MLB / Players

Jim Hickman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 192 lb

BornMay 10, 1937 · Henning, TN, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1962

Final gameJuly 14, 1974

Seasons13 (1962–1974)

New York Mets 1962–1966; Los Angeles Dodgers 1967; Chicago Cubs 1968–1973; St. Louis Cardinals 1974

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified batters

149

46.9

613

41.6

514

32.7

102

86.7

162

65.5

82.3

46.9

86.7

RBI

115

93.8

86.7

22.1

78.8

.315

89.4

OBP

.419

96.5

SLG

.582

94.7

OPS

1.001

97.3

wRC+

157.8

93.8

OPS+

154.2

93.8

wOBA

.443

97.3

sWAR

5.7

87.6

of 114 qualified 1970 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.8

59.2

OPS+

106.3

55.1

sWAR

14.9

90.9

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
1962	140	452	392	54	96	18	2	13	46	47	96	4	4	.245	.328	.401	.729	92.2	91.1	.332	1.0
1963	146	546	494	53	113	21	6	17	51	44	120	0	5	.229	.291	.399	.690	95.1	94.7	.313	1.5
1964	139	448	409	48	105	14	1	11	57	36	90	0	1	.257	.319	.377	.696	95.8	95.1	.316	1.3
1965	141	400	369	32	87	18	0	15	40	27	76	3	1	.236	.291	.407	.697	94.5	95.8	.312	0.6
1966	58	174	160	15	38	7	0	4	16	13	34	2	1	.238	.299	.356	.655	84.7	82.3	.301	-0.1
1967	65	114	98	7	16	6	1	0	10	14	28	1	1	.163	.268	.245	.513	58.5	54.6	.251	-0.3
1968	75	213	188	22	42	6	3	5	23	18	38	1	1	.223	.290	.367	.657	90.7	91.8	.305	0.2
1969	134	389	338	38	80	11	2	21	54	47	74	2	1	.237	.326	.467	.794	110.0	110.0	.359	1.2
1970	149	613	514	102	162	33	4	32	115	93	99	0	1	.315	.419	.582	1.001	157.8	154.2	.443	5.7
1971	117	444	383	50	98	13	2	19	60	50	61	0	1	.256	.342	.449	.791	111.5	111.4	.358	1.3
1972	115	425	368	65	100	15	2	17	64	52	64	3	1	.272	.364	.462	.826	131.1	124.9	.380	2.2
1973	92	249	201	27	49	1	2	3	20	42	42	1	1	.244	.368	.313	.682	94.2	85.9	.332	0.1
1974	50	68	60	5	16	0	0	2	4	8	10	0	0	.267	.353	.367	.720	110.3	103.6	.348	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
1967	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	2.0	4.50	1.000	0.00	9.16	295.0	69.0	-0.3

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

1,421

4,535

3,974

518

1,002

163

159

RBI

560

491

832

.2521

OBP

.3346

SLG

.4258

OPS

.7604

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.500

WHIP

1.0000

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
1965-09-03	NYM @ STL Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	3	4	0	13
1963-08-07	STL @ NYM Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1969-08-09	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1970-05-28	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1962-09-01	NYM @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-06-23	SF @ LAD Gameday	2.0	2	1	1	0	0	1

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× 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.