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OK OK... he may just be having a hot start... but we should start building momentum for this thing. Davis must have the most runs saved at 1B this young season.

I will be really interested to see his defensive runs saved metrics. I think he saved both games against the Red Sox with his defensive play. Maybe he should change his name to Crush Hoover...

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Is there any hope that Chris Davis could ever win a gold glove?

I think there is a big chance he could win one. Buck is already lobbying everyone he talks to about how great Davis has been at 1b. The guy hit a game winning home run and drove in 5 runs yesterday and Buck was quoted as saying his defense was the difference in the game. That will certainly get the attention of a lot of people who might otherwise assume that Davis isn't anything special with the glove.

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OK OK... he may just be having a hot start... but we should start building momentum for this thing. Davis must have the most runs saved at 1B this young season.

I'd think he might've led the league last year as well. The impression on the inside of my eyelids when I go to sleep at night is Crush scooping up a short hop from Manny or Hardy.

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I think there is a big chance he could win one. Buck is already lobbying everyone he talks to about how great Davis has been at 1b. The guy hit a game winning home run and drove in 5 runs yesterday and Buck was quoted as saying his defense was the difference in the game. That will certainly get the attention of a lot of people who might otherwise assume that Davis isn't anything special with the glove.

As much as this shouldn't be the case, having the best record in MLB won't hurt when it comes to getting attention for his play.

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I think there is a big chance he could win one. Buck is already lobbying everyone he talks to about how great Davis has been at 1b. The guy hit a game winning home run and drove in 5 runs yesterday and Buck was quoted as saying his defense was the difference in the game. That will certainly get the attention of a lot of people who might otherwise assume that Davis isn't anything special with the glove.

Buck talking about Davis play at first is nothing new, the metrics can't really capture the the balls in the dirt, or high, and the out stretched glove to get the ball in the nick of time.

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I think there is a big chance he could win one. Buck is already lobbying everyone he talks to about how great Davis has been at 1b. The guy hit a game winning home run and drove in 5 runs yesterday and Buck was quoted as saying his defense was the difference in the game. That will certainly get the attention of a lot of people who might otherwise assume that Davis isn't anything special with the glove.

Yeah, but he struck out three times, so can't possibly be good.

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http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2016/04/this-that-and-the-other-114.html

They don't award Gold Gloves a few weeks into the season, but if they did, Chris Davis would take home the hardware at first base.

This guy has been outstanding in every game. Making clean stops on scorching ground balls to his left and right, digging out throws, stretching like Gumby. Sometimes he?s digging and stretching at the same time.

That's a typical morning for me, but Davis is doing it in games.

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When was this?

Early in the 2012 season he had more than one play that was routine and he dropped the ball. I'm sure someone here has the particulars. He's definitely become better, but I'd be more impressed with a FB award for his glovework.

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Hopefully he doesn't get into that place where he's dropping throws on routine plays again. That might hurt his chances.

When was this?

Early in the 2012 season he had more than one play that was routine and he dropped the ball. I'm sure someone here has the particulars. He's definitely become better, but I'd be more impressed with a FB award for his glovework.

Davis dropped four balls that were right in his hands overall that season (two in the outfield, two at 1st base.)

The two that he dropped at 1st base came early in the season, when he was the regular 1st baseman until Mark Reynolds replaced him 50 games into the season.

Subsequently, I was concerned about Davis taking over at 1st base after the departure of Mark Reynolds following the 2012 season. But I was basing it on the evolution that our infield defense had gone through during the 2012 season.

In the first 1/3 of the 2012 season, we had one of the worst defensive infield in baseball, with 2 glaring holes at the corners ..... Davis at 1st base, and Reynolds/Betemit at 3rd base.

In the second 1/3 of the 2012 season, we went from a very bad defensive infield to an average defensive infield, when Reynolds took over at 1st base, and Davis moved to DH. We went from having glaring holes at both corner infield positions (1st base and 3rd base) to only having one glaring hole (3rd base.)

In the final 1/3 of the 2012 season, we went from an average defensive infield to one of the best infields in baseballs when Manny Machado was called up from AA-Bowie, erasing the final glaring hole that we had had in the infield (3rd base.)

Again, based on that, I was concerned about Davis taking over full-time for the newly departed Reynolds at the start of the 2013 season ...... but Davis surprised me, and wound up having (in my rat's ass of an opinion) a very solid season there defensively.

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