Jim Gentile

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornJune 3, 1934 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1957

Final gameSeptember 30, 1966

Seasons9 (1957–1966)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958; Baltimore Orioles 1960–1963; Kansas City Athletics 1964; Houston Astros 1965; Kansas City Athletics 1965; Cleveland Indians 1966; Houston Astros 1966

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified batters

136

7.4

533

13.8

439

1.1

43.6

110

3.2

1.1

79.8

RBI

52.1

92.6

122

7.4

88.3

.251

20.2

OBP

.372

81.9

SLG

.465

70.2

OPS

.837

77.7

wRC+

131.2

73.4

OPS+

126.9

71.3

wOBA

.374

78.7

sWAR

2.7

46.8

of 95 qualified 1964 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

136.1

94.5

OPS+

136.7

94.3

sWAR

19.2

93.2

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
1957	4	7	6	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	.167	.286	.667	.952	138.3	139.7	.396	0.0
1958	12	34	30	0	4	1	0	0	4	4	6	0	0	.133	.235	.167	.402	-7.8	6.3	.189	-0.4
1960	138	464	384	67	112	17	0	21	98	68	72	0	0	.292	.403	.500	.903	148.5	146.7	.405	3.3
1961	148	601	486	96	147	25	2	46	141	96	106	1	1	.302	.423	.646	1.069	184.1	188.9	.458	7.1
1962	152	639	545	80	137	21	1	33	87	77	100	1	0	.251	.346	.475	.821	119.9	126.5	.355	2.3
1963	145	582	496	65	123	16	1	24	72	76	101	1	0	.248	.353	.429	.782	124.5	123.6	.350	2.4
1964	136	533	439	71	110	10	0	28	71	84	122	0	0	.251	.372	.465	.837	131.2	126.9	.374	2.7
1965	119	397	345	36	84	16	1	17	53	43	98	0	0	.243	.337	.443	.780	121.2	121.6	.347	1.4
1966	82	222	191	18	41	7	1	9	22	26	57	0	0	.215	.321	.403	.724	106.3	106.0	.325	0.4

Career totals

936

3,479

2,922

434

759

113

179

470th-most career HR

RBI

549

475

663

.2598

OBP

.3682

321st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4863

184th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8545

178th-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
1961-08-23	BAL @ ATH Gameday	6	3	4	1	2	3	0	11
1961-07-01	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	4	1	10
1960-06-26	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	7	0	9
1960-08-07	BAL @ CLE Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	0	9
1961-06-27	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	0	9

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

3× 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.