Davis Schneider #36

Davis Schneider...At the Perfect Game WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla. in 2016, received Most Valuable Hitter honors and led his summer squad, the Dirtbags, to a title win...Named a Rawlings Perfect Game’s Northeast Region All-High School Senior first team All-Star prior to the 2017 season...Went on to hit .444 that year with 16 doubles, setting a single season record for Eastern High School...Established the Vikings mark for most career hits with 138...Committed to play at Rutgers University after high school (Eastern High School in Voorhees, NJ), but jumped to pro ball instead after being selected by the Blue Jays in the 28th round of the 2017 draft.

2023

His 1.315 OPS through his first 25 career games was the highest mark by any player in MLB history in the modern era (since 1901)...Selected to the Major League roster on Aug. 4 and made his MLB debut that night at BOS...Became the fourth Blue Jay ever to hit a home run in his first Major League at-bat, joining Al Woods (April 7, 1977 vs. CWS), Junior Felix (May 4, 1989 vs. CAL), and J.P. Arencibia (Aug. 7, 2010 vs. TB)...Finished 2-for-5...Went 3-for-3 with a walk on Aug. 5 at BOS, becoming the fourth player in club history with five hits in his first two career games...Finished 4-for-5 with his second home run, four RBI and a HBP on Aug. 6 at BOS...Became the third player ever with 9+ hits in his first three career MLB games (Nap Lajoie - 10H in 1901; Coaker Triplett - 9H in 1938) and the only one to do so with multiple home runs...Hit a game-winning home run on Aug. 19 at CIN, breaking a 3-3 tie with a solo shot in the fifth...Was his third homer in his ninth career game, the fourth Blue Jay to do so...Went 3-for-3 with a double, a home run, a walk, three RBI, and three runs scored on Aug. 26 vs. CLE...Joined Carlos Delgado (five in 1994) as the only players in team history with four homers in their first 10 career games...Among Blue Jays in their first 10 MLB games, ranked second in home runs (four), second in times on base (21), T-3rd in RBI (nine), T-3rd in runs scored (eight) and fourth in hits (14)...Doubled and connected for his fifth longball on Aug. 27 vs. CLE...Became the third rookie in franchise history to homer in three consecutive games, joining Teoscar Hernández (Sept. 22-24, 2017) and Danny Jansen (July 2-4, 2019)...Drilled his sixth homer of the year as part of a 2-for-5 night on Aug. 29 vs. WAS...Was his fourth blast in the last five games and his sixth multi-hit effort of the year...Went 1-for-2 with his seventh bomb and a pair of walks on Sept. 6 at OAK...His seven homers trailed only Carlos Delgado (8 in 1994) for the most homers by a Blue Jay in a player’s first 20 career contests...Reached base safely all four times with two doubles and two walks on Sept. 8 vs. KC...Went 2-for-4 with his 10th double and eighth home run on Sept. 12 vs. TEX...Marked his eighth multi-hit game and fifth with multiple extra-base hits...Was named to Toronto’s AL Wild Card roster but did not play...Appeared in 87 games for Triple-A Buffalo, batting .275 with 43 extra-base hits, 64 RBI, and 72 walks for a .416 OBP and a .969 OPS...At the time of his promotion to the Blue Jays on Aug. 4, led all International League batters in walks while sixth in home runs (21) and eighth in OPS.

2022

Spent parts of the 2022 season at High-A Vancouver, Double-A New Hampshire, and Triple-A Buffalo...Over 113 games between the three levels, combined to hit .253 (97-for-383) with 22 doubles, 4 triples, 16 home runs, and 56 RBI while walking 65 times (.823 OPS)...Made appearances at second base (46), third base (3), left field (46), right field (4), pitcher (1), and designated hitter (17)...Combined to commit just four errors on the year, posting a .984 fielding percentage...Named the Northwest League Player of the Week for June 6-12, batting .478 (11-for-23) with five doubles, two homers, six RBI, and five runs scored...Hit safely in all six games and had multiple knocks on three occasions, raising his season batting average by 55 points.