There’s still plenty of time for the Mets to trade Davis, but let’s assume they end up keeping him. My hunch is that unless he hits the living daylights out of the ball this Spring, he’ll likely end up as part of a platoon with (Hail) Satin.
Given their lefty/righty splits, there’s some potential for tremendous production from first base for the Mets this season. Here are their career splits:
Satin vs LHP: .862 OPS – .152 ISO – .376 wOBA – .467 SLG – 145 wRC+
Davis vs RHP: .827 OPS – .215 ISO – .357 wOBA – .471 SLG – 127 wRC+
In my opinion, if Davis gets all the starts at first base against right-handed pitching, it will be Lucas Duda who stands to lose the most playing time.
It will make for a very unorthodox bench to carry two left-handed hitting first basemen in Davis and Duda, especially when you consider that neither can play any other infield positions.
Satin, on the other hand, can play third base to backup Wright and even play second base in a pinch. Additionally, he’s been putting in a lot of work in the outfield this offseason to increase his versatility and thus his value to the Mets.
I doubt the Mets will ever entertain the thought of Duda in the outfield again after a failed experiment that really shook his confidence and degraded his production at the plate. His role in 2014 is very cloudy to say the least.
But to answer your question, no matter how first base ultimately shakes out, rest assured that Satin is a lock for at least a bench spot if not a more significant role.
I wouldn’t have believed it in November but it’s looking more and more like Tejada at short and Davis at first. How can that be? Who thinks they’ll still be there in July?
Joe I know you heard me say this before give Flores a chance to play first base in spring training and let Hernandez work with him or at least try platooning him instead of Satin?
Flores has more pop in his bat than Satin and if he’s given a shot their he will be their
full time first baseman by may or june! I like Satin but he will make a good bench player
not a starter! The excuse for not moving Murphy to first to make room for Flores or EY
is Murphy doesn’t have enough power to play their but Satin does? I wonder if Flores
played first base at all in winter ball? If not he should have but either way Flores will hit over 300 and knock in 70-90 rbi’s playing full time and using last years #’s is better than
Satin, Davis or Duda!