MLB / Players

Gene Tenace

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 10, 1946 · Russellton, PA, USA

MLB debutMay 29, 1969

Final gameSeptember 30, 1983

Seasons15 (1969–1983)

Oakland Athletics 1969–1976; San Diego Padres 1977–1980; St. Louis Cardinals 1981–1982; Pittsburgh Pirates 1983

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

151

59.7

582

39.6

463

8.6

122

10.1

8.6

45.3

66.2

RBI

43.9

105

97.8

106

6.5

12.2

43.2

.263

24.5

OBP

.403

94.2

SLG

.445

56.8

OPS

.848

79.1

wRC+

145.1

88.5

OPS+

138.1

84.9

wOBA

.393

84.9

sWAR

5.4

88.5

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

142.1

OPS+

136.1

93.9

sWAR

49.1

98.8

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
1969	16	40	38	1	6	0	0	1	2	1	15	0	0	.158	.200	.237	.437	18.1	24.8	.207	-0.1
1970	38	128	105	19	32	6	0	7	20	23	30	0	2	.305	.430	.562	.992	180.6	177.4	.443	2.0
1971	65	211	179	26	49	7	0	7	25	29	34	2	1	.274	.381	.430	.811	143.2	134.4	.382	2.3
1972	82	256	227	22	51	5	3	5	32	24	42	0	0	.225	.307	.339	.646	100.2	98.7	.308	1.2
1973	160	636	510	83	132	18	2	24	84	101	94	2	2	.259	.387	.443	.830	143.5	141.5	.382	4.5
1974	158	612	484	71	102	17	1	26	73	110	105	2	9	.211	.367	.411	.778	137.6	132.7	.366	4.6
1975	158	623	498	83	127	17	0	29	87	106	127	7	4	.255	.395	.464	.859	152.2	147.0	.399	6.6
1976	128	508	417	64	104	19	1	22	66	81	91	5	4	.249	.373	.458	.831	152.1	148.3	.388	4.8
1977	147	581	437	66	102	24	4	15	61	125	119	5	3	.233	.415	.410	.824	139.5	132.1	.384	5.3
1978	142	515	401	60	90	18	4	16	61	101	98	6	5	.224	.392	.409	.801	140.4	132.6	.379	4.2
1979	151	582	463	61	122	16	4	20	67	105	106	2	6	.263	.403	.445	.848	145.1	138.1	.393	5.4
1980	133	416	316	46	70	11	1	17	50	92	63	4	4	.222	.399	.424	.823	140.8	135.7	.382	4.2
1981	58	174	129	26	30	7	0	5	22	38	26	0	0	.233	.416	.403	.819	144.7	131.6	.394	1.8
1982	66	165	124	18	32	9	0	7	18	36	31	1	1	.258	.436	.500	.936	171.6	161.6	.434	2.3
1983	53	78	62	7	11	5	0	0	6	12	17	0	1	.177	.346	.258	.604	84.2	69.1	.311	0.0

Career totals

1,555

5,525

4,390

653

1,060

179

201

381st-most career HR

RBI

674

984

131st-most career BB

998

394th-most career SO

.2415

OBP

.3879

130th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4287

OPS

.8166

379th-highest career OPS

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
1977-04-18	SD @ ATL Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	5	1	9
1978-07-16	SD @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	5	1	9
1978-07-28	STL @ SD Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	5	1	9
1977-06-10	SD @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1973-09-14	TEX @ ATH Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	5	0	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× World Series MVP1× 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.