‘A career, not a year’: How Cubs’ Brennen Davis hopes to use injury to improve hitting

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DES MOINES, Iowa – Cubs prospect Brennen Davis was widely expected to make his major-league debut this year. Instead, after undergoing back surgery in June, he’s spent the last week of the MLB regular season in the Arizona Fall League, salvaging what he can from a mostly lost year of baseball.

“Kind of upset it happened this year because I had big goals,” Davis said in a conversation with the Sun-Times during the final weeks of the Triple-A season. “But it’s part of life. It’s part of the game. And how you overcome these obstacles is what dictates you as a player.”