CINCINNATI -- A's manager Bob Melvin knows how productive Khris Davis can be -- if he can just stay out of the way of the baseball.
"He's never going to say no," Melvin said. "He wants to play."
Davis was held out of Saturday's lineup against the Reds with a sore left elbow. He was hit by a pitch by Anthony DeSclafani in the third inning of Friday's loss. Davis was sidelined for the A's two-game series against the Brewers earlier in the week, experiencing numbness in the fingers of his left hand after being hit by a pitch last Saturday at Houston.