MLB / Players

Jim Gilliam

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 17, 1928 · Nashville, TN, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1953

Final gameSeptember 30, 1966

Seasons17 (1946–1966)

Baltimore Elite Giants 1946–1948; Brooklyn Dodgers 1953–1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1966

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified batters

148

43.6

605

48.5

525

34.7

61.4

148

54.5

71.3

40.6

15.8

RBI

29.7

75.2

90.1

27.7

.282

73.3

OBP

.354

76.2

SLG

.383

40.6

OPS

.737

49.5

wRC+

124.5

66.3

OPS+

120.5

65.3

wOBA

.340

57.4

sWAR

4.2

74.3

of 102 qualified 1963 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.5

40.7

OPS+

94.5

30.6

sWAR

31.4

96.8

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
1946	21	56	48	4	14	2	2	0	6	5	0	1	0	.292	.370	.417	.787	116.8	119.5	.377	0.3
1947	59	248	214	40	55	10	3	0	27	26	0	7	0	.257	.340	.332	.672	87.9	84.3	.328	0.6
1948	58	261	219	48	63	9	4	0	33	35	0	8	0	.288	.388	.365	.754	121.9	118.5	.369	1.7
1953	151	710	605	125	168	31	17	6	63	100	38	21	14	.278	.383	.415	.798	110.8	106.8	.364	3.5
1954	146	695	607	107	171	28	8	13	52	76	30	8	7	.282	.361	.418	.779	103.1	101.3	.353	2.7
1955	147	627	538	110	134	20	8	7	40	70	37	15	15	.249	.341	.355	.696	87.7	84.3	.321	1.0
1956	153	701	594	102	178	23	8	6	43	95	39	21	9	.300	.399	.396	.794	118.4	110.5	.364	3.8
1957	149	695	617	89	154	26	4	2	37	64	31	26	10	.250	.323	.314	.637	70.5	68.1	.297	0.0
1958	147	636	555	81	145	25	5	2	43	78	22	18	11	.261	.352	.335	.687	84.2	79.0	.323	0.6
1959	145	655	553	91	156	18	4	3	34	96	25	23	10	.282	.387	.345	.732	100.3	92.5	.345	2.4
1960	151	669	557	96	138	20	2	5	40	96	28	12	9	.248	.359	.318	.677	92.7	84.3	.324	1.9
1961	144	531	439	74	107	26	3	4	32	79	34	8	4	.244	.358	.344	.702	95.0	87.6	.330	1.6
1962	160	702	588	83	159	24	1	4	43	93	35	17	7	.270	.370	.335	.705	103.1	95.2	.336	2.9
1963	148	605	525	77	148	27	4	6	49	60	28	19	5	.282	.354	.383	.737	124.5	120.5	.340	4.2
1964	116	390	334	44	76	8	3	2	27	42	21	4	4	.228	.318	.287	.605	84.3	79.3	.288	0.8
1965	111	432	372	54	104	19	4	4	39	53	31	9	5	.280	.374	.384	.758	127.3	123.2	.350	2.9
1966	88	273	235	30	51	9	0	1	16	34	17	2	1	.217	.315	.268	.583	76.0	71.9	.277	0.2

Career totals

2,094

196th-most career G

8,886

174th-most career PA

7,600

204th-most career AB

1,255

151st-most career R

2,021

283rd-most career H

325

392nd-most career 2B

284th-most career 3B

RBI

624

1,102

83rd-most career BB

416

219

314th-most career SB

.2659

OBP

.3601

477th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3554

OPS

.7155

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
1954-04-29	LAD @ CIN Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	3	0	10
1954-06-13	LAD @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	2	1	7
1960-06-14	PHI @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	2	0	7
1962-08-25	LAD @ NYM Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	1	1	7
1965-07-27	CIN @ LAD Gameday	3	1	3	1	1	4	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-05-05	HOM @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-05	HOM @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-09	BEG @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-10	BEG @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-12	BEG @ HOM 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

1× Rookie of the Year3× 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.