To say the Baltimore Orioles are having a dismal season is an understatement.

To say Orioles slugger Chris Davis is having a dismal season is a criminalunderstatement.Entering play Tuesday Chris Tillman Jersey , the Orioles are 34-78, buried in last place in the American League East. They traded superstar Manny Machado and ace reliever Zach Britton and officially initiated a painful, likely protracted rebuild.At least the Machado and Britton deals netted some prospects who offer a glimmer of hope for the future. Davis, on the other hand, is an albatross the O's will be forced to bear for years to come.Here's one painful number: .161. That's Davis' batting average entering Tuesday.As Jared Diamond noted in the Wall Street Journal, the low-water mark for batting title-qualifying hitters since 1900 is .179 and that has been "achieved" only twice Rob Deer of the Detroit Tigers in 1991 and Dan Uggla of the Atlanta Braves in 2013. Take a bow, gentlemen.Davis is on pace to knock Deer and Uggla out of the ignoble record books. They should send him a gift basket or something.Scott Taetsch/Getty ImagesHere's another painful number: $21.1 million. That's how much the Orioles are paying Davis this season, per Spotrac. It's also how much they'll pay him every season through 2022. Davis turned 32 in March. That's not typically an age when guys turn the ship around.Here's a painful question: Is Davis having the worst season in MLB history? If the answer isn't "yes," it's "probably."In addition to his abysmal batting average, he owns a .247 on-base percentage, last among qualified hitters.Even his power has evaporated. His .304 slugging percentage leads only the Cincinnati Reds' Billy Hamilton and Kansas City Royals' Alcides Escobar among qualifiers. And he's struck out in 34.7 percent of his plate appearances, better than only the Texas Rangers' Joey Gallo.Not surprisingly, he's been worth minus-2.1 WAR by FanGraphs' calculation, which means he's cost the Orioles more than two wins compared to a random minor leaguer earning the league minimum.In June, FanGraphs' Dan Szymborski starkly highlighted Davis' WAR futility:Dan Szymborski DSzymborskiIts pretty frightening to be on an quot;on-pace-forquot; the worst season of all-time by a large margin when youre nearing mid-June.Chris Daviss on-pace-for in fWAR would rank him 81892 out of 81892 player-seasons since 1901.By NEARLY A FULL WIN.For a player earning in excess of $20 million, that's depressingly, brain-meltingly astounding.The Orioles benched Davis in June in an ostensible effort to get his swing right. No such luck.We could keep going, stacking horrible stat upon horrible stat to build a pyramid of awful stats, but you get the picture. There's bad http://www.oriolesfanproshop.com/authentic-j.j.-hardy-jersey , there's ugly and then there's Chris Davis in 2018.Once upon a time, Davis was a valuable player. His game was always relateively one-dimensional, but he led baseball with 53 home runs, 138 RBI and 370 total bases in 2013 and finished third in AL MVP voting. In 2015, he again paced MLB with 47 homers, posted a .923 OPS and picked up stray MVP votes. After that 2015 campaign, the Orioles handed Davis a franchise-record seven-year, $161 million contract. They hoped the dingers would keep flowing and their contention window would remain open.Neither of those things happened, and now the Orioles are literally paying the price. They're buried in the basement. They're giving Davis superstar dollars to swing like a scrub.Patrick Semansky/Associated PressThe red flags were evident. Davis hit a scant .215 last season with a .309 OBP. Yes, he tacked on 26 home runs, but the signs of decline echoed loudly.Now, Davis is hearing boos from the Camden Yard faithful. Who can blame them?"I understand their frustration," Davis told reporters in early July. "I know exactly what I'm capable of and what I've done in the past. I know that the standard is high and I haven't been playing that well."Talk about a criminal understatement.Talk about a dismal season.Talk about a disaster. All statistics and contract information current entering play Tuesday and courtesy of FanGraphs and Baseball Reference. CLEVELAND — Victor Martinez’s first major league at bat came at age 23 as a member of the Cleveland Indians on Sept. 10, 2002, in what was known as Jacobs Field.On Sunday, Martinez, 39, will take his last at-bat at what is known as Progressive Field in the final meeting of the season between the Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians.Martinez, a five-time All-Star and runner-up to Mike Trout in the 2014 MVP voting http://www.oriolesfanproshop.com/authentic-j.j.-hardy-jersey , is retiring at the end of the season. Martinez spent the first eight years of his major league career as a catcher with the Indians. He was traded to Boston, where he played two years under manager Terry Francona, who is now the Indians’ manager.Article continues below ...“He’s one of the nicest guys in the game, one of the most professional hitters, and one of the best switch-hitters you’ll ever see,” Francona said.Martinez is a .295 career hitter and has amassed 2,148 hits in his 16-year major league career — 1,028 as a member of the Tigers.“He was the perfect batter to hit behind Miggy,” said Francona of Martinez, who typically hit behind the now-injured Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera. “Nobody wanted to face Miggy, but if you didn’t, then you had to face Victor.”Martinez was a .306 career hitter through the 2014 season, but age and injuries caught up to him in the last four years, during which he has hit .262. Before Saturday’s game, a 15-0 Indians victory that clinched their third consecutive American League Central title, the Indians presented Martinez with a plaque during a pregame ceremony.On Sunday, Martinez will face Cleveland right-hander Shane Bieber (10-3, 4.32 ERA). Martinez is 0-for-3 versus the rookie. Bieber is second among AL rookies in wins and strikeouts.In Bieber’s last start, a 10-3 victory over Tampa Bay on Tuesday Jonathan Schoop Jersey , he set a career high for strikeouts. He pitched 6 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing three hits, with 11 strikeouts and three walks.Bieber’s rookie season has had three distinct stages. In his first four starts, he was 3-0 with a 2.22 ERA. In his next five starts he was 2-2 with a 7.33 ERA, and in his last eight starts he is 5-1 with a 3.66 ERA.Bieber’s only career appearance against Detroit was a 10-0 victory June 22, in which he pitched seven scoreless innings on four hits, with nine strikeouts and one walk.Detroit’s Sunday starter will be 34-year-old left-hander Francisco Liriano (4-10, 4.58), who has only won one game since April 28. In 18 starts since, Liriano is 1-9 with a 4.97 ERA.His last start was a 3-2 loss to Houston on Monday in which he pitched six innings and allowed three runs (zero earned) and four hits, with seven strikeouts and four walks.Liriano’s last start against the Indians came June 23, a 4-1 loss in which he pitched four innings, giving up three runs (two earned) and four hits, with three strikeouts and three walks.In four appearances (three starts) against the Indians this year, Liriano is 0-2 with a 4.96 ERA. In his career, he has made 24 appearances (18 starts) against Cleveland and is 5-8 with a 4.31 ERA.