How strong does a person have to be to hit 38 home runs in a season, while playing most of the year with a dislocated thumb in the top hand on his bat? As strong as Chris Davis, who performed that very feat during the 2016 season. Davis revealed the nature of the injury for the first time in his media availability during Saturday’s Orioles FanFest.
That Davis was hurt is not news on its own. A mystery hand injury was alluded to vaguely and repeatedly by the cadre of Orioles beat writers over the course of the 2016 season.