MLB / Players

Gene Alley

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornJuly 10, 1940 · Richmond, VA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1963

Final gameSeptember 27, 1973

Seasons11 (1963–1973)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1963–1973

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified batters

133

530

11.4

474

11.4

12.5

116

12.5

37.5

15.9

20.5

RBI

23.9

34.1

43.2

72.7

48.9

.245

21.6

OBP

.307

30.7

SLG

.321

19.3

OPS

.628

20.5

wRC+

90.4

18.2

OPS+

90.3

15.9

wOBA

.296

20.5

sWAR

1.9

26.1

of 89 qualified 1968 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.7

18.2

OPS+

89.0

21.4

sWAR

13.3

89.9

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
1963	17	56	51	3	11	1	0	0	0	2	12	0	1	.216	.245	.235	.481	34.5	39.7	.226	-0.2
1964	81	234	209	30	44	3	1	6	13	21	56	0	1	.211	.286	.321	.607	71.5	71.9	.279	0.3
1965	153	540	500	47	126	21	6	5	47	32	82	7	2	.252	.302	.348	.650	79.6	83.3	.292	1.1
1966	147	634	579	88	173	28	10	7	43	27	83	8	8	.299	.334	.418	.752	111.0	108.3	.339	3.7
1967	152	604	550	59	158	25	7	6	55	36	70	10	5	.287	.337	.391	.728	110.1	107.8	.335	3.6
1968	133	530	474	48	116	20	2	4	39	39	78	13	5	.245	.307	.321	.628	90.4	90.3	.296	1.9
1969	82	309	285	28	70	3	2	8	32	19	48	4	0	.246	.293	.354	.648	82.4	83.7	.300	0.6
1970	121	466	426	46	104	16	5	8	41	31	70	7	3	.244	.297	.362	.659	73.8	79.1	.295	0.6
1971	114	389	348	38	79	8	7	6	28	35	43	9	2	.227	.296	.342	.638	71.8	82.4	.284	0.6
1972	119	389	347	30	86	12	2	3	36	38	52	4	3	.248	.321	.320	.641	81.9	85.9	.296	1.1
1973	76	181	158	25	32	3	2	2	8	20	28	1	0	.203	.292	.285	.577	57.1	63.6	.264	-0.1

Career totals

1,195

4,332

3,927

442

999

140

RBI

342

300

622

.2544

OBP

.3101

SLG

.3545

OPS

.6646

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1970-07-03	PIT @ CHC Gameday	6	2	4	1	2	4	0	11
1969-08-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	2	1	9
1966-07-03	PIT @ NYM Gameday	5	2	3	2	1	1	0	8
1971-08-03	PIT @ WSH Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1969-08-18	PIT @ CIN Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1963-06-07	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1963-06-19	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1963-08-07	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-04-28	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-05-08	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

2× Gold Glove2× 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.