MLB / Players

Gil Hodges

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornApril 4, 1924 · Princeton, IN, USA

MLB debutOctober 3, 1943

Final gameMay 5, 1963

Seasons18 (1943–1963)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1943; Brooklyn Dodgers 1947–1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1961; New York Mets 1962–1963

Percentile snapshot

1958 season — qualified batters

141

39.4

532

19.7

475

25.4

36.6

123

25.4

4.2

8.5

RBI

43.7

46.5

11.3

74.6

52.1

.259

28.2

OBP

.330

35.2

SLG

.434

49.3

OPS

.764

47.9

wRC+

95.9

28.2

OPS+

95.4

26.8

wOBA

.340

46.5

sWAR

0.5

of 72 qualified 1958 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.8

81.3

OPS+

121.1

sWAR

32.5

96.9

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
1943	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	42.8	-0.6	.255	0.0
1947	28	91	77	9	12	3	1	1	7	14	19	0	0	.156	.286	.260	.545	46.2	44.2	.271	-0.1
1948	134	528	481	48	120	18	5	11	70	43	61	7	0	.249	.311	.376	.687	80.8	83.5	.317	0.0
1949	156	676	596	94	170	23	4	23	115	66	64	10	0	.285	.360	.453	.813	114.6	114.3	.370	2.1
1950	153	646	561	98	159	26	2	32	113	73	73	6	0	.283	.367	.508	.875	126.3	126.5	.388	2.9
1951	158	681	582	118	156	25	3	40	103	93	99	9	7	.268	.374	.527	.901	139.2	138.7	.400	4.2
1952	153	619	508	87	129	27	1	32	102	107	90	2	4	.254	.386	.500	.886	147.0	144.0	.402	4.3
1953	141	598	520	101	157	22	7	31	122	75	84	1	4	.302	.393	.550	.943	142.0	141.2	.411	4.0
1954	154	678	579	106	176	23	5	42	130	74	84	3	3	.304	.373	.579	.952	140.1	142.1	.407	4.3
1955	150	642	546	75	158	24	5	27	102	80	91	2	1	.289	.377	.500	.877	131.5	129.2	.386	3.4
1956	153	633	550	86	146	29	4	32	87	76	91	3	3	.265	.354	.507	.861	124.8	123.4	.374	2.7
1957	150	654	579	94	173	28	7	27	98	63	91	5	3	.299	.366	.511	.877	129.1	126.9	.383	3.2
1958	141	532	475	68	123	15	1	22	64	52	87	8	2	.259	.330	.434	.764	95.9	95.4	.340	0.5
1959	124	480	413	57	114	19	2	25	80	58	92	3	2	.276	.367	.513	.880	127.6	126.0	.385	2.3
1960	101	231	197	22	39	8	1	8	30	26	37	0	1	.198	.291	.371	.661	76.5	76.7	.301	-0.7
1961	109	245	215	25	52	4	0	8	31	24	43	3	1	.242	.313	.372	.685	81.1	80.8	.309	-0.6
1962	54	142	127	15	32	1	0	9	17	15	27	0	0	.252	.331	.472	.803	109.2	109.2	.357	0.2
1963	11	25	22	2	5	0	0	0	3	3	2	0	0	.227	.320	.227	.547	65.6	59.2	.272	-0.1

Career totals

2,071

213th-most career G

8,104

279th-most career PA

7,030

308th-most career AB

1,105

263rd-most career R

1,921

340th-most career H

295

370

83rd-most career HR

RBI

1,274

129th-most career RBI

943

155th-most career BB

1,137

277th-most career SO

.2733

OBP

.3590

SLG

.4868

181st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8458

218th-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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1950-08-31	ATL @ LAD Gameday	6	5	5	0	0	4	9	17
1949-06-25	LAD @ PIT Gameday	6	4	5	1	1	2	4	14
1959-05-04	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	2	2	11
1951-08-29	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	7	10
1951-04-27	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	4	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-22	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-27	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-28	LAD @ PHI 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

Hall of Fame, 2022 (Veterans - Golden Age Era)

3× Gold Glove8× 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.