Just eight months ago, as captured in that lead art above, Matt Davidson had hit three homers on Opening Day in Kansas City, Avisaíl García was poised to prove his outstanding 2017 wasn’t a fluke, and the Chicago White Sox led the AL Central.
From there, things took a turn. Davidson not only failed to keep up his 486-homer pace, he basically failed to hit against anyone in baseball outside of Kansas City,
e.g.
Matt Davidson 2018
7 games at Kauffman Stadium: .462/.563/1.308, 7 HR, 12 RBI, 5 BB, 4 K
116 games everywhere else: .