Gene Freese

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 8, 1934 · Wheeling, WV, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1955

Final gameSeptember 3, 1966

Seasons12 (1955–1966)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1955–1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1958; Philadelphia Phillies 1959; Chicago White Sox 1960; Cincinnati Reds 1961–1963; Pittsburgh Pirates 1964; Chicago White Sox 1965; Pittsburgh Pirates 1965; Chicago White Sox 1966; Houston Astros 1966

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified batters

152

61.9

606

575

159

64.3

65.5

8.3

72.6

RBI

67.9

3.6

28.6

60.7

.277

42.9

OBP

.307

8.3

SLG

.466

OPS

.774

42.9

wRC+

99.1

40.5

OPS+

101.6

42.9

wOBA

.336

38.1

sWAR

2.2

47.6

of 85 qualified 1961 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

92.3

27.1

OPS+

94.2

29.6

sWAR

10.5

87.5

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
1955	134	510	455	69	115	21	8	14	44	34	57	5	1	.253	.310	.426	.736	92.2	93.5	.325	1.4
1956	65	230	207	17	43	9	0	3	14	16	45	2	1	.208	.273	.295	.568	50.5	54.6	.257	-0.5
1957	114	372	346	44	98	18	2	6	31	17	42	9	4	.283	.319	.399	.718	95.7	95.1	.321	1.1
1958	79	221	209	29	52	11	1	7	18	11	34	1	1	.249	.286	.411	.698	78.1	80.0	.310	0.3
1959	132	457	400	60	107	14	5	23	70	43	61	8	4	.268	.343	.500	.843	119.6	119.4	.369	2.8
1960	127	501	455	60	124	32	6	17	79	29	65	10	6	.273	.312	.481	.794	109.8	114.0	.349	2.5
1961	152	606	575	78	159	27	2	26	87	27	78	8	2	.277	.307	.466	.774	99.1	101.6	.336	2.2
1962	18	48	42	2	6	1	0	0	1	6	8	0	0	.143	.250	.167	.417	2.9	13.9	.193	-0.4
1963	66	240	217	20	53	9	1	6	26	17	42	4	2	.244	.303	.378	.680	92.8	94.0	.308	0.7
1964	99	319	289	33	65	13	2	9	40	19	45	1	2	.225	.269	.377	.646	75.5	81.1	.285	0.2
1965	60	127	112	8	30	4	1	1	12	11	27	0	2	.268	.339	.348	.687	99.1	98.4	.317	0.5
1966	69	153	139	9	25	2	0	3	10	13	31	3	1	.180	.255	.259	.514	51.8	52.5	.241	-0.3

Career totals

1,115

3,784

3,446

429

877

161

115

RBI

432

243

535

.2545

OBP

.3051

SLG

.4176

OPS

.7227

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
1960-07-26	CWS @ BOS Gameday	6	4	5	2	0	1	4	0	10
1961-05-31	CIN @ LAD Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	3	1	9
1955-09-05	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1956-05-12	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	1	3	0	8
1960-08-07	MIN @ CWS Gameday	3	2	3	0	1	1	3	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-05-01	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-05-01	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-05-03	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-05-07	PIT @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-05-10	PIT @ ATL 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.