Davis Schneider

Schneider bears an uncanny resemblance to the character of the same last name from the '70s sitcom One Day At a Time. This Schneider came out of the gate hot with seven homers, 25 runs and 29 RBIs through the first two months of the season as the Jays' offense was struggling to scrape together rallies. The league started figuring him out early in the summer, and Schneider never got out of that hole, as he hit .159/.236/.274 over the final 280 plate appearances Toronto continued to give him, as he hit seven homers, scored 24 times and drove in 19 from June first until the end of the season. Schneider hit below .200 against all pitch types, and xBA validated those struggles, because the league found the holes in his swing and attacked them with authority. He was in the bottom 15th percentile for swing-and-miss and bottom fifth percentile for strikeout rate, which is not a great mixture for someone not providing enough offense. Perhaps his 2023 time in Triple-A gave him delusions of grandeur, because he has since turned into a three true outcome player: a walk, a strikeout or an out. He is limited defensively as well, and is not even a clean platoon fit because he has struggled against lefties. Read Past Outlooks