
Jody Richard Davis (born November 12, 1956) is an American former professional baseball player and minor league manager. He was a catcher in Major League Baseball with the Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves from 1981 to 1990. A two-time National League All-Star, Davis won the 1986 National League Gold Glove Award.
In a ten-year Major League Baseball career, Davis played in 1,082 games, accumulating 877 hits in 3,585 at bats for a .245 career batting average along with 127 home runs and 490 runs batted in. He ended his career with a .987 fielding percentage as a catcher. On 15 April 1987, Davis hit the 4,000th home run in the history of Wrigley Field.
He holds the all-time MLB record for number of baserunners caught stealing at 89, set in 1986. In 2026, he is set to be inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame.





