Knock Knock. Knock Knock Knock.

After watching Chris Davis in Frisco over the last month of the 2007 season, I told the DMN's Evan Grant that Chris Davis would be ready for Arlington by the end of July. 

I was off by about a month. 

One of the reasons I was so high on Davis was that he adjusted so quickly to Texas League play after his promotion from Bakersfield.   And now, 18 games into his Pacific Coast League career, he's already proven that he's too much hitter for that league as well.

The 22 year old Davis is ready for Arlington right now.

Davis has started 17 games for Oklahoma.  He's hit safely in 14 of them.  He's delivered multiple hits in six of them.   He's hitting .323 / .400 / .597 / .997 -- for an OPS higher than the figure he posted in Frisco.   His BB/K ratio for Oklahoma is 0.47 and his BB/PA ratio is 1.00 -- both better figures than he posted in Frisco this year.

The difficulty, of course, is that the Rangers already have two left-hand hitting first baseman on the roster -- Frank Catalanotto and, any day now (until he's hit with a raging case of fibromyalgia, as seems certain at this point) Hank Blalock.