Davis Schneider was called up in early August 2023 and started amazing, going 9 for 13 with 2 home runs in his first three games. After that, he was up and down from there.<\/p>\n
2024 did not go well, he hit .191\/.282\/.343.<\/p>\n
I doubted that he would make the team in 2025. But then he has an excellent spring training, hitting .333\/.353\/.633 with two home runs in 30 at-bats.<\/p>\n
Standard Batting Table Age WAR G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GIDP HBP SH SF IBB 26 1.3 82 227 188 33 44 5 0 11 31 3 1 36 60 .234 .361 .436 .797 119 82 4 2 0 1 0 <\/p>\n
Baseball Reference has him at 1.3 WAR (better than the 0.0 last year, FanGraphs also has him at 1.3, giving the Jays a value of $10.4 million.<\/p>\n
Davis had a .351 wOBA ( last year, .277) and a 127 wRC+ (up from 80 last year).<\/p>\n
His BABIP was .280 (.257 last year).<\/p>\n
Davis\u2019s walk rate was 15.9% (up from 10.4), and his strikeout rate was 26.4% (down from 31.7).<\/p>\n
His line drive rate was down (17.1% down from 20.5). The ground ball rate was up (30.2% from 29.8). And fly ball rate was up (52.7% from 49.6). 16.2% of his fly balls left the park (up from 10.2).<\/p>\n
Soft contact was up (17.1% from 14.3). Hard contact was down (30.2% from 33.7).<\/p>\n
Davis hit right-handers (.259\/.384\/.531) better than left-handers (.215\/.344\/.364). That\u2019s two years in a row of rather extreme reverse splits, not what you\u2019d want to see from a guy we used in a platoon role.<\/p>\n
He was much better at home (.281\/.420\/.511) than on the road (.192\/.304\/.333) for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n
And, he hit slightly better in the second half (.245\/.373\/.436) than in the first half (.218\/.344\/.436).<\/p>\n
April: .067\/.333\/.067 with 0 home runs, 5 walks and 8 strikeouts in 10 games, 5 starts.June: .257\/.395\/.400 with 1 home run, 7 walks and 10 strikeouts in 14 games, 11 starts.July: .229\/.351\/.500 with 4 home runs, 9 walks and 14 strikeouts in 21 games, 16 starts.August: .327\/.377\/.673 with 5 home runs, 4 walks and 16 strikeouts in 19 games, 11 starts.September: .171\/.340\/.244 with 1 home run, 11 walks and 12 strikeouts in 18 games, 17 starts.<\/p>\n
Yeah, he\u2019s a streak hitter.<\/p>\n
With RISP he hit .227\/.397\/.386.<\/p>\n
In high-leverage spots: .240\/.367\/.280 with no home runs.<\/p>\n
Low leverage: .280\/.398\/.591 with 9 home runs.<\/p>\n
Left field: 59 games. 347 innings. 2 errors, .977 PA (league average .985). Fangraphs has him at a -1 outs above average.Second base: 24 games. No errors. Fangraphs had him at a 0 outs above average.He also played one inning at third.<\/p>\n
FanGraphs has him at a 0.3 runs compared to the average baserunner. He stole 4 bases, caught 1 time.<\/p>\n
Where Davis his in the batting order in games he started:<\/p>\n
1st: 7 games, .250\/.333\/.542.2nd: 8 games, .250\/.379\/.375.5th: 8 games, .190\/.346\/190.6th: 14 games, .195\/.327\/.439.7th: 13 games, .229\/.349\/.400.8th: 6 games, .316\/.480\/.684.9th: 4 games, .273\/.385\/.500.<\/p>\n
The Jays were 39-21 in games he started. His longest hitting streak was 4 games. Longest on base streak, 12 games. Longest without a home run 14 games. Longest hitless streak, 9 games to start the season.<\/p>\n
Postseason Batting Table Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS GIDP AL 2 8 6 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 .333 .500 .500 1.000 0 AL 2 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .200 .000 .200 0 WS 4 11 10 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 5 .200 .273 .500 .773 1 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com<\/a>: View Original Table<\/a> Davis was a usual utility player. If he had normal splits, he\u2019s be more valuable to the team, or if the team leaned into his reverse splits. But the reverse splits might be a sample size thing, but it has been two seasons in a row.<\/p>\n Defensively, he seems pretty much league average in the outfield or second.<\/p>\n He\u2019ll be 27 next season, moving into his prime years. If the Jays sign Kyle Tucker, it will be hard to get Davis at-bats. If they sign both him and Bo Bichette, I don\u2019t see how Schneider gets much playing time (and he\u2019d have an uphill battle to make the active roster). Unfortunately for him (but not for the club), he has options left.<\/p>\n He\u2019s in a bit of a tough spot, playing on a team that can add free agents and has a couple of guys, Clement and Barger, who play (more or less) the same spots that he does and who the team likes better.<\/p>\n But, he\u2019s beat long odds before. No one considered him a prospect when he was in the minors. I didn\u2019t expect he would make the active roster this year after a poor 2024. After his slow start, he was sent down to Buffalo, and I figured we wouldn\u2019t see him again. But he keeps proving me wrong.<\/p>\n He\u2019s got 252 MLB games under his belt. Four years ago I\u2019d never have guessed that would happen.<\/p>\n Guys with power get lots of chances; he\u2019ll continue to get them. I\u2019m not sure if it will be with the Jays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davis Schneider was called up in early August 2023 and started amazing, going 9 for 13 with 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82,149220],"class_list":{"0":"post-341189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-analysis-and-commentary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Generated 12\/12\/2025.<\/p>\n