MLB / Players

Jim Golden

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb
BornMarch 20, 1936 · Eldon, MO, USA
MLB debutSeptember 30, 1960
Final gameApril 23, 1963
Seasons4 (1960–1963)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1960–1961; Houston Colt .45's 1962–1963

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
0.6
59.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19601331110000100.333.333.6671.000167.4161.4.433-0.1
196128330000000100.000.000.000.000-122.1-100.0.000-0.4
196243595471222081600.222.250.333.58356.959.8.2641.3
19633000000000000-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19601110000654417.06.431.4295.145.08129.960.8-0.1
19612801100052272018742.05.791.7143.865.40133.170.2-0.4
1962371871115216369508813152.74.071.3955.193.6698.091.81.3
196331010001242506.35.682.2117.111.8759.854.9-0.1

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

G
75
PA
65
AB
60
R
8
H
13
2B
3
3B
2
HR
0
RBI
8
BB
1
SO
8
SB
0
BA
.2167
OBP
.2419
SLG
.3333
OPS
.5752

Pitching

G (P)
69
GS
20
W
9
L
13
SV
1
CG
5
SHO
2
IP
208
SO (P)
115
BB allowed
76
ERA
4.543
WHIP
1.4856
K/9
4.98

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1962-06-22HOU @ NYM Gameday533020207
1962-09-20HOU @ NYM Gameday402100303
1962-04-25STL @ HOU Gameday101100102
1960-09-30CHC @ LAD Gameday311100002
1962-05-01HOU @ STL Gameday201000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1962-05-21NYM @ HOU Gameday9.0721470
1962-06-22HOU @ NYM Gameday9.0733470
1962-05-26PIT @ HOU Gameday9.0300060
1962-09-20HOU @ NYM Gameday7.1922150
1962-05-17HOU @ LAD Gameday8.1533240

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.