MLB / Players

Jim Ray Hart

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb
BornOctober 30, 1941 · Hookerton, NC, USA
MLB debutJuly 7, 1963
Final gameMay 27, 1974
Seasons12 (1963–1974)

San Francisco Giants 1963–1972; New York Yankees 1973; San Francisco Giants 1973; New York Yankees 1974

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified batters

G
136
11.4
PA
535
17
AB
480
15.9
R
67
54.5
H
124
21.6
2B
14
10.2
3B
3
34.1
HR
23
84.1
RBI
78
79.5
BB
46
50
SO
74
50
SB
3
19.3
CS
1
86.4
BA
.258
47.7
OBP
.323
45.5
SLG
.444
76.1
OPS
.767
70.5
wRC+
129.9
67
OPS+
130.0
71.6
wOBA
.348
65.9
sWAR
3.5
54.5

of 89 qualified 1968 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+
129.9
90.2
OPS+
128.8
89.6
sWAR
28.3
96.2

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1963725201410023600.200.360.250.61084.581.2.2930.1
1964153625566711621563181479452.286.342.498.840134.5133.1.3715.1
1965160649591911773062396477564.299.349.487.837134.5132.4.3725.1
1966156636578881652343393487525.285.342.510.853134.2132.7.3745.0
19671586655789816726729997710011.289.373.509.882156.2153.4.3976.5
1968136535480671241432378467431.258.323.444.767129.9130.0.3483.5
196995271236276090326284900.254.343.331.67497.091.7.3230.5
1970762922553072121837302900.282.360.431.791110.8112.7.3551.3
197131453951000256801.256.356.410.766125.8118.2.3610.3
19722486791024505861001.304.360.557.917162.7156.2.4141.0
197311938534229861321353394602.251.326.415.741107.6110.7.3340.4
19741022191100003700.053.182.053.234-23.5-28.8.145-0.3

Career totals

G
1,125
PA
4,236
AB
3,783
R
518
H
1,052
2B
148
3B
29
HR
170
500th-most career HR
RBI
578
BB
380
SO
573
SB
17
BA
.2781
OBP
.3453
SLG
.4674
310th-highest career slugging percentage
OPS
.8127
410th-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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1968-07-12SF @ CIN Gameday5441025011
1970-07-08SF @ ATL Gameday5141117010
1964-06-23SF @ CIN Gameday4331022110
1970-07-24SF @ WSH Gameday423002409
1968-04-14PHI @ SF Gameday423002309

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

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.