28
2012
Ike Davis Looks Like He’s Returned To Form
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Ike Davis is showing signs of getting it, both at the plate and with his demeanor.
During yesterday’s game in Chicago, Davis apologized to plate umpire Manny Gonzalez for inadvertently touching him with his glove in a dispute at first base the night before. Davis was ejected, will be fined and could be suspended for at least a game.
”I just told him I’m sorry for touching him with my glove, and I didn’t mean to touch him,” Davis told reporters in Chicago. “And he said, ‘No worries. I know you weren’t doing it maliciously.’ It was good. He didn’t seem like he was too upset at me. And, obviously, I had forgotten about it.”
In the first couple years of his career, Davis was developing a reputation with the umpires as a complainer. He’s calmed down considerably in that regard, and yesterday was a positive step.
Gonzalez missed the call, and hasn’t acknowledged as such. Nonetheless, umpires do appreciate it when a player apologizes. It shows signs of maturity and this could go a long way in helping Davis.
Who knows? The next borderline pitch he might get.
With a three-hit game during Wednesday afternoon’s 17-1 win over the Cubs, Davis finally climbed over the .200 mark for the season at .201.
“He has hit the ball very well, especially the last 10 games,” said Mets manager Terry Collins.
Davis blasted a three-run homer in yesterday’s Mets slugfest. A return to form would do wonders for the Mets chances at that wild card in the second half.
About the Author: John Delcos
I am an active member of the BBWAA and have covered Major League Baseball in several capacities for over 20 years, including ten in New York working the Mets' and Yankees' beat. I covered the Baltimore Orioles for eight years and the Cleveland Indians before that. I currently serve as an editor and senior staff writer for Mets Merized Online. Follow me on Twitter @jdelcos.
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one thing is for sure we do need a hitting Ike Davis! we need everyone this year and really thats what is special about this team!
Ike Davis has had these 2-3 little spurts of looking good before and each time he went back to his bad habits.
If you’ve been watching him this whole year, you’d know he’s a different hitter now than he was earlier in the season. He’s not swinging at as many bad pitches, he’s making better contact with the ball, and he’s done all of that for far longer than he had at any other point this year. Obviously he’s still going to slump at times, but it’s safe to say the worst is over.
I guess you’re not noticing the breaking balls that he once swung and missed at he’s now hitting, kind of like the HR he hit yesterday. That was a breaking pitch he would lunge and swing and miss at earlier.
He looks like a completely different person up there now and believe it or not can still wind up with 30 HRs, 100 RBI this season.
He’s back.
Bayonne, Careful… Lurking is that guy who made that article about him going down to triple A
I also felt he should have been sent down. I am grateful to T.C. for showing me the error of my ways.
Many thought that he should be sent to the Minors, not just here on MMO either.
Are we going to make more of who thought this, then the fact that “Great he’s coming around, it benefits the team and the fan base?
This is why we are posting opinions on a site and not actual GM’s. Not sure everyone got that memo though.
Gotta run, my tuna casserole is burning………………
Any more news on whether he will be suspended or not after the ejection the other night?
“Many thought that he should be sent to the Minors, not just here on MMO either. ”
Not me….
And Metsie not a single one of those people will give you credit for writing a Fan Post that flew in the face of what everybody was saying. Even I was ready to succumb to the fact that he may have to go to the minors for awhile.
It took a lot of guts and a lot of faith and belief in an individual (and some actual, good old fashioned BASEBALL KNOWLEDGE) to write a post like that while he was deep into his struggles. A lot of straw-hat, beer-drinking, paisley shirt-wearing, upper deck gorillas were mocking your post. As you know you take it from where it comes.
Not ONE of those people will give you any props for that.
LOL Bay well it’s more important that they KNOW I was right than admit it to me! LOL
You are the ONLY one to admit you may have been too rash and for what it’s worth I don’t blame anyone for wanting to send him down.
But I could see what his issue was almost a month before he corrected it.
And it was all due to missing all that time vs MLB pitching.
It was all going to fast for him.
Took Beltran two and a half months to get back up to speed and oddly enough thats just about how long it took Ike davis as well!
This is why if you think the Minors can help the time to do it is before you bring them up to the big leagues.
This would apply to Jason Bay as well.
Guy gets hurt and misses significant time you don’t bring him back up after 5 rehab games you leave them there till they get up to speed and then challenge them at the MLB level where the speed increases.
It works for Pitchers as well which is why I question why Ramirez was brought back as fast as he was when he had hardly showed anyone he was ready to face MLB batters yet.
So should Sandy get any credit for not pulling the trigger on the demotion?
Yes Sandy should get credit for not sending him down
Good job Bay, thanks for answering. Now back to his poor job of assembling a pen LOL.
I was ready to send his butt down by end of May…
I was one as well that thought he should be sent down. I was obviously wrong. I tip my straw-hat to Metsie while trying not to spill my beer over my nice paisley shirt =D
The good thing about spilling on paisley is who the hell would notice?
Weren’t you the same person who was comparing Ike to Justin Smoak when he wasn’t hitting?
Oh you mean Joe D – the guy that runs the site?
I wonder if he’s a paisley shirt wearing, beer guzzling, straw hat wearing, upper deck gorilla that doesn’t know the game either?
http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/05/enough-is-enough-send-ike-down-already.html
Here’s the actual quote you FAT HORSE – and you wonder why you get so much flack here – BECAUSE you don’t know what the HELL you’re doing or saying.
“A lot of straw-hat, beer-drinking, paisley shirt-wearing, upper deck gorillas were mocking your post. As you know you take it from where it comes.”
Did Joe D comment on Metsie’s post? and make fun of him? NO.
Joe D was like me in that we were wondering that maybe Ike should go down to the minors. 2 different things and of course you even mucked that up
You probably messed up that tuna casserole and I’m probably even a better cook than you to boot. Stay the HELL away from me because you know NOTHING, you contribute NOTHING, you add NOTHING, and all u do is react to people you don’t like.
That is Kay’s sole activity on this site and NOTHING else. All she does is react to people she doesn’t like. What a disgrace.
There were over 200 Comments and for the record Joe D wasn’t one of them!
Having watched Ike struggle most of the season nothing makes me happier than seeing him hopefully indeed be past what was probably his worst slump at any point in his baseball career. I’m happy to see the Mets hung with him despite a valid argument if to send him down would be best.
To show just how bad Ike struggled over his 1st 58 games Ike hit 5/HR 22/RBI 15/R while batting .167/BA. Over his last 14 games Ike has hit the same amout of hr’s and nearly the same amout of ebi’s and runs 5/HR 19/RBI 11/R while batting .333/BA.
amount* of hr’s and nearly the same amout of rbi’s* and runs 5/HR 19/RBI 11/R while batting .333/BA.
They showed a good split screen of Ike Then and Now and it showed what I had been saying all along…His timing was way off and most likely the result of everything looking too fast for him due to his missed time seeing MLB pitching.
The split of the then showed he would start his swing even before the ball had left the pitcher’s hand. Which is why he was lunging and missing badly.
The Now showed he is waiting a starting his swing later and as a result he is hitting the ball all over.