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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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Fine Details  · Last updated Dec 13, 2012 2:17PM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #846. Freddy Sanchez… #847. Bill Lange… #848. Manny Mota… #849. GLENN DAVIS… #850. George Harper… #851. Denard Span… #852. Ozzie Guillen… 

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 HOU NL 18 68 61 6 13 5 0 2 8 0 0 4 12 .213 .258 .393 .651 88 24 0 0 2 1 0 3
1985 24 HOU NL 100 390 350 51 95 11 0 20 64 0 0 27 68 .271 .332 .474 .807 127 166 12 7 2 4 6 3/9 RoY-5
1986 25 HOU NL 158 654 574 91 152 32 3 31 101 3 1 64 72 .265 .344 .493 .837 132 283 11 9 0 7 6 *3 AS,MVP-2,SS
1987 26 HOU NL 151 635 578 70 145 35 2 27 93 4 1 47 84 .251 .310 .458 .769 104 265 16 5 0 5 10 *3
1988 27 HOU NL 152 634 561 78 152 26 0 30 99 4 3 53 77 .271 .341 .478 .818 138 268 11 11 0 9 20 *3 MVP-8
1989 28 HOU NL 158 663 581 87 156 26 1 34 89 4 2 69 123 .269 .350 .492 .842 142 286 9 7 0 6 17 *3 AS,MVP-7
1990 29 HOU NL 93 381 327 44 82 15 4 22 64 8 3 46 54 .251 .357 .523 .880 143 171 5 8 0 0 17 3
1991 30 BAL AL 49 199 176 29 40 9 1 10 28 4 0 16 29 .227 .307 .460 .767 113 81 2 5 0 2 0 3D
1992 31 BAL AL 106 442 398 46 110 15 2 13 48 1 0 37 65 .276 .338 .422 .760 112 168 12 2 1 4 2 D/3
1993 32 BAL AL 30 123 113 8 20 3 0 1 9 0 1 7 29 .177 .230 .230 .460 22 26 2 1 1 1 0 3/D
10 Yrs 1015 4189 3719 510 965 177 13 190 603 28 11 370 613 .259 .332 .467 .800 123 1738 80 55 6 39 78
162 Game Avg. 162 669 594 81 154 28 2 30 96 4 2 59 98 .259 .332 .467 .800 123 277 13 9 1 6 12
HOU (7 yrs) 830 3425 3032 427 795 150 10 166 518 23 10 310 490 .262 .337 .483 .819 129 1463 64 47 4 32 76
BAL (3 yrs) 185 764 687 83 170 27 3 24 85 5 1 60 123 .247 .312 .400 .713 97 275 16 8 2 7 2
NL (7 yrs) 830 3425 3032 427 795 150 10 166 518 23 10 310 490 .262 .337 .483 .819 129 1463 64 47 4 32 76
AL (3 yrs) 185 764 687 83 170 27 3 24 85 5 1 60 123 .247 .312 .400 .713 97 275 16 8 2 7 2

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 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 HOU NL 18 68 -1 -0 1 -1 -1 -2 -0.2 2 -0 0.0 .486 .498 0.0 -0.2 1 $ 3
1985 24 HOU NL 100 390 13 -1 -2 -1 -6 3 0.4 12 15 1.5 .503 .502 1.6 -0.8 16 $60,000 3/9 RoY-5
1986 25 HOU NL 158 654 26 -0 0 3 -10 20 2.2 20 40 4.2 .514 .513 3.8 -0.7 37 $120,000 *3 AS,MVP-2,SS
1987 26 HOU NL 151 635 5 1 -1 -1 -9 -5 -0.4 19 14 1.4 .496 .497 1.4 -1.0 15 $215,000 *3
1988 27 HOU NL 152 634 23 -1 0 4 -9 17 2.0 20 37 3.9 .513 .512 3.4 -0.6 33 $340,000 *3 MVP-8
1989 28 HOU NL 158 663 29 -3 -1 4 -10 20 2.2 20 40 4.2 .514 .514 3.8 -0.6 36 $1,085,000 *3 AS,MVP-7
1990 29 HOU NL 93 381 18 0 -0 -4 -6 9 1.1 11 19 2.1 .510 .506 2.4 -0.9 23 $1,985,000 3
1991 30 BAL AL 49 199 5 1 0 -5 -4 -2 -0.2 7 4 0.4 .495 .498 0.9 -0.8 9 $3,275,000 3D
1992 31 BAL AL 106 442 7 1 -2 -0 -10 -4 -0.3 15 10 1.0 .495 .497 1.1 -1.1 11 $3,415,000 D/3
1993 32 BAL AL 30 123 -14 -0 -0 2 -2 -14 -1.4 4 -10 -1.1 .451 .491 -1.2 0.0 -12 $3,817,500 3/D
10 Seasons 1015 4189 111 -2 -4 1 -66 40 5.3 130 170 17.6 .505 .503 17.2 -6.6 168 $14,312,500
HOU (7 yrs) 830 3425 113 -4 -3 5 -50 61 7.3 104 165 17.3 .508 .506 16.4 -4.7 160 $3,805,000
BAL (3 yrs) 185 764 -2 1 -1 -3 -16 -21 -2.0 26 5 0.3 .488 .495 0.8 -1.9 8 $10,507,500

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1986 25 HOU NL NLCS NYM L 6 28 26 3 7 1 0 1 3 0 0 1 3 .269 .321 .423 .745 11 0 1 0 0 0
1 NLCS 6 28 26 3 7 1 0 1 3 0 0 1 3 .269 .321 .423 .745 11 0 1 0 0 0

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 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.
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-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
  • 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
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 (222nd)

Silver Sluggers
1986 NL (1B)

Slugging % s c a p y
1986 NL  .493 (5th)
1988 NL  .478 (10th)
1989 NL  .492 (7th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1986 NL  .837 (10th)

Games Played s c a p y
1986 NL  158 (6th)
1989 NL  158 (10th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1986 NL  91 (8th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1986 NL  283 (7th)
1988 NL  268 (8th)
1989 NL  286 (6th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1986 NL  31 (2nd)
1988 NL  30 (2nd)
1989 NL  34 (3rd)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1986 NL  101 (4th)
1988 NL  99 (5th)
1989 NL  89 (7th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1989 NL  123 (6th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1986 NL  132 (10th)
1989 NL  142 (9th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1986 NL  100 (9th)
1989 NL  102 (9th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1989 NL  32 (10th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1989 NL  3.3 (10th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1986 NL  66 (3rd)
1987 NL  64 (10th)
1989 NL  61 (5th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1986 NL  .655 (9th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1985 NL  7 (4th)
1986 NL  9 (2nd)
1988 NL  11 (3rd)
1989 NL  7 (5th)
1990 NL  8 (1st)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1986 NL  7 (10th)
1988 NL  9 (4th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1988 NL  20 (4th)
1989 NL  17 (9th)
1990 NL  17 (6th)
Career  78 (188th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1986 NL  18.5 (4th)
1988 NL  18.7 (3rd)
1989 NL  17.1 (5th)
Career  19.6 (107th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1987 NL  455 (9th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1986 NL  4.4 (3rd)
1989 NL  4.4 (9th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1986 NL  3.3 (6th)
1989 NL  4.0 (8th)

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 (60th)

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)

                           

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, 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 - 38 (649), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 16 (940), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 12 (1449), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS First Base (118th), 17.6 career WAR/18.3 7yr-peak WAR/17.9 JAWS
Average HOF 1B (out of 18) = 62.3 career WAR/40.7 7yr-peak WAR/51.5 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Paul Sorrento (946)
  2. Don Mincher (931)
  3. Lee Stevens (925)
  4. Nate Colbert (924)
  5. Jim Gentile (921)
  6. Glenallen Hill (921)
  7. Dick Stuart (920)
  8. Kevin Young (916)
  9. Josh Willingham (913)
  10. Adam LaRoche (912)
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  1. Tony Clark (976)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Chris Davis (968)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Greg Walker (964)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Eric Karros (966)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Tino Martinez (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Tony Clark (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Tony Clark (967)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Tony Clark (968)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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
198524Houston Astros$60,0003/3/86 TSN
198625Houston Astros$120,0001986 USA Today survey
198726Houston Astros$215,0001987 USA Today survey
198827Houston Astros$340,000USA Today, 4/1/88
198928Houston Astros$1,085,0001990 TSN Guide 23Arbitration win; $875,000 offer
199029Houston Astros$1,985,000USA Today
199130Baltimore Orioles$3,275,0001994 Joint Exhibit 1
199231Baltimore Orioles$3,415,0001994 Joint Exhibit 1Incl $50,000 signing bonus, $550K earned
199332Baltimore Orioles$3,817,5001994 Joint Exhibit 1Incl $50,000 signing bonus, $17,500 to waive NTP
Career to date (may be incomplete)$14,312,500
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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