MLB / Players

Jim Gantner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 5, 1953 · Fond du Lac, WI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1976

Final gameOctober 3, 1992

Seasons17 (1976–1992)

Milwaukee Brewers 1976–1992

Percentile snapshot

1991 season — qualified batters

140

21.3

567

27.9

526

40.2

21.3

149

50.8

55.7

2.5

RBI

7.4

8.2

97.5

24.6

36.1

.283

61.5

OBP

.320

24.6

SLG

.361

15.6

OPS

.681

13.9

wRC+

88.3

13.1

OPS+

90.7

13.9

wOBA

.308

10.7

sWAR

1.4

18.9

of 123 qualified 1991 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.9

18.7

OPS+

87.8

19.7

sWAR

15.7

91.4

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
1976	26	79	69	6	17	1	0	0	7	6	11	1	0	.246	.316	.261	.577	75.9	71.6	.285	0.1
1977	14	49	47	4	14	1	0	1	2	2	5	2	1	.298	.327	.383	.710	94.1	93.5	.321	0.2
1978	43	105	97	14	21	1	0	1	8	5	10	2	0	.216	.269	.258	.527	47.8	49.6	.252	-0.2
1979	70	234	208	29	59	10	3	2	22	16	17	3	5	.284	.336	.389	.726	96.8	96.7	.328	0.9
1980	132	457	415	47	117	21	3	4	40	30	29	11	10	.282	.330	.376	.706	94.9	96.4	.320	1.5
1981	107	397	352	35	94	14	1	2	33	29	29	3	6	.267	.325	.330	.654	92.4	94.2	.304	1.2
1982	132	485	447	48	132	17	2	4	43	26	36	6	3	.295	.335	.369	.704	98.4	99.1	.318	1.8
1983	161	662	603	85	170	23	8	11	74	38	46	5	6	.282	.329	.401	.730	105.9	107.1	.327	3.0
1984	153	658	613	61	173	27	1	3	56	30	51	6	5	.282	.314	.344	.658	85.1	85.8	.300	1.4
1985	143	573	523	63	133	15	4	5	44	33	42	11	8	.254	.300	.327	.627	68.9	72.5	.281	0.1
1986	139	542	497	58	136	25	1	7	38	26	50	13	7	.274	.313	.370	.684	81.4	83.5	.306	0.8
1987	81	294	265	37	72	14	0	4	30	19	22	6	2	.272	.331	.370	.701	84.8	84.6	.313	0.6
1988	155	596	539	67	149	28	2	0	47	34	50	20	8	.276	.322	.336	.658	86.0	85.0	.304	1.3
1989	116	453	409	51	112	18	3	0	34	21	33	20	6	.274	.321	.333	.654	86.2	86.3	.304	1.0
1990	88	358	323	36	85	8	5	0	25	29	19	18	3	.263	.328	.319	.647	86.0	82.7	.307	0.8
1991	140	567	526	63	149	27	4	2	47	27	34	4	6	.283	.320	.361	.681	88.3	90.7	.308	1.4
1992	101	273	256	22	63	12	1	1	18	12	17	6	2	.246	.278	.313	.590	62.3	67.4	.271	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	2.000	0.00	2.77	65.9	—	0.9

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,801

411th-most career G

6,782

6,189

462nd-most career AB

726

1,696

489th-most career H

262

RBI

568

383

501

137

.2740

OBP

.3192

SLG

.3514

OPS

.6706

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

0.00

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
1987-05-01	MIL @ SEA Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	1	5	0	8
1983-07-27	MIL @ MIN Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	1	4	1	8
1982-05-09	MIN @ MIL Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	3	0	8
1985-05-29	CLE @ MIL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7
1988-08-02	NYY @ MIL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1979-08-29	MIL @ KC Gameday	1.0	2	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.