We Still Like Ike

A blog for Ike Davis, first baseman, Team Israel

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Ike Davis

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i don’t know what to say

genius

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Ike Davis: Announces retirement

Ike Davis: Announces retirement

Welp.

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MY GUY.

This was coming into tonight’s game. He’s already got another single.

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Ike Davis signed by Dodgers to minor league contract

The Dodgers added another player with big-league experience by signing first baseman Ike Davis to a minor-league contract with a non-roster invitation to spring training.

Davis, 29, figures to be injury insurance behind Adrian Gonzalez.

Davis hit 32 home runs and drove in 90 runs for the New York Mets in 2012. Since then, however, he has bounced from the Mets to the Pirates to the A’s to the Rangers to the Yankees, combining to hit .222 with a .681 OPS and 23 home runs in about 900 at-bats scattered over the past four seasons.

Last year, Davis went 3 for 14 in eight games with the Yankees, spending most of the season in Triple-A where he hit .248 with nine home runs in 65 games.

Davis is one of nine former big-leaguers among the Dodgers’ 22 non-roster invitees for spring training.

–Bill Plunkett

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Good luck wherever you end up, Ike!

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Ike Davis and Cody Decker chat during practice at the Baptist Village sport complex near Petah Tikva.

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Photo: @ballparkguide

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Photo: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images

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Ike Davis (left) and Josh Satin, both former Mets, are playing for the Israeli team in the World Baseball Classic qualifying tournament in Brooklyn. Photo: Anthony J. Causi

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Ike Davis played for Team Israel during the World Baseball Classic qualifiers in September. (Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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Ike Davis had an RBI single for Israel (Photo by Tomasso de Rosa)

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Israel’s Ike Davis, who played in five seasons for the Mets and eight games for the Yankees, running to first base in a 5-2 win over Britain. Credit Ryan C. Jones for The New York Times

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Ike Davis, Back in New York, Leads Israel Past Britain in World Baseball Classic Qualifier

A plush toy — the Mensch on a Bench — sitting among the players in Israel’s dugout during a World Baseball Classic qualifying game held at MCU Park in Coney Island.CreditRyan C. Jones for The New York Times

Davis found himself greeted enthusiastically by fans in New York who said they missed him.

“People still embrace me here,” said Davis, who slugged 32 homers for the Mets in 2012. “I don’t know why that’s true, but I appreciate it.”

Another former Met, Josh Satin, also was surprised to discover that he had fans.

“When I was playing for the Mets, it was Ike and I — we were the Jews in New York,” Satin said. “I was just a two-year utility player, but I felt like the city gravitated toward me. A kid would come up to say hello, and I’d say: ‘How do you recognize me? I play once a month.’”

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