Yes, 300 at bats can be misleading at times. So look at his 3 year minor league career.

Back? Alright, now we’ve established that he had an absolute monster minor league career leading all prospects in HR/RBI from the beginning of 2007 until his mid season 2008 callup. Never hit below .277 for any stop, with a .302 career line.

Davis is legit. Votto is too, but there is no reason to project davis to hit sub 250 and 20/75.

Also kind of silly to try to act like he only had a hot start when he hit .355 in september. Only 3 homeruns, but its not his power thats being quesitoned is it? He had 2 good months out of 3, thats… pretty normal.

This was a real tight debate for us. In fact one of the 3 core WaiverSharks writers was leaning towards Votto, but the ridiculous display of power that Chris Davis showed to all fields last season persuaded him to the dark side.:) Be certain we will be routing equally hard for Joey Votto, a Toronto native, to have a breakout season - which if his hot spring is any indication - it’s going to happen! The ‘Power Rangers’ K’s could definitely be his achilles heal, but his brute strength could end up providing something special. We can hardly wait to see it all unfold in ‘09!

Votto on the other hand played a full year and really hit his stroke in September after other teams had been seeing him for a full year. Davis still has too much to prove to me to consider him my big time first baseman- Votto is the safer pick. I’d rather take a consistency king like Garret Atkins in the 6th round and then gamble on Votto a couple rounds later.