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Jim Gentile
James Edward Gentile (Diamond Jim)

Bats Left, Throws Left
Height 6' 4", Weight 215 lb.

Debut September 10, 1957
  vs. CHC 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Final Game September 30, 1966
Born June 3, 1934 in San Francisco, CA

Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1952. (All Transactions)

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Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons /
Gamelogs: / Splits: / HR Log / PI Finders:Game / Streak / Event / PI vs. Pitcher
/ Neutralize Stats 
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1957 23 BRO NL   4    6    1    1   0  0   1    1   0  0   1   1  .167  .286  .667  138    4   0   0   0   0   0
 1958 24 LAD NL  12   30    0    4   1  0   0    4   0  0   4   6  .133  .235  .167    8    5   0   0   1   0   1
 1960 26 BAL AL 138  384   67  112  17  0  21   98   0  0  68  72  .292  .403  .500  145  192   0   5   5   7   8 MVP-15,RoY-2,AS
 1961 27 BAL AL 148  486   96  147  25  2  46  141   1  1  96 106  .302  .423  .646  187  314   0   8   5  11  12 MVP-3,AS
 1962 28 BAL AL 152  545   80  137  21  1  33   87   1  0  77 100  .251  .346  .475  125  259   0  10  16   7  13 AS
 1963 29 BAL AL 145  496   65  123  16  1  24   72   1  0  76 101  .248  .353  .429  122  213   1   3   9   6  14
 1964 30 KCA AL 136  439   71  110  10  0  28   71   0  0  84 122  .251  .372  .465  128  204   1   5   6   4   9
 1965 31 TOT    119  345   36   84  16  1  17   53   0  0  43  98  .243  .337  .443  125  153   2   1   8   6   8
         KCA AL  38  118   14   29   5  0  10   22   0  0   9  26  .246  .305  .542  137   64   0   0   1   1   3
         HOU NL  81  227   22   55  11  1   7   31   0  0  34  72  .242  .352  .392  117   89   2   1   7   5   5
 1966 32 TOT     82  191   18   41   7  1   9   22   0  0  26  57  .215  .321  .403  107   77   1   0   4   4   4
         HOU NL  49  144   16   35   6  1   7   18   0  0  21  39  .243  .355  .444  128   64   1   0   3   4   3
         CLE AL  33   47    2    6   1  0   2    4   0  0   5  18  .128  .212  .277   39   13   0   0   1   0   1
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 9 Seasons      936 2922  434  759 113  6 179  549   3  1 475 663  .260  .368  .486  136 1421   5  32  54  45  69
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        506   75  131  20  1  31   95   1  0  82 115  .260  .368  .486  136  246   1   6   9   8  12
 Career High    152  545   96  147  25  2  46  141   1  1  96 122  .302  .423  .646  187  314   2  10  16  11  14
Special Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1957 23 BRO NL    7    5    1   5.4   110| .167  .279| .286  .343| .667  .432| .953  .775| 138  .572   0.2   0.0   0%
 1958 24 LAD NL   34   27    1   1.0   109| .133  .274| .235  .343| .167  .428| .402  .771|   8  .055  -4.1  -0.4   0%
 1960 26 BAL AL  464  285   82   7.8   100| .292  .262| .403  .336| .500  .401| .903  .737| 145  .731  27.3   2.7   0%
 1961 27 BAL AL  601  360  138  10.2   100| .302  .259| .423  .334| .646  .403|1.069  .737| 187  .809  63.8   6.1  50%
 1962 28 BAL AL  639  431   92   5.7    97| .251  .256| .346  .327| .475  .399| .821  .726| 125  .604  20.7   2.0 100%
 1963 29 BAL AL  582  391   77   5.3    91| .248  .251| .353  .316| .429  .387| .782  .703| 122  .606  17.0   1.7 100%
 1964 30 KCA AL  533  344   81   6.3    99| .251  .260| .372  .329| .465  .404| .837  .733| 128  .676  19.5   2.0   0%
 1965 31 TOT     397  272   52   5.2    88| .243  .249| .337  .314| .443  .378| .780  .692| 125  .603  11.9   1.2   0%
         KCA AL  128   92   19   5.6    91| .246  .250| .305  .319| .542  .382| .847  .702| 137  .643   4.9   0.5   0%
         HOU NL  269  180   33   5.0    87| .242  .249| .352  .311| .392  .376| .744  .687| 117  .581   7.0   0.7   0%
 1966 32 TOT     222  155   27   4.7    90| .215  .254| .321  .314| .403  .385| .724  .699| 107  .556   2.3   0.2   0%
         HOU NL  170  113   24   5.7    90| .243  .256| .355  .314| .444  .386| .799  .700| 128  .635   6.2   0.6   0%
         CLE AL   52   42    3   1.9    90| .128  .248| .212  .315| .277  .383| .489  .698|  39  .216  -3.9  -0.4   0%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 9 Seasons      3479 2270  551   6.5    96| .260  .256| .368  .326| .486  .396| .854  .721| 136  .675 158.6  15.5  75%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)

Pitch Data Summary (Show or Hide)

Fielding  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons 
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  GS   Inn  
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+

 1957 23 BRO NL  1B    2     14    0    0    3 1.000  .993  7.00  8.80 12.60  9.63    2   10.0
 1958 24 LAD NL  1B    8     50    2    1    9  .981  .990  6.50  8.11  8.31  9.54    8   56.3
 1960 26 BAL AL  1B  124    885   52    7   98  .993  .991  7.56  8.04  9.40  9.58   95  897.0 AS
 1961 27 BAL AL  1B  144   1209  100   14  129  .989  .990  9.09  6.94  9.61  7.34  137 1225.3 AS
 1962 28 BAL AL  1B  150   1214  121   16  121  .988  .990  8.90  6.67  9.14  6.84  149 1315.0 AS
 1963 29 BAL AL  1B  143   1185  110    6  122  .995  .990  9.06  6.99  9.46  7.30  138 1232.3
 1964 30 KCA AL  1B  128   1018   84   13   92  .988  .991  8.61  7.81  9.02  8.18  128 1100.0
 1965 31 TOT     1B  103    783   60    9   65  .989  .990  8.18  8.36  9.51  9.87   91  798.0
         KCA AL  1B   35    239   17    5   24  .981  .991  7.31  7.88  8.98  9.56   29  256.7
         HOU NL  1B   68    544   43    4   41  .993  .990  8.63  8.60  9.76 10.02   62  541.3
 1966 32 TOT     1B   52    367   35    7   32  .983  .989  7.73  8.44  8.75  9.85   44  413.7
         HOU NL  1B   43    321   30    4   28  .989  .989  8.16  8.50  8.97  9.90   38  352.0
         CLE AL  1B    9     46    5    3    4  .944  .990  5.67  8.18  7.44  9.58    6   61.7

+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+

 1957 23 BRO NL  1B    2     14    0    0    3 1.000  .993  7.00  8.80 12.60  9.63    2   10.0
 1958 24 LAD NL  1B    8     50    2    1    9  .981  .990  6.50  8.11  8.31  9.54    8   56.3
 1960 26 BAL AL  1B  124    885   52    7   98  .993  .991  7.56  8.04  9.40  9.58   95  897.0
 1961 27 BAL AL  1B  144   1209  100   14  129  .989  .990  9.09  6.94  9.61  7.34  137 1225.3
 1962 28 BAL AL  1B  150   1214  121   16  121  .988  .990  8.90  6.67  9.14  6.84  149 1315.0
 1963 29 BAL AL  1B  143   1185  110    6  122  .995  .990  9.06  6.99  9.46  7.30  138 1232.3
 1964 30 KCA AL  1B  128   1018   84   13   92  .988  .991  8.61  7.81  9.02  8.18  128 1100.0
 1965 31 TOT     1B  103    783   60    9   65  .989  .990  8.18  8.36  9.51  9.87   91  798.0
         KCA AL  1B   35    239   17    5   24  .981  .991  7.31  7.88  8.98  9.56   29  256.7
         HOU NL  1B   68    544   43    4   41  .993  .990  8.63  8.60  9.76 10.02   62  541.3
 1966 32 TOT     1B   52    367   35    7   32  .983  .989  7.73  8.44  8.75  9.85   44  413.7
         HOU NL  1B   43    321   30    4   28  .989  .989  8.16  8.50  8.97  9.90   38  352.0
         CLE AL  1B    9     46    5    3    4  .944  .990  5.67  8.18  7.44  9.58    6   61.7

+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+
 Position Total  1B* 854   6725  564   73  671  .990  .990  8.54  7.47  9.31  8.11  792 7047.7
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+
 Overall Total       854   6725  564   73  671  .990  .990  8.54  7.47  9.31  8.11  792   7048
An Important note about our fielding stats

All-Star Game Batting 

 Year   Tm  Lg  GS  AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO  SB CS  SH  SF HBP
+------+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+---------+
 1960-1 BAL AL       2   0   1  0  0  0   0   0   1   0  0   0   0   0           
 1960-2 BAL AL       Was selected, but did not play in the game.
 1961-1 BAL AL       2   0   0  0  0  0   0   0   2   0  0   0   0   0           
 1961-2 BAL AL       Was selected, but did not play in the game.
 1962-1 BAL AL   *   3   0   0  0  0  0   0   1   1   0  0   0   0   0 Starting 1B 
 1962-2 BAL AL   *   4   0   1  0  0  0   0   1   1   0  0   0   0   0 Starting 1B 
+------+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+---------+
 Played 4/6      2  11   0   2  0  0  0   0   2   5   0  0   0   0   0  .182  .308  .182 
+-------------+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+
Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

All-Star
1960-1 *
1960-2
1961-1 *
1961-2
1962-1 (1B)
1962-2 (1B)

MVP (YrLg-Rk-Shr)
1960-AL-15-0.06
1961-AL-3-0.56
Car-357-0.62 shares

Batting Average
1961 AL-.302-5

On-base %
1961 AL-.423-3

Slugging %
1961 AL-.646-3

OPS
1961 AL-1.069-3
1964 AL-.837-9

Runs
1961 AL-96-8

Total Bases
1961 AL-314-6

Home Runs
1961 AL-46-3
1962 AL-33-5
1964 AL-28-10

RBI
1960 AL-98-5
1961 AL-141-2

Bases on Balls
1961 AL-96-6
1963 AL-76-9
1964 AL-84-6

Strikeouts
1961 AL-106-7
1962 AL-100-8
1963 AL-101-9
1964 AL-122-6

Adjusted OPS+
1961 AL-187-3
Car-136-99

Runs Created
1961 AL-138-4

Adjusted Batting Runs
1960 AL-27-6
1961 AL-64-3

Batting Wins
1960 AL-2.7-6
1961 AL-6.1-3

Extra-Base Hits
1961 AL-73-4

Times on Base
1961 AL-254-9

Offensive Win%
1961 AL-.809-3

Hit By Pitch
1960 AL-7-9
1961 AL-11-2
1962 AL-7-8

Sac. Flies
1961 AL-8-6
1962 AL-10-1

Intentional Walks
1962 AL-16-1
1963 AL-9-4

At Bats per Home Run
1961 AL-10.6-3
1962 AL-16.5-5
1964 AL-15.7-5
Car-16.3-35

  

Gray Ink: Batting - 36 (665) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 16.0 (893) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 29.5 (583) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

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Transactions 

Before 1952 Season: Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent.

October 19, 1959: Traded by the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Baltimore Orioles for players to be named later and $50,000. The Baltimore Orioles sent Willy Miranda (March 15, 1960) and Bill Lajoie (minors) (March 15, 1960) to the Los Angeles Dodgers to complete the trade.

November 27, 1963: Traded by the Baltimore Orioles with $25,000 to the Kansas City Athletics for Norm Siebern.

June 4, 1965: Traded by the Kansas City Athletics to the Houston Astros for a player to be named later and Jesse Hickman. The Houston Astros sent Ernie Fazio (October 15, 1965) to the Kansas City Athletics to complete the trade.

July 19, 1966: Traded by the Houston Astros to the Cleveland Indians for Tony Curry.

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
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