Davis, Rajai

- Outfield, Oakland A's

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Baseball Player Info

AL
Age	30
Bats or Throws	Right

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Rickey says Rajai is stealing 80.

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Reviewed by SteveP
March 01, 2010
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Last updated: March 01, 2010

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If the only thing that counted in baseball was hitting, Rajai Davis might have hit the major leagues in 2005 as a full-timer and we would have a very different profile here. Instead Davis hit .384 with a .994 OPS in 2002, .308 with a .799 OPS (40 steals) in 2003, .314 with a .812 OPS in 2004 (57 steals) and finally got out of A ball. And it's not that he strikes out or doesn't walk because he makes great contact and has a career .375 OBP in the minors. His major league OBP is artificially low because so much of the time he has come in defensively or as a pinch-hitter or pinch-runner. Situations where few hitters get on base regularly. In his two more or less real shots at playing in 2007 for the Giants last season and last season he got on at .363 and .360 respectively.

Rickey says Rajai is good, and the thing is that Rickey is right. Maybe not 80 steals right. .285-85-5-65-45. 525ABs

Positives / Upside	80 is a reach, but he does have 93 steals in 808 major league at-bats, which would be 57 in 500 ABs. Do we have your attention? .300-100-5-65-45SB. 575ABs
Negatives / Downside	When you look at someone like Rajai and you see those 44 doubles and a good number of triples you are instructed to nod your head knowingly and say, this is not real power. And then you look at Rajai's Konerko-esque 27 and you stop nodding your head and start shaking it. Rajai's power game is that of Punch and Judy after Punch left to go solo. .280-70-5-50-35SB. 450ABs
Recommendation	Buy at cost
Draft Position	166