Something has gone awry when a team’s highest-paid player being in its starting lineup counts as a real news story. So it goes for the Orioles and Chris Davis. The exile is over, at least for now. Davis, who has not played since June 11, is back in the lineup on Friday night against the Braves.
Before this extended benching, one phrase manager Buck Showalter used to describe the situation was that the O’s were “pretty deep in the barrel” and that nothing up to that point had worked. Is a week-plus of apparent swing doctoring with hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh and/or front office quasi-heir Brady Anderson going to be what does the trick to pull Davis out from the doldrums of a .