Darren O’Day, before he left the All Star Game, told his fellow Oriole relief pitchers that he needed to do some spy work on Kansas City Royal All Star Wade Davis: “I’m going to sniff around Wade Davis when he’s warming up because we want to see what he’s doing.” What Davis is doing, according to New York Times baseball writer Tyler Kepner, “almost defies explanation.” From Sept. 13, 2013, through the All Star game, Davis pitched in 117 regular season and post-season games. His ERA was a microscopic 0.80. It seemed obvious why other pitchers and batters wanted a clue at the mid-summer classic as to how Davis was pulling this off.
Royals Wade Davis: New Beast of the Bullpen
