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BALTIMORE (AP) — Orioles first baseman Chris Davis has evidently put an end to one of the worst seasons in major league history.Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said Friday that Davis likely won’t play in any of the Orioles’ final four games.Davis isn’t injured. He’s just had enough of a miserable season that’s gotten worse down the stretch.If he doesn’t play this weekend Dellin Betances Jersey , Davis will finish with a .168 batting average, lowest by a qualifier in big league history. The previous record was .179, by Rob Deer in 1991 and Dan Uggla in 2013.Davis lifted his batting average to .180 on Sept 5. Since then, he’s 1 for 37 with 20 strikeouts.Approached by a reporter before Friday night’s game against Houston, Davis declined to comment.Davis has 16 homers, 49 RBIs and 192 strikeouts in 128 games for a team that owns the worst record in the majors.The two-time major league home run leader is in the midst of a seven-year Matt Holliday Jersey , $161 million contract he signed after the 2015 season. With their rebuilding effort paying off sooner than anticipated, the Atlanta Braves clinched their first National League East title since 2013 with a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies Saturday.MLB MLBNL East, you鈥檝e been chopped. The Braves have #CLINCHED the division. osameRp6lrAtlanta Braves BravesChamps.#ChopOn 1guqoQ1GjcThis will be Atlanta's first trip to the postseason since 2013, which was also the last time the franchise posted a winning record.The past four seasons of player development at the MLB level and in the minors paid off huge for the Braves in 2018.Coming into the year, Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA projection system (h/t Talking Chop's Kris Willis) had the Braves pegged as a 76-86 team. The offense was projected to score the second-fewest runs in the NL East (704) and allow 757 runs.Instead, the Braves entered Saturday ranked second in theNL with 733 runs scored and sixth with a cumulative 3.80 ERA.Rookie sensation Ronald Acuna Jr.leads the team with 26 homers and a .564 slugging percentage. Ozzie Albies was named to the National League All-Star team in July and has23 homers at the age of 21.FanGraphs' Jay Jaffenoted in August thatAcuna was getting better as the season moved along:"Before the All-Star break http://www.yankeesfanproshop.com/authentic-austin-romine-jersey , he hit .249/.304/.438 for a 99 wRC+ with a 6.5% walk rate and a 30.4% strikeout rate; since then, he's hit .344/.410/.767 for a 210 wRC+鈥攈e'sfourth in the majorsin the last two of those numbers since the break鈥攚ith a 9.0% walk rate and 25.0% strikeout rate. His K-BB% has dropped from 23.9% to 16.0%, his outside-the-zone swing rate from 32.2% to 24.4%, and his swinging strike rate from 12.4% to 9.9%."The Braves' mix of young talent with established veterans, like Freddie Freeman and Nick Markakis, turned out to be a winning formula that has the franchise thinking of sustained success for years into the future.Even as the Braves' long-term potential looks to be high Reggie Jackson Jersey , their sights are set on winning a World Series in 2018. This group has defied expectations all year, so the other NL playoff teams must be on their games if they want to keep up with them.