Alvin Davis

Alvin Glenn Davis

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: September 9, 1960 in Riverside, CA
High School: John North HS (Riverside, CA)
School: Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
Drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 6th round of the 1982 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 11, 1984
Teams (by GP): Mariners/Angels 1984-1992

Final Game: June 25, 1992
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1984	SEA	AL	23	1B	147	145	142	1282.0	1376	1271	94	11	108	.992	8	7	9.58	9.29	.991	9.75	9.68	AS,MVP-12,RoY-1
1984	SEA	AL	23	DH	7	7																AS,MVP-12,RoY-1
1985	SEA	AL	24	1B	154	154	134	1338.0	1554	1438	103	13	131	.992	-2	-2	10.37	10.01	.991	9.76	9.67
1986	SEA	AL	25	1B	101	99	91	868.1	976	880	82	14	112	.986	-10	-14	9.97	9.52	.991	9.42	9.33
1986	SEA	AL	25	DH	32	32
1987	SEA	AL	26	1B	157	157	141	1355.2	1491	1386	96	9	133	.994	-7	-6	9.84	9.44	.992	9.58	9.48
1988	SEA	AL	27	1B	115	114	100	985.1	1051	980	65	6	111	.994	-2	-2	9.54	9.09	.992	9.57	9.49
1988	SEA	AL	27	DH	25	24
1989	SEA	AL	28	1B	125	125	108	1077.1	1197	1106	81	10	119	.992	-11	-12	9.92	9.50	.993	9.79	9.69	MVP-23
1989	SEA	AL	28	DH	14	14																MVP-23
1990	SEA	AL	29	DH	87	87
1990	SEA	AL	29	1B	52	51	44	446.1	469	435	31	3	41	.994	3	7	9.40	8.96	.992	9.63	9.53
1991	SEA	AL	30	DH	126	114
1991	SEA	AL	30	1B	14	13	9	115.0	123	116	7	0	14	1.000	1	8	9.63	8.79	.992	9.75	9.74
1992	CAL	AL	31	1B	22	20	17	171.0	205	191	13	1	20	.995	-0	-2	10.74	9.27	.993	9.68	9.64
1992	CAL	AL	31	DH	9	7
	9 Seasons			1B	887	878	786	7639.0	8442	7803	572	67	789	.992	-22	-3	9.87	9.44	.992	9.66	9.57
	9 Seasons			TOT	887	878	786	7639.0	8442	7803	572	67	789	.992	-22	-3	9.87	9.44	.992	9.66	9.57

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1984	SEA	AL	23	1B	8	7	8	3	5	0
1985	SEA	AL	24	1B	-2	-2	-2	-1	-1	0
1986	SEA	AL	25	1B	-10	-14	-10	-4	-6	0
1987	SEA	AL	26	1B	-7	-6	-7	-2	-5	0
1988	SEA	AL	27	1B	-2	-2	-3	-1	-2	1
1989	SEA	AL	28	1B	-11	-12	-11	-6	-5	0
1990	SEA	AL	29	1B	3	7	3	4	-1	0
1991	SEA	AL	30	1B	1	8	1	0	0	0
1992	CAL	AL	31	1B	-0	-2	-0	-0	-0	0
	9 Seasons			1B	-22	-3	-22	-7	-15	1
	9 Seasons			TOT	-22	-3	-22	-7	-15	1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	DH	PH
1984	SEA	AL	23	152	152	152	147	147	7	0
1985	SEA	AL	24	155	154	155	154	154	0	1
1986	SEA	AL	25	135	131	135	101	101	32	4
1987	SEA	AL	26	157	157	157	157	157	0	0
1988	SEA	AL	27	140	138	140	115	115	25	2
1989	SEA	AL	28	142	139	142	125	125	14	3
1990	SEA	AL	29	140	138	140	52	52	87	2
1991	SEA	AL	30	145	127	145	14	14	126	17
1992	CAL	AL	31	40	27	40	22	22	9	12
	9 Seasons			1206	1163	1206	887	887	300	41

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1984	SEA	AL	23	5596	61%	78%	26%	291	98%	1	1272	47	1206	19	160	91	54	22	0	3	11	2	9	0	7	108	3	0	2	98	4	10	4	6	8	100%
1985	SEA	AL	24	5841	59%	80%	28%	294	97%	1	1438	50	1368	22	154	103	69	12	1	6	13	2	10	1	10	131	3	1	2	121	7	10	1	9	11	100%
1986	SEA	AL	25	3810	56%	79%	30%	231	92%	4	885	50	825	11	93	80	47	18	3	5	14	3	10	1	9	114	4	2	1	103	7	9	5	4	7	86%
1987	SEA	AL	26	5851	58%	80%	29%	299	94%	3	1380	79	1285	16	116	99	77	10	1	5	9	0	9	0	7	134	3	2	0	126	5	7	1	6	10	80%
1988	SEA	AL	27	4189	59%	79%	32%	227	96%	0	978	67	895	14	99	65	38	14	1	3	6	1	3	2	5	111	4	3	3	107	10	4	1	3	7	86%
1989	SEA	AL	28	4641	58%	80%	34%	243	93%	4	1109	74	1015	18	80	80	59	11	5	4	11	3	5	3	6	119	3	2	1	110	7	8	0	8	11	73%
1990	SEA	AL	29	1884	65%	76%	33%	107	93%	0	437	30	397	9	41	33	23	7	0	0	3	0	2	1	1	41	0	2	0	40	2	1	1	0	4	75%
1991	SEA	AL	30	484	68%	75%	32%	29	93%	0	116	11	104	1	10	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	4	100%
1992	CAL	AL	31	729	71%	81%	34%	45	93%	0	191	13	172	6	22	13	6	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	20	0	0	0	19	0	1	1	0	2	100%
	9 Seasons			33025	59%	79%	30%	1766	95%	13	7806	421	7267	116	775	571	379	95	11	28	68	11	49	8	46	792	20	12	9	738	42	50	14	36	64	88%
	MLB Averages				58%	80%	31%		94%																											87%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 1984 *	Awards (yr lg award) 1984 AL Rookie of the Year	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1984 AL (12, 7%) 1989 AL (23, 1%) 0.08 Career Shares (972nd)	Putouts† s c a p y 1984 AL 1,271 (3rd) 1985 AL 1,438 (3rd) 1987 AL 1,386 (2nd)
Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1984 AL 147 (4th) 1987 AL 157 (2nd)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1984 AL 1,271 (3rd) 1985 AL 1,438 (3rd) 1987 AL 1,386 (2nd)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1985 AL 13 (5th) 1986 AL 14 (3rd) 1989 AL 10 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 1984 AL 8 (5th)
Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1985 AL 10.37 (3rd) 1986 AL 9.97 (2nd) 1987 AL 9.84 (4th) Career 9.87 (32nd)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1985 AL 10.01 (2nd) 1986 AL 9.52 (2nd) 1987 AL 9.44 (5th) 1989 AL 9.50 (4th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1987 AL .994 (4th) 1988 AL .994 (5th)

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