Jody Davis (baseball)
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Davis (right) defending home plate for the Cubs
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Born: November 12, 1956 Gainesville, Georgia |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 21, 1981, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
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| May 13, 1990, for the Atlanta Braves | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .245 | ||
| Home runs | 127 | ||
| Runs batted in | 490 | ||
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Jody Richard Davis (born November 12, 1956) is an American former professional baseball player and current minor league coach. He was a catcher in the Major League Baseball with the Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves from 1981 to 1990. He is currently a hitting coach for the Louisville Bats in the Cincinnati Reds organization.
Davis was selected by the New York Mets in the third round of the 1976 Major League Baseball Draft. In 1979, the Mets traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals and in 1980 he was drafted from the Cardinals by the Chicago Cubs in the Rule 5 draft.
Davis made his major league debut on April 21, 1981 and became the Cubs starting catcher as a rookie. In the earlier years of his career, Davis showed promise on offense and became a fan favorite among Cubs fans. In his second full season, 1983, he set what would turn out to be career highs with 151 games played, a batting average of .271 and 24 home runs. He also had 84 RBI in the same season. In 1984, he set a career high with 94 RBI and earned his first All-Star selection, as the Cubs won the National League Eastern Division title, their first title of any kind since 1945. In the only post-season appearance of his career, Davis hit .389 with 2 doubles, 2 home runs, 6 RBI and an .833 slugging percentage in the 1984 National League Championship Series as the Cubs were defeated by the San Diego Padres in a five-game series.
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