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Brennen Davis

American professional baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ107938733
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Brennen Davis (born November 2, 1999) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the 2nd round of the 2018 MLB draft.

Amateur career

Davis attended Basha High School in Chandler, Arizona, where he played baseball and basketball. He committed to play college baseball at the University of Miami. Following his senior year, he was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the second round of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft. He signed for a $1.1 million signing bonus.

Professional career

Chicago Cubs

Davis made his professional debut with the Rookie-level Arizona League Cubs, hitting .298 over 18 games in 2018. He spent the 2019 season with the South Bend Cubs of the Single–A Midwest League, slashing .305/.381/.525 with eight home runs and 30 RBI over 50 games. Davis did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Davis missed part of the 2021 season after he took a pitch to the face in an April spring training game.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Brennen Davis” is american professional baseball player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Brennen, Davis and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2018, 2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-11-02. For this dossier, Brennen, Davis and American is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107938733. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from Brennen Davis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.