Jim Gentile

James Edward Gentile (Diamond Jim)

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: June 3, 1934 in San Francisco, CA
High School: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (San Francisco, CA)
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1952. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 10, 1957
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Athletics/Astros/Indians/Dodgers 1957-1966

Final Game: September 30, 1966
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1957	BRO	NL	23	1B	2	2	0	10.0	14	14	0	0	3	1.000	0	24	12.60	7.00	.990	9.63	9.75
1958	LAD	NL	24	1B	8	8	3	56.1	53	50	2	1	9	.981	-1	-26	8.31	6.50	.990	9.54	9.49
1960	BAL	AL	26	1B	124	95	79	897.0	944	885	52	7	98	.993	0	1	9.40	7.56	.991	9.58	9.56	AS,MVP-15,RoY-2
1961	BAL	AL	27	1B	144	137	123	1225.1	1323	1209	100	14	129	.989	8	8	9.61	9.09	.990	9.45	9.34	AS,MVP-3
1962	BAL	AL	28	1B	150	149	140	1315.0	1351	1214	121	16	121	.988	2	2	9.14	8.90	.990	9.44	9.41	AS
1963	BAL	AL	29	1B	143	138	129	1232.1	1301	1185	110	6	122	.995	7	7	9.46	9.06	.990	9.48	9.49
1964	KCA	AL	30	1B	128	128	120	1100.0	1115	1018	84	13	92	.988	-6	-7	9.02	8.61	.991	9.43	9.41
1965	TOT	MLB	31	1B	103	91	79	798.0	852	783	60	9	65	.989	-6	-9	9.51	8.18	.990	9.87	9.86
1965	KCA	AL	31	1B	35	29	28	256.2	261	239	17	5	24	.981	-3	-12	8.98	7.31	.991	9.56	9.53
1965	HOU	NL	31	1B	68	62	51	541.1	591	544	43	4	41	.993	-3	-7	9.76	8.63	.990	10.02	10.03
1966	TOT	MLB	32	1B	52	44	39	413.2	409	367	35	7	32	.983	-3	-10	8.75	7.73	.989	9.85	9.84
1966	HOU	NL	32	1B	43	38	34	352.0	355	321	30	4	28	.989	-2	-7	8.97	8.16	.989	9.90	9.89
1966	CLE	AL	32	1B	9	6	5	61.2	54	46	5	3	4	.944	-1	-25	7.44	5.67	.991	9.59	9.58
	9 Seasons			1B	854	792	712	7047.2	7362	6725	564	73	671	.990	0	0	9.31	8.54	.990	9.54	9.52
	9 Seasons			TOT	854	792	712	7047.2	7362	6725	564	73	671	.990	0	0	9.31	8.54	.990	9.54	9.52

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1957	BRO	NL	23	1B	0	24	0	0	0	0
1958	LAD	NL	24	1B	-1	-26	-1	-1	-1	0
1960	BAL	AL	26	1B	0	1	0	-0	0	0
1961	BAL	AL	27	1B	8	8	7	-1	8	1
1962	BAL	AL	28	1B	2	2	2	2	0	0
1963	BAL	AL	29	1B	7	7	7	2	5	0
1964	KCA	AL	30	1B	-6	-7	-6	-7	0	0
1965	KCA	AL	31	1B	-3	-12	-3	0	-3	0
1965	HOU	NL	31	1B	-3	-7	-3	-0	-3	0
1966	HOU	NL	32	1B	-2	-7	-2	-1	-1	0
1966	CLE	AL	32	1B	-1	-25	-1	-1	-0	0
	9 Seasons			1B	1	0	-0	-7	6	1
	9 Seasons			TOT	0	0	-1	-7	6	1

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	1B	PH	PR
1957	BRO	NL	23	4	2	4	2	2	2	0
1958	LAD	NL	24	12	8	12	8	8	4	0
1960	BAL	AL	26	138	95	138	124	124	39	0
1961	BAL	AL	27	148	137	148	144	144	11	0
1962	BAL	AL	28	152	149	152	150	150	2	0
1963	BAL	AL	29	145	138	145	143	143	5	0
1964	KCA	AL	30	136	128	136	128	128	8	0
1965	HOU	NL	31	81	62	81	68	68	14	0
1965	KCA	AL	31	38	29	38	35	35	4	0
1966	HOU	NL	32	49	38	49	43	43	10	0
1966	CLE	AL	32	33	6	33	9	9	26	1
	9 Seasons			936	792	936	854	854	125	1

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1957	BRO	NL	23	42	60%	76%	43%	2	100%	0	13	0	13	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
1958	LAD	NL	24	239	62%	72%	25%	7	86%	0	46	1	45	0	3	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	9	1	0	0	9	1	0	0	0	1	100%
1960	BAL	AL	26	3782	63%	79%	27%	198	92%	2	881	50	817	13	84	51	36	13	1	0	7	0	7	0	6	98	4	1	0	93	6	5	1	4	18	89%
1961	BAL	AL	27	5118	64%	77%	27%	299	93%	2	1212	106	1085	23	82	99	73	15	2	2	14	4	6	4	9	129	6	2	1	118	9	10	3	7	14	86%
1962	BAL	AL	28	5574	59%	80%	26%	311	93%	1	1215	61	1136	20	114	120	94	19	1	2	16	4	12	0	8	121	3	2	1	113	6	8	3	5	20	80%
1963	BAL	AL	29	5142	63%	78%	26%	282	96%	0	1185	63	1114	9	107	108	86	16	0	0	6	1	4	1	3	121	2	1	2	108	5	13	5	8	12	100%
1964	KCA	AL	30	4898	62%	78%	25%	239	92%	1	1018	46	968	6	94	85	65	14	1	4	13	3	10	0	5	93	3	1	0	88	4	5	0	5	14	86%
1965	HOU	NL	31	2319	59%	82%	28%	113	96%	0	545	31	512	4	38	45	32	9	0	1	4	2	1	1	2	41	2	0	1	36	3	5	2	3	12	100%
1965	KCA	AL	31	1118	63%	79%	23%	50	92%	0	240	3	236	1	30	17	11	4	0	1	5	1	4	0	2	27	1	0	1	24	2	3	0	3	5	100%
1966	HOU	NL	32	1464	66%	82%	27%	64	92%	1	320	16	299	5	20	25	14	8	1	2	4	0	4	0	4	28	1	1	0	24	2	4	0	4	3	100%
1966	CLE	AL	32	255	60%	73%	20%	15	87%	0	47	3	42	2	5	5	4	1	0	0	3	1	2	0	1	4	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	2	100%
	9 Seasons			29951	62%	79%	26%	1580	93%	7	6722	380	6267	83	578	558	417	100	6	12	73	16	50	7	41	674	23	8	6	619	38	54	14	40	101	90%
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	28%		94%																											86%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 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. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 1960-1 * 1960-2 1961-1 * 1961-2 1962-1 (1B) 1962-2 (1B)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1960 AL (15, 6%) 1961 AL (3, 56%) 0.62 Career Shares (377th)	Putouts† s c a p y 1960 AL 885 (4th) 1961 AL 1,209 (3rd) 1962 AL 1,214 (5th) 1963 AL 1,185 (3rd)	Def. Games as 1B s c a p y 1960 AL 124 (3rd) 1961 AL 144 (3rd) 1962 AL 150 (4th) 1963 AL 143 (2nd)
Putouts as 1B s c a p y 1960 AL 885 (4th) 1961 AL 1,209 (3rd) 1962 AL 1,214 (5th) 1963 AL 1,185 (3rd)	Assists as 1B s c a p y 1961 AL 100 (4th) 1962 AL 121 (4th) 1963 AL 110 (2nd) 1964 AL 84 (5th)	Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y 1961 AL 14 (2nd) 1962 AL 16 (2nd) 1964 AL 13 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 1961 AL 8 (2nd) 1963 AL 7 (4th)
Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y 1960 AL 9.40 (4th) 1961 AL 9.61 (4th) 1963 AL 9.46 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y 1961 AL 9.09 (3rd) 1963 AL 9.06 (4th) 1964 AL 8.61 (5th)	Fielding % as 1B s c a p y 1960 AL .993 (3rd) 1963 AL .995 (2nd)

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