Don Zimmer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornJanuary 17, 1931 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutJuly 2, 1954

Final gameOctober 2, 1965

Seasons12 (1954–1965)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1954–1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1959; Chicago Cubs 1960–1961; Cincinnati Reds 1962; New York Mets 1962; Los Angeles Dodgers 1963; Washington Senators 1963–1965

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified batters

128

512

9.5

477

4.8

120

8.3

53.6

32.1

39.3

RBI

7.1

41.7

46.4

79.8

.252

11.9

OBP

.291

1.2

SLG

.403

40.5

OPS

.694

21.4

wRC+

78.4

9.5

OPS+

79.7

9.5

wOBA

.308

13.1

sWAR

0.5

10.7

of 85 qualified 1961 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

72.9

4.6

OPS+

75.9

6.2

sWAR

3.0

73.9

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1954	24	37	33	3	6	0	1	0	0	3	8	2	0	.182	.270	.242	.513	30.7	34.1	.247	-0.1
1955	88	309	280	38	67	10	1	15	50	19	66	5	3	.239	.289	.443	.731	83.0	89.6	.313	0.6
1956	17	21	20	4	6	1	0	0	2	0	7	0	1	.300	.333	.350	.683	82.1	80.5	.312	0.1
1957	84	289	269	23	59	9	1	6	19	16	63	1	3	.219	.262	.327	.589	43.3	53.4	.258	-0.8
1958	127	495	455	52	119	15	2	17	60	28	92	14	2	.262	.305	.415	.720	82.1	83.8	.320	1.2
1959	97	292	249	21	41	7	1	4	28	37	56	3	1	.165	.274	.249	.523	31.6	37.5	.243	-1.0
1960	132	402	368	37	95	16	7	6	35	27	56	8	6	.258	.307	.389	.696	87.4	89.4	.311	0.9
1961	128	512	477	57	120	25	4	13	40	25	70	5	1	.252	.291	.403	.694	78.4	79.7	.308	0.5
1962	77	262	244	19	52	12	2	2	17	17	40	1	3	.213	.267	.303	.570	49.0	52.0	.263	-0.7
1963	105	346	321	41	79	13	1	14	46	21	67	3	2	.246	.297	.424	.720	98.3	99.5	.320	1.3
1964	121	370	341	38	84	16	2	12	38	27	94	1	3	.246	.302	.411	.712	95.9	95.1	.320	1.2
1965	95	258	226	20	45	6	0	2	17	26	59	2	0	.199	.284	.252	.536	55.3	54.2	.258	-0.2

Career totals

1,095

3,593

3,283

353

773

130

RBI

352

246

678

.2355

OBP

.2902

SLG

.3716

OPS

.6618

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1955-04-21	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	1	3	0	9
1961-07-23	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	4	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1957-04-30	CHC @ LAD Gameday	6	1	5	0	0	1	2	0	8
1958-07-18	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1955-09-09	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	3	2	0	0	2	6	1	8

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.