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Christian Walker is 2022 Gold Glove Finalist at First Base

Walker dominated all major defensive metrics

Jack Sommers

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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.

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

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Jack Sommers
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

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