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Davis missed one month of action with an undisclosed injury and had played six rehab games. The 24-year-old has slashed .231/.359/.446 with eight home runs, nine stolen bases and a 26:38 BB:K over 37 games this season during his time with Springfield. The 2023 first-round pick will be getting his first taste of the Pacific Coast League.
Davis launched a 423-foot blast off of Trey Gibson in the third inning before adding a more modest 376-foot shot to the opposite field in the seventh. It was the first multi-homer spring training game for a Cardinals player since 2023. The former first-round pick is coming off a disappointing 2025 season, having slashed just .242/.358/.353 with 10 home runs in 113 games at Double-A Springfield. Davis is likely headed back to Springfield for the start of the 2026 season.
The 22-year-old was promoted to Peoria from Single-A Palm Beach at the end of July, and he'll move up another level five weeks later. Davis posted a .296/.372/.443 slash line with three homers in 30 games at High-A and should have a chance to get to Triple-A in 2025 if he continues to hit.
A first-round pick in the 2023 First-Year Player Draft, Davis really struggled at Palm Beach last year and for the first two months of this season, but he got going this June and has put up a .917 OPS with six home runs since the start of that month. He'll now be tested against a higher level of competition.
A lefty slugger from Arizona, Davis is a tough prospect to evaluate, as he didn't look like a first-round talent prior to really cutting down the strikeouts this spring. His impressive raw tools made him a highly-ranked prospect as a prep in 2020, but he went undrafted in the shortened pandemic draft and made it to campus. Davis's worst showing to date was a 15-game run in the Cape Cod League last summer, in which he hit .212/.379/.250 with two doubles, zero home runs and a 16:13 K:BB in 66 plate appearances with a wood bat. He followed up that lackluster performance with a .362/.489/.742 slash line, 21 home runs and more walks (43) than strikeouts (40) as a junior. A chiseled 6-foot-1, 216 pounds, Davis has a max exit velocity of 117 mph and a 90th percentile exit velocity of 108 mph, which are elite marks for any hitting prospect. Davis gets graded as an above-average runner on his public scouting reports, but he only attempted four steals in 147 career games for the Wildcats. His monster power is not up for debate, and his plus arm could be a weapon in an outfield corner, it's just a question of how real his tool gains were this spring.