Glenn Davis

Glenn Earle Davis

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: March 28, 1961 in Jacksonville, FL
High School: University Christian HS (Jacksonville, FL)
School: University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 1st round (5th pick) of the 1981 amateur draft (January Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1984
Teams (by GP): Astros/Orioles 1984-1993
Agents: Michael Moye [*]
Final Game: May 23, 1993
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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	HOU	NL	23	1B	16	15	13	137.0	168	151	15	2	13	.988	-1	-7	10.91	10.38	.992	9.86	9.83
1985	HOU	NL	24	1B	89	88	67	737.1	818	749	57	12	76	.985	-2	-3	9.84	9.06	.993	10.06	10.05	RoY-5
1985	HOU	NL	24	OF	9	8	4	64.0	17	17	0	0	0	1.000	0	8	2.39	1.89	.979	2.19	2.20	RoY-5
1985	HOU	NL	24	RF	9	8	4	64.0	16	16	0	0	0	1.000	0	8	2.25	1.78	.977	2.01	2.01	RoY-5
1986	HOU	NL	25	1B	156	156	140	1356.2	1375	1253	111	11	90	.992	3	3	9.05	8.74	.992	9.94	9.95	AS,MVP-2,SS
1987	HOU	NL	26	1B	151	150	146	1324.0	1407	1283	112	12	89	.991	-1	-1	9.48	9.24	.991	9.88	9.83
1988	HOU	NL	27	1B	151	150	143	1340.2	1464	1355	103	6	104	.996	4	4	9.79	9.66	.991	9.96	9.98	MVP-8
1989	HOU	NL	28	1B	156	153	138	1377.2	1472	1347	113	12	101	.992	4	4	9.54	9.36	.992	9.75	9.76	AS,MVP-7
1990	HOU	NL	29	1B	91	88	75	775.1	855	796	55	4	56	.995	-4	-6	9.88	9.35	.992	9.59	9.53
1991	BAL	AL	30	1B	36	36	22	299.1	334	288	38	8	35	.976	-5	-20	9.80	9.06	.992	9.75	9.74
1991	BAL	AL	30	DH	12	10
1992	BAL	AL	31	DH	103	98
1992	BAL	AL	31	1B	2	2	2	18.0	20	19	1	0	1	1.000	-0	-20	10.00	10.00	.993	9.70	9.65
1993	BAL	AL	32	1B	22	22	12	178.1	204	190	12	2	19	.990	2	13	10.19	9.18	.993	9.57	9.48
1993	BAL	AL	32	DH	7	7
	10 Seasons			1B	870	860	758	7544.1	8117	7431	617	69	584	.991	1	0	9.60	9.25	.992	9.86	9.84
	1 Season			RF	9	8	4	64.0	16	16	0	0	0	1.000	0	8	2.25	1.78	.977	2.01	2.01
	1 Season			OF	9	8	4	64.0	17	17	0	0	0	1.000	0	8	2.39	1.89	.979	2.19	2.20
	10 Seasons			TOT	879	868	762	7608.1	8134	7448	617	69	584	.992	1	0	9.54	9.18	.992	9.79	9.76

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	Rof
1984	HOU	NL	23	1B	-1	-7	-1	-1	-0	0
1985	HOU	NL	24	1B	-2	-3	-2	-1	-1	0
1985	HOU	NL	24	RF	0	8	0	0	0		0
1986	HOU	NL	25	1B	3	3	4	4	-0	-1
1987	HOU	NL	26	1B	-1	-1	-1	2	-2	0
1988	HOU	NL	27	1B	4	4	5	5	0	-1
1989	HOU	NL	28	1B	4	4	4	1	3	0
1990	HOU	NL	29	1B	-4	-6	-3	-1	-2	-1
1991	BAL	AL	30	1B	-5	-20	-5	-2	-2	0
1992	BAL	AL	31	1B	-0	-20	-0	-0	0	0
1993	BAL	AL	32	1B	2	13	2	-0	2	0
	10 Seasons			1B	1	0	4	7	-3	-3
	1 Season			RF	0	8	0	0	0		0
	10 Seasons			TOT	1	0	4	7	-3	-3	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	RF	OF	DH	PH
1984	HOU	NL	23	18	15	18	16	16	0	0	0	2
1985	HOU	NL	24	100	96	100	97	89	9	9	0	4
1986	HOU	NL	25	158	156	158	156	156	0	0	0	2
1987	HOU	NL	26	151	150	151	151	151	0	0	0	1
1988	HOU	NL	27	152	150	152	151	151	0	0	0	2
1989	HOU	NL	28	158	153	158	156	156	0	0	0	3
1990	HOU	NL	29	93	88	93	91	91	0	0	0	5
1991	BAL	AL	30	49	46	49	36	36	0	0	12	3
1992	BAL	AL	31	106	100	106	2	2	0	0	103	6
1993	BAL	AL	32	30	29	30	22	22	0	0	7	1
	10 Seasons			1015	983	1015	878	870	9	9	122	29

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	HOU	NL	23	568	59%	85%	30%	32	94%	0	153	0	151	2	17	14	10	2	0	2	2	0	2	0	2	13	0	1	0	11	1	2	0	2	1	100%
1985	HOU	NL	24	3162	60%	81%	26%	165	96%	1	744	31	699	16	74	61	40	10	3	8	11	3	7	1	6	77	2	0	1	69	4	8	1	7	9	89%
1986	HOU	NL	25	5590	62%	77%	26%	321	94%	3	1254	62	1171	21	150	102	83	9	2	5	11	1	10	0	10	91	2	0	2	79	4	12	3	9	27	100%
1987	HOU	NL	26	5628	58%	78%	27%	306	95%	1	1288	86	1178	20	115	108	72	18	1	11	12	1	10	1	10	90	5	0	1	78	8	12	3	9	21	86%
1988	HOU	NL	27	5636	59%	80%	33%	325	94%	5	1355	81	1250	24	138	102	72	12	1	5	6	3	3	0	1	105	1	0	1	99	2	5	0	4	38	92%
1989	HOU	NL	28	5853	56%	80%	31%	358	94%	1	1345	96	1214	26	142	112	81	18	1	6	12	1	7	4	7	101	3	4	1	92	8	9	3	6	29	83%
1990	HOU	NL	29	3266	54%	82%	33%	218	94%	2	797	65	722	9	86	57	44	6	2	3	4	0	3	1	4	55	0	0	0	50	0	5	2	3	11	73%
1991	BAL	AL	30	1287	52%	80%	33%	87	87%	0	290	14	270	5	27	37	29	4	1	3	8	1	6	1	7	35	2	0	0	30	2	5	0	5	2	100%
1992	BAL	AL	31	74	72%	74%	31%	3	100%	0	19	2	17	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
1993	BAL	AL	32	758	64%	81%	33%	39	92%	0	189	10	173	4	16	12	10	0	0	3	1	0	1	0	1	19	0	0	0	16	0	3	0	3	3	100%
	10 Seasons			31822	58%	79%	30%	1854	94%	13	7434	447	6845	127	765	606	441	80	11	46	67	10	49	8	48	587	16	5	6	525	30	61	12	48	141	89%
	MLB Averages				58%	80%	31%		94%																											87%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1985	HOU	NL	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	2	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	288	66%	82%	24%	16	100%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	2	100.0%	0	0	0.0%	0	288	66%	82%	24%	16	100%
	MLB Averages																														42.6%			2.8%			58%	80%	36%		59%

* 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 1986 * 1989 *	Awards (yr lg award) 1990 ML Lou Gehrig Memorial Award	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1986 NL (2, 69%) 1988 NL (8, 21%) 1989 NL (7, 19%) 1.09 Career Shares (219th)	Silver Sluggers 1986 NL (1B)
Putouts† s c a p y 1986 NL 1,253 (3rd) 1987 NL 1,283 (4th) 1988 NL 1,355 (3rd) 1989 NL 1,347 (4th)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1986 NL 156 (1st) 1987 NL 151 (2nd) 1988 NL 151 (3rd) 1989 NL 156 (5th)	Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1986 NL 1,253 (3rd) 1987 NL 1,283 (4th) 1988 NL 1,355 (3rd) 1989 NL 1,347 (4th)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 1986 NL 111 (3rd) 1987 NL 112 (3rd) 1988 NL 103 (4th) 1989 NL 113 (3rd)
Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1985 NL 12 (2nd) 1986 NL 11 (3rd) 1987 NL 12 (5th) 1989 NL 12 (3rd) 1991 AL 8 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 1988 NL 4 (3rd) 1989 NL 4 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1990 NL 9.88 (5th) Career 9.60 (61st)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1988 NL 9.66 (4th) 1990 NL 9.35 (3rd)
Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1988 NL .996 (2nd) 1990 NL .995 (2nd)

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