Chris Davis, all or nothin'

Second year player Chris Davis of the Rangers is taking feast or famine to the extreme. You though Ryan Howard or Jack Cust were bad about striking out between the homers they are paid to hit? Check out this guy: Nine homers in 108 at bats00pretty darn good, right?! But get this--he has already struck out 50 times! That is once every 2.16 at bats! Unheard of! He struck out "only" 88 times in 295 AB (with 17 HR) last year: that's a K every 3.35.
Those other guys I mentioned? Their worst years striking out were:
For Ryan: 199 in 529 AB in 2007 (with 47 HR to show for it), which is a K every 2.66 AB.
For Cust: 164 in 396 AB in 2007 (with 26 HR), or a K every 2.41 AB (that's not counting his limited play in 2002, when he struck out 32 Xs in 65 AB, once every 2.03 AB)