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Gene Clines
Eugene Anthony Clines

Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9" , Weight: 170 lb.

Born: October 6, 1946 in San Pablo, CA
High School: Harry Ellis (Richmond, CA)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 6th round of the 1966 amateur draft.
Signed June 17, 1966. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 28, 1970
Final Game: May 8, 1979
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Gene Clines
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Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1970	23	PIT	NL	31	39	37	4	15	2	0	0	3	2	1	2	5	.405	.436	.459	.895	144	17	2	0	0	0	0	/987
1971	24	PIT	NL	97	300	273	52	84	12	4	1	24	15	6	22	36	.308	.366	.392	.758	114	107	1	3	2	0	0	879
1972	25	PIT	NL	107	334	311	52	104	15	6	0	17	12	6	16	47	.334	.369	.421	.790	126	131	7	2	3	2	1	978	MVP-20
1973	26	PIT	NL	110	337	304	42	80	11	3	1	23	8	7	26	36	.263	.327	.329	.656	85	100	12	3	4	0	0	89/7
1974	27	PIT	NL	107	317	276	29	62	5	1	0	14	14	2	30	40	.225	.307	.250	.557	60	69	11	4	4	3	2	879
1975	28	NYM	NL	82	216	203	25	46	6	3	0	10	4	4	11	21	.227	.269	.286	.554	57	58	4	1	0	1	1	87/9
1976	29	TEX	AL	116	480	446	52	123	12	3	0	38	11	9	16	52	.276	.304	.316	.620	81	141	17	4	10	4	0	7D/89
1977	30	CHC	NL	101	269	239	27	70	12	2	3	41	1	2	25	25	.293	.358	.397	.756	95	95	7	1	1	3	2	79/8
1978	31	CHC	NL	109	254	229	31	59	10	2	0	17	4	3	21	28	.258	.321	.319	.640	72	73	5	1	2	1	1	798
1979	32	CHC	NL	10	10	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	6	2	0	0	0	0	0
10 Seasons				870	2556	2328	314	645	85	24	5	187	71	40	169	291	.277	.329	.341	.670	88	793	66	19	26	14	7
162 Game Avg.				162	476	433	58	120	16	4	1	35	13	7	31	54	.277	.329	.341	.670	88	148	12	4	5	3	1

PIT (5 yrs)				452	1327	1201	179	345	45	14	2	81	51	22	96	164	.287	.345	.353	.698	98	424	33	12	13	5	3
CHC (3 yrs)				220	533	478	58	131	22	4	3	58	5	5	46	54	.274	.338	.356	.693	82	170	12	2	3	4	3
NYM (1 yr)				82	216	203	25	46	6	3	0	10	4	4	11	21	.227	.269	.286	.554	57	58	4	1	0	1	1
TEX (1 yr)				116	480	446	52	123	12	3	0	38	11	9	16	52	.276	.304	.316	.620	81	141	17	4	10	4	0

NL (9 yrs)				754	2076	1882	262	522	73	21	5	149	60	31	153	239	.277	.335	.346	.681	89	652	49	15	16	10	7
AL (1 yr)				116	480	446	52	123	12	3	0	38	11	9	16	52	.276	.304	.316	.620	81	141	17	4	10	4	0

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1970	23	PIT	NL	39	25	7	7.5	101	.469	.405	.263	.436	.336	.459	.402	.895	.738	144	.707	2.3	0.2	.800	.135	.054	.0
1971	24	PIT	NL	300	198	42	5.7	94	.352	.308	.262	.366	.328	.392	.384	.758	.712	114	.650	4.9	0.5	.719	.198	.084	1.9
1972	25	PIT	NL	334	225	47	5.7	91	.391	.334	.255	.369	.323	.421	.377	.790	.701	126	.646	9.8	1.0	.705	.158	.087	.0
1973	26	PIT	NL	337	247	30	3.3	95	.296	.263	.260	.327	.329	.329	.387	.656	.716	85	.380	-6.3	-0.6	.535	.155	.066	1.8
1974	27	PIT	NL	317	234	23	2.6	92	.259	.225	.259	.307	.330	.250	.374	.557	.704	60	.296	-13.8	-1.4	.507	.178	.025	.0
1975	28	NYM	NL	216	166	15	2.4	93	.251	.227	.261	.269	.331	.286	.376	.554	.707	57	.260	-12.3	-1.3	.424	.113	.059	.0
1976	29	TEX	AL	480	363	39	2.9	87	.309	.276	.258	.304	.323	.316	.364	.620	.687	81	.358	-11.9	-1.3	.467	.081	.040	.0
1977	30	CHC	NL	269	182	34	5.0	112	.313	.293	.282	.358	.351	.397	.429	.756	.781	95	.540	-1.5	-0.1	.674	.205	.105	1.5
1978	31	CHC	NL	254	181	24	3.6	104	.292	.258	.275	.321	.345	.319	.405	.640	.750	72	.426	-9.0	-0.9	.539	.157	.061	.0
1979	32	CHC	NL	10	8	0	0.0	108	.222	.200	.280	.200	.347	.200	.416	.400	.763	6	.000	-1.4	-0.1	.250	.000	.000
10 Seasons				2556	1829	261	3.8	95	.313	.277	.263	.329	.331	.341	.385	.670	.716	88	.459	-39.2	-4.1	.566	.149	.064	9.3
162 Game Avg.				476	341	49	3.8	95	.313	.277	.263	.329	.331	.341	.385	.670	.716	88	.459	-39.2	-4.1	.566	.149	.064	2

PIT (5 yrs)				1327	929	149	4.3	93	.330	.287	.259	.345	.328	.353	.381	.698	.709	98	.515	-3.1	-0.3	.616	.170	.066	3.8
CHC (3 yrs)				533	371	58	4.2	108	.301	.274	.279	.338	.348	.356	.417	.693	.766	82	.478	-11.9	-1.2	.599	.178	.082	3.8
NYM (1 yr)				216	166	15	2.4	93	.251	.227	.261	.269	.331	.286	.376	.554	.707	57	.259	-12.3	-1.3	.424	.113	.059	.0
TEX (1 yr)				480	363	39	2.9	87	.309	.276	.258	.304	.323	.316	.364	.620	.687	81	.358	-11.9	-1.3	.467	.081	.040	.0

NL (9 yrs)				2076	1466	222	4.1	97	.314	.277	.264	.335	.333	.346	.390	.681	.723	89	.481	-27.2	-2.8	.590	.166	.069	9.2
AL (1 yr)				480	363	39	2.9	87	.309	.276	.258	.304	.323	.316	.364	.620	.687	81	.358	-11.9	-1.3	.467	.081	.040	.0

Postseason Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1971	24	PIT	NL	NLCS	SFG	W	1	3	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	1.333	1.667	4	0	0	0	0	0
1971	24	PIT	NL	WS	BAL	W	3	12	11	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	.091	.167	.273	.439	3	0	0	0	0	0
1972	25	PIT	NL	NLCS	CIN	L	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

1974	27	PIT	NL	NLCS	LAD	L	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
3 Seasons (4 Series)							9	18	17	5	2	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	3	.118	.167	.412	.578	7	0	0	0	0	0
3 NLCS							6	6	6	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.667	.833	4	0	0	0	0	0
1 WS							3	12	11	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	.091	.167	.273	.439	3	0	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1970	23	PIT	NL	39	0.0%	12.8%	5.1%	5.1%	13%	2.50	7.4		12.3	3.75	82%
1971	24	PIT	NL	300	0.3%	12.0%	7.3%	5.7%	20%	1.64	7.6	273.0	11.4	1.13	79%
1972	25	PIT	NL	334	0.0%	14.1%	4.8%	6.3%	20%	2.94	6.6		18.3	1.30	80%
1973	26	PIT	NL	337	0.3%	10.7%	7.7%	4.5%	19%	1.38	8.4	304.0	13.2	1.62	79%
1974	27	PIT	NL	317	0.0%	12.6%	9.5%	1.9%	10%	1.33	6.9		19.7	1.74	75%
1975	28	NYM	NL	216	0.0%	9.7%	5.1%	4.2%	20%	1.91	9.7		20.3	1.47	85%
1976	29	TEX	AL	480	0.0%	10.8%	3.3%	3.1%	12%	3.25	8.6		11.7	1.28	83%
1977	30	CHC	NL	269	1.1%	9.3%	9.3%	6.3%	24%	1.00	9.6	79.7	5.8	0.95	80%
1978	31	CHC	NL	254	0.0%	11.0%	8.3%	4.7%	20%	1.33	8.2		13.5	0.84	80%
1979	32	CHC	NL	10	0.0%	10.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		10.0			0.40	90%
10 Seasons				2556	0.2%	11.4%	6.6%	4.5%	18%	1.72	8.0	465.6	12.4	1.29	80%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1970	23	PIT	NL	0	0	24%	11	2	1	67%	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	17%	4	3	1	0	0	0	2	1	0
1971	24	PIT	NL	5	0	47%	131	15	6	71%	15	5	0	1	0	0	2	1	4	13	64%	15	7	8	9	4	5	9	1	8
1972	25	PIT	NL	5	0	43%	152	12	6	67%	11	6	1	0	0	0	3	2	6	13	56%	21	13	8	4	3	1	18	3	15
1973	26	PIT	NL	5	0	38%	127	8	7	53%	7	7	1	0	0	0	4	2	1	12	58%	19	8	11	7	2	5	10	4	5
1974	27	PIT	NL	5	0	30%	120	14	2	88%	10	2	4	0	0	0	2	1	4	11	41%	23	14	8	4	1	3	7	4	3
1975	28	NYM	NL	4	0	43%	109	4	4	50%	4	4	0	0	0	0	3	2	2	4	62%	16	8	7	1	1	0	12	1	11
1976	29	TEX	AL	4	0	36%	178	11	9	55%	11	8	0	1	0	0	2	1	7	12	51%	31	17	13	5	2	3	25	8	15
1977	30	CHC	NL	7	0	26%	106	1	2	33%	1	2	0	0	0	0	6	2	4	14	51%	24	11	12	4	2	2	9	3	5
1978	31	CHC	NL	8	0	38%	98	4	3	57%	3	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	3	5	61%	15	6	9	4	2	2	9	3	6
1979	32	CHC	NL	0	0	0%	2	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10 Seasons				43	0	37%	1034	71	40	64%	64	37	6	3	1	0	23	12	33	87	54%	168	87	77	38	17	21	101	28	68
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1970	23	PIT	NL	39	46%	15			20	8	0	2	1.67	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		11	2	18%	6	0	0%	25	3	12%	3	0	0%	0	0		0
1971	24	PIT	NL	300	65%	84			18	7	0	2	1.55	1	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	4	2	50%	59	1	2%	30	6	20%	157	24	15%	13	9	69%	23	9	39%	0
1972	25	PIT	NL	334	39%	104			19	2	0	0	1.73	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	60%	49	7	14%	27	11	41%	165	19	12%	11	4	36%	18	8	44%	0
1973	26	PIT	NL	337	37%	80			34	10	0	3	1.51	1	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	4	4	100%	52	12	23%	23	6	26%	157	22	14%	14	5	36%	13	4	31%	0
1974	27	PIT	NL	317	41%	62			27	6	0	0	1.76	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	100%	66	11	17%	26	11	42%	185	17	9%	15	9	60%	13	6	46%	0
1975	28	NYM	NL	216	75%	46			18	2	0	0	0.79	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	28	4	14%	15	2	13%	102	10	10%	7	2	29%	12	4	33%	0
1976	29	TEX	AL	480	32%	123			6	3	0	2	3.06	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	10	10	100%	97	17	18%	43	20	47%	263	40	15%	17	9	53%	29	17	59%	0
1977	30	CHC	NL	269	62%	70			39	10	1	8	1.77	3	0	11	2	1	3	0	0	3	1	33%	58	7	12%	30	7	23%	186	39	21%	24	15	63%	26	11	42%	0
1978	31	CHC	NL	254	70%	59			43	10	0	3	1.80	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	67%	47	5	11%	26	7	27%	161	19	12%	12	6	50%	29	12	41%	0
1979	32	CHC	NL	10	60%	2			10	2	0	0	1.17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		3	0	0%	0	0		5	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
10 Seasons				2556	50%	645			234	60	1	20	1.64	5	0	52	4	1	3	2	0	34	26	76%	470	66	14%	226	70	31%	1406	193	14%	116	59	51%	163	71	44%	0
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1970	23	31	39	37	4	15	2	0	0	3	2	1	2	5	.405	.436	.459	.895	144	17	2	0	0	0	0
1971	24	128	339	310	56	99	14	4	1	27	17	7	24	41	.319	.374	.400	.774	117	124	3	3	2	0	0
1972	25	235	673	621	108	203	29	10	1	44	29	13	40	88	.327	.371	.411	.782	121	255	10	5	5	2	1
1973	26	345	1010	925	150	283	40	13	2	67	37	20	66	124	.306	.357	.384	.740	109	355	22	8	9	2	1
1974	27	452	1327	1201	179	345	45	14	2	81	51	22	96	164	.287	.345	.353	.698	98	424	33	12	13	5	3
1975	28	534	1543	1404	204	391	51	17	2	91	55	26	107	185	.278	.334	.343	.677	92	482	37	13	13	6	4
1976	29	650	2023	1850	256	514	63	20	2	129	66	35	123	237	.278	.327	.337	.664	89	623	54	17	23	10	4
1977	30	751	2292	2089	283	584	75	22	5	170	67	37	148	262	.280	.331	.344	.674	90	718	61	18	24	13	6
1978	31	860	2546	2318	314	643	85	24	5	187	71	40	169	290	.277	.330	.341	.671	88	791	66	19	26	14	7
1979	32	870	2556	2328	314	645	85	24	5	187	71	40	169	291	.277	.329	.341	.670	88	793	66	19	26	14	7

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1970	23	31	38	36	4	14	2	0	0	3	2	2	5	.389	.421	.444	.865	7	31
1971	24	97	311	283	58	94	13	4	1	27	17	25	36	.332	.392	.417	.809	46	97
1972	25	112	355	333	62	117	17	7	0	20	14	18	49	.351	.386	.444	.830	56	107
1973	26	110	334	305	46	81	11	3	1	25	8	26	36	.266	.329	.331	.660	33	110
1974	27	107	323	283	31	69	6	1	0	15	16	33	40	.244	.328	.272	.600	25	107
1975	28	82	217	204	27	47	6	3	0	11	4	11	21	.230	.272	.289	.561	16	82
1976	29	117	478	453	61	128	12	3	0	44	11	17	52	.283	.312	.322	.634	45	116
1977	30	101	261	234	24	65	11	2	3	37	1	23	25	.278	.341	.380	.721	30	101
1978	31	109	251	228	30	58	10	2	0	17	4	21	28	.254	.319	.316	.635	23	109
1979	32	10	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	10
10 Seasons		876	2578	2369	343	673	88	25	5	199	77	176	293	.284	.337	.349	.685	281	870
162 Game Avg.		162	477	438	63	124	16	5	1	37	14	33	54	.284	.337	.349	.685	52	870

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1972 NL (20, 2%)
0.02 Career Shares (1339th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1976 AL 17 (8th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame Monitor Batting - 2 (1859), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 3 (3145), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Dode Paskert (968) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Ward Miller (959) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ward Miller (964) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 2 (1859), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 3 (3145), Average HOFer ≈ 50