Gene Clines
Pittsburgh Pirates 1970–1974; New York Mets 1975; Texas Rangers 1976; Chicago Cubs 1977–1979
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 31 | 39 | 37 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .405 | .436 | .459 | .895 | 151.6 | 144.9 | .414 | 0.4 |
| 1971 | 97 | 300 | 273 | 52 | 84 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 22 | 36 | 15 | 6 | .308 | .366 | .392 | .758 | 123.7 | 117.2 | .357 | 1.8 |
| 1972 | 107 | 334 | 311 | 52 | 104 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 17 | 16 | 47 | 12 | 6 | .334 | .369 | .421 | .790 | 131.7 | 127.8 | .365 | 2.0 |
| 1973 | 110 | 337 | 304 | 42 | 80 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 26 | 36 | 8 | 7 | .263 | .327 | .329 | .656 | 90.4 | 85.8 | .313 | 0.6 |
| 1974 | 107 | 317 | 276 | 29 | 62 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 30 | 40 | 14 | 2 | .225 | .307 | .250 | .557 | 64.0 | 60.6 | .276 | -0.4 |
| 1975 | 82 | 216 | 203 | 25 | 46 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 4 | 4 | .227 | .269 | .286 | .554 | 54.4 | 58.1 | .263 | -0.6 |
| 1976 | 116 | 480 | 446 | 52 | 123 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 16 | 52 | 11 | 9 | .276 | .304 | .316 | .620 | 79.7 | 81.3 | .294 | -0.1 |
| 1977 | 101 | 269 | 239 | 27 | 70 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 41 | 25 | 25 | 1 | 2 | .293 | .358 | .397 | .756 | 95.6 | 93.9 | .345 | 0.4 |
| 1978 | 109 | 254 | 229 | 31 | 59 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 21 | 28 | 4 | 3 | .258 | .321 | .319 | .640 | 72.4 | 71.5 | .305 | -0.3 |
| 1979 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -10.0 | 5.5 | .185 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-05-16 | SD @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1971-05-09 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1976-08-18 | TEX @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1971-06-16 | PIT @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1971-07-08 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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.