CLEVELAND (AP) — Josh Donaldson’s rough season has taken a positive turn. The Indians are giving him a swing at October.The 2015 AL MVP was traded Friday night by Toronto to Cleveland Billy Hamilton Jersey , which is hoping a healthy Donaldson can bolster its lineup and help the club get back to the World Series.“This is one of the most dynamic players in the game on both sides of the ball when he’s healthy,” Indians president Chris Antonetti said late Friday night. “We think there’s an opportunity for him to get to a point this month where he’ll be playing in games regularly and has a chance to impact us in the postseason.”The AL Central-leading Indians sent a player to be named to the Blue Jays for Donaldson, a three-time All-Star who has been limited to 36 games this season because of injuries. Toronto will send Cleveland $2,709,677 to cover most of the $3,709,677 remaining in Donaldon’s $23 million salary.The third baseman played in his first game since May 28 earlier this week during a rehab stint in Florida and the Indians are satisfied he’s worth taking on for the season’s final month and then the postseason.“We had to do our due diligence to make sure we were getting back a player that we felt had a chance to help us,” Antonetti said. “We know we’re taking on some risk with that. But we feel we’ve built that in appropriately with the structure of the deal and spent quite a bit of time talking with the Blue Jays on how we appropriately balance that risk.”It’s not immediately known how much of Donaldson’s 2018 contract Cleveland is inheriting.Antonetti said Donaldson will be in Cleveland on Saturday and a plan will be mapped out for him joining the club on a full-time basis. It’s possible Donaldson could be placed on the disabled list so he can play in minor league games while rehabbing a calf injury.Once Donaldson is ready, Indians manager Terry Francona will play him at third, which means the club will move All-Star Jose Ramirez to second and replace Jason Kipnis.Antonetti said the club had preliminary discussions with Ramirez and Kipnis Anthony DeSclafani Jersey , but will meet with them again before Saturday’s game.Antonetti is confident Ramirez and Kipnis will be willing to do whatever’s best for the Indians.“What we’ve seen repeatedly with our roster is we have guys that are first and foremost focused on winning, trying to get to the postseason and win a World Series,” he said. “We’ve seen repeated examples of guys willing to make either personally difficult decisions, or in some cases, sacrifices to help the team win. I think that is part of the culture that Tito (Francona) has continued to build here, and our players actively embrace.”In Cleveland, the right-handed hitting Donaldson will be reunited with Indians slugger Edwin Encarnacion, his former teammate in Toronto.“He’s great player, man,” Encarnacion said after the Indians beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-0 and before the trade was official. “If it happens http://www.redsfanproshop.com/authentic-adam-duvall-jersey , everybody is going to be excited here. He’s a great guy.”The 32-year-old Donaldson was the league’s top player in 2015, when he batted .297 with 41 homers and 123 RBIs. Slowed by the calf injury, Donaldson batted .234 with five homers and 16 RBIs this year for the Blue Jays.Antonetti said the Indians scouted Donaldson in Florida this week and the team didn’t know if he would be available in a deal until 1 p.m. on Friday.Donaldson, who has 179 career homers, began his career with Oakland and played four seasons with the Athletics. 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, 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 Michael Lorenzen Jersey , the low-water mark for batting title-qualifying hitters since 1900 is .179 and that has been "achieved" only twice鈥攂y 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 http://www.rockiesfanproshop.com/authentic-chad-bettis-jersey , 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, 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 Jonathan Lucroy Jersey , 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.