The Angels will be Davis’s fifth team in two years. Those teams include the San Francisco Giants, the then-Oakland A’s, the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles. The Yankees acquired Davis after Anthony Rizzo broke an arm last June to play first base against left-handed pitching. The plan was for him to share time at first with rookie Ben Rice.

The New York Mets were tied to a stout first baseman to replace Pete Alonso in a recent mock trade. Newsweek’s Drew VonScio recently formulated a mock deal that would send Baltimore Orioles slugger Ryan Mountcastle to the Mets in exchange for righty Jose Butto and valued prospect Dom Hamel. VonScio said this about the deal: