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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 Schools: John North HS (Riverside, CA), North Riverside 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 (Age 23)
Teams (by GP): Mariners/Angels 1984-1992

Final Game: June 25, 1992 (Age 31)
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Fine Details  · Last updated May 15, 2013 4:17PM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #745. Hal Chase… #746. Bill Bruton… #747. Bip Roberts… #748. ALVIN DAVIS… #749. Jhonny Peralta… #750. Rick Dempsey… #751. Nick Swisher… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1984 23 SEA AL 152 678 567 80 161 34 3 27 116 5 4 97 78 .284 .391 .497 .888 147 282 7 7 0 7 16 *3/D AS,MVP-12,RoY-1
1985 24 SEA AL 155 677 578 78 166 33 1 18 78 1 2 90 71 .287 .381 .441 .822 125 255 14 2 0 7 7 *3
1986 25 SEA AL 135 562 479 66 130 18 1 18 72 0 3 76 68 .271 .373 .426 .799 118 204 11 3 2 2 10 3D
1987 26 SEA AL 157 662 580 86 171 37 2 29 100 0 0 72 84 .295 .370 .516 .886 127 299 17 2 0 8 6 *3
1988 27 SEA AL 140 582 478 67 141 24 1 18 69 1 1 95 53 .295 .412 .462 .875 141 221 14 4 0 5 13 *3D
1989 28 SEA AL 142 611 498 84 152 30 1 21 95 0 1 101 49 .305 .424 .496 .920 156 247 15 6 0 6 15 *3D MVP-23
1990 29 SEA AL 140 592 494 63 140 21 0 17 68 0 2 85 68 .283 .387 .429 .816 129 212 9 4 0 9 10 D3
1991 30 SEA AL 145 528 462 39 102 15 1 12 69 0 3 56 78 .221 .299 .335 .635 76 155 8 0 0 10 9 *D3
1992 31 CAL AL 40 118 104 5 26 8 0 0 16 0 0 13 9 .250 .331 .327 .657 86 34 2 0 0 1 2 3/D
9 Yrs 1206 5010 4240 568 1189 220 10 160 683 7 16 685 558 .280 .380 .450 .830 127 1909 97 28 2 55 88
162 Game Avg. 162 673 570 76 160 30 1 21 92 1 2 92 75 .280 .380 .450 .830 127 256 13 4 0 7 12
SEA (8 yrs) 1166 4892 4136 563 1163 212 10 160 667 7 16 672 549 .281 .381 .453 .834 128 1875 95 28 2 54 86
CAL (1 yr) 40 118 104 5 26 8 0 0 16 0 0 13 9 .250 .331 .327 .657 86 34 2 0 0 1 2

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
1984 23 SEA AL 152 678 35 0 3 8 -9 36 3.9 22 58 5.9 .525 .523 5.2 -0.1 51 *3/D AS,MVP-12,RoY-1
1985 24 SEA AL 155 677 22 -3 -1 -2 -8 7 0.9 22 30 3.0 .505 .505 3.2 -1.1 32 $225,000 *3
1986 25 SEA AL 135 562 12 -2 -0 -10 -9 -9 -0.8 19 10 1.0 .493 .494 2.0 -1.9 20 $400,000 3D
1987 26 SEA AL 157 662 20 -4 -2 -7 -9 -1 -0.0 23 21 2.1 .499 .499 2.8 -1.5 28 *3
1988 27 SEA AL 140 582 27 -2 -1 -2 -9 13 1.5 20 33 3.3 .510 .508 3.5 -1.1 35 $887,500 *3D
1989 28 SEA AL 142 611 39 -2 -2 -11 -8 14 1.7 22 36 3.7 .511 .509 4.8 -2.0 47 $1,400,000 *3D MVP-23
1990 29 SEA AL 140 592 17 -2 0 3 -11 6 0.7 21 28 2.8 .505 .504 2.6 -0.9 25 $1,475,000 D3
1991 30 SEA AL 145 528 -19 -3 -1 1 -13 -35 -3.6 19 -16 -1.8 .474 .477 -1.9 -1.2 -17 $1,725,000 *D3
1992 31 CAL AL 40 118 -2 -0 -0 -0 -2 -5 -0.5 4 -1 -0.1 .486 .497 -0.1 -0.2 -0 $800,000 3/D
9 Seasons 1206 5010 149 -19 -4 -22 -78 27 3.7 172 199 19.9 .502 .502 22.2 -10.1 221 $6,912,500
SEA (8 yrs) 1166 4892 151 -19 -4 -21 -76 32 4.2 168 200 20.0 .503 .503 22.3 -9.8 221 $6,112,500
CAL (1 yr) 40 118 -2 -0 -0 -0 -2 -5 -0.5 4 -1 -0.1 .486 .497 -0.1 -0.2 -0 $800,000

Standard Fielding

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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.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

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 (982nd)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1984 AL  5.9 (10th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1984 AL  5.2 (10th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1984 AL  .391 (5th)
1985 AL  .381 (7th)
1988 AL  .412 (3rd)
1989 AL  .424 (2nd)
1990 AL  .387 (5th)
Career  .380 (173rd)

Slugging % s c a p y
1989 AL  .496 (5th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1984 AL  .888 (8th)
1989 AL  .920 (2nd)
Career  .830 (244th)

Doubles s c a p y
1984 AL  34 (8th)
1987 AL  37 (7th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1984 AL  116 (4th)
1989 AL  95 (10th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1984 AL  97 (2nd)
1985 AL  90 (6th)
1988 AL  95 (4th)
1989 AL  101 (5th)
1990 AL  85 (9th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1984 AL  147 (5th)
1989 AL  156 (2nd)
Career  127 (201st)

Runs Created s c a p y
1984 AL  117 (6th)
1989 AL  109 (6th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1984 AL  41 (5th)
1989 AL  44 (2nd)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1984 AL  4.0 (5th)
1989 AL  4.4 (2nd)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1984 AL  64 (8th)
1987 AL  68 (9th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1984 AL  265 (5th)
1985 AL  258 (8th)
1987 AL  245 (10th)
1989 AL  259 (7th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1984 AL  .711 (6th)
1988 AL  .706 (9th)
1989 AL  .751 (1st)
1990 AL  .655 (10th)
Career  .645 (228th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1984 AL  7 (8th)
1989 AL  6 (9th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1987 AL  8 (8th)
1990 AL  9 (5th)
1991 AL  10 (1st)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1984 AL  16 (2nd)
1986 AL  10 (8th)
1988 AL  13 (10th)
1989 AL  15 (4th)
Career  88 (152nd)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1984 AL  51.68 (3rd)
1989 AL  54.55 (1st)
Career  203.70 (209th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1984 AL  5.6 (3rd)
1989 AL  4.6 (1st)
Career  16.0 (236th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1984 AL  3.5 (6th)
1989 AL  5.1 (1st)
Career  16.9 (230th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1984 AL  5.1 (3rd)
1989 AL  5.3 (1st)
Career  19.9 (207th)

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)

Double Plays Turned as 1B s c a p y
1985 AL  131 (5th)
1987 AL  133 (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
1984 AL  .992 (5th)
1987 AL  .994 (3rd)
1988 AL  .994 (4th)

                           

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 25 (915), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 14 (1038), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 19 (817), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS First Base (114th), 19.9 career WAR/21.8 7yr-peak WAR/20.8 JAWS
Average HOF 1B (out of 19) = 68.2 career WAR/43.2 7yr-peak WAR/55.7 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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  6. Justin Morneau (917)
  7. Adam LaRoche (917)
  8. Kevin Millar (913)
  9. Larry Hisle (909)
  10. Mel Hall (908)
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  1. Bob Robertson (965)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Paul Konerko (970)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Jeff Bagwell (962)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Adrian Gonzalez (962)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Paul Konerko (955)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Ted Kluszewski (953)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Sean Casey (932)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Eric Karros (921)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Wally Joyner (946)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
198524Seattle Mariners$225,000Scully, Business of MLB, p. 163
198625Seattle Mariners$400,000G. Scully, Business of MLB, p. 163Arbitration loss; $550,000 request
198827Seattle Mariners$887,500*
198928Seattle Mariners$1,400,000*
199029Seattle Mariners$1,475,000USA Today
199130Seattle Mariners$1,725,000USA Today survey
199231California Angels$800,0004/2/92 USA Today
Career to date (may be incomplete)$6,912,500
Disputed Salaries
*1988 - $922,500 - 12/13/88 NYT -
*1989 - $1,325,000 - 11/1/89 NYT -
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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