Christian Walker is 2022 Gold Glove Finalist at First Base

Walker dominated all major defensive metrics

Jack Sommers | Oct 20, 2022

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As announced by Rawlings Baseball, Christian Walker is a Gold Glove finalist for first base. The other two nominees are form Diamondbacks Paul Goldschmidt of the St. Louis Cardinals and Matt Olson of the Atlanta Braves.

2022 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Finalists - First Base - NL: Paul Goldschmidt, Matt Olson, Christian Walker #RawlingsGoldGloveAwards pic.twitter.com/vR2c92QiSs
— Rawlings Baseball (@RawlingsSports) October 20, 2022

For Walker this is the second time he's been a finalist, the first coming in 2019. As written about in yesterday's player review Walker led all major league first basemen in Defensive Runs Saved as calculated by Sports Info Solution and published on Baseball-Reference.com, and also led all of MLB in on Statcast outs above average and runs saved. Here is how the NL Finalists ranked in these metrics for 2022

Player	rDRS	NL Rank	Statcast OAA	NL Rank	Statcast Runs saved	NL Rank
Walker	+17	1st	+14	1ST	+11	1ST
Olson	+5	5th	+2	5th	+2	5th
Goldschmidt	+2	11th	-6	15th	-4	15th

Here is a mini reel of a few Christian Walker Defensive Gems https://t.co/yAaxdrBaZP #MLBFilmRoom via @MLB
— Jack Sommers (@shoewizard59) October 19, 2022

Published Oct 20, 2022

JACK SOMMERS

Jack Sommers is the Publisher for Arizona Diamondbacks ON SI. Formerly a baseball operations department analyst for the D-backs, Jack also covered the team as a credentialed beat writer for SB Nation and has written for MLB.com and The Associated Press. Follow Jack on Twitter @shoewizard59