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Joe Gibbon
Joseph Charles Gibbon

Bats: Right , Throws: Left
Height: 6' 4" , Weight: 210 lb.

Born: April 10, 1935 in Hickory, MS
School: University of Mississippi
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1957. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 17, 1960
Final Game: July 11, 1972
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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
1960	25	PIT	NL	27	25	19	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.211	.286	.211	.496	38	4	0	0	4	0	0	1
1961	26	PIT	NL	31	71	59	1	8	1	1	0	6	0	0	1	22	.136	.148	.186	.334	-12	11	1	0	10	1	0	1
1962	27	PIT	NL	19	18	17	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.176	.176	.176	.353	-5	3	0	0	1	0	0	1
1963	28	PIT	NL	40	47	43	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	15	.093	.114	.093	.207	-40	4	0	0	3	0	0	1
1964	29	PIT	NL	29	54	47	3	12	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	14	.255	.286	.277	.562	60	13	0	0	5	0	0	1
1965	30	PIT	NL	31	30	26	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	13	.115	.179	.115	.294	-15	3	1	0	2	0	0	1
1966	31	SFG	NL	37	16	15	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.200	.250	.200	.450	25	3	0	0	0	0	0	1
1967	32	SFG	NL	28	26	24	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	.042	.080	.083	.163	-53	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
1968	33	SFG	NL	29	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1969	34	TOT	NL	51	10	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	2	0	0	1
1969	34	SFG	NL	16	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1969	34	PIT	NL	35	7	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	2	0	0	1
1970	35	PIT	NL	41	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1971	36	CIN	NL	50	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
1972	37	TOT	NL	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1972	37	CIN	NL	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
1972	37	HOU	NL	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
13 Seasons				424	303	263	9	38	3	1	0	8	0	0	10	99	.144	.175	.163	.339	-5	43	2	0	29	1	0
162 Game Avg.				162	116	100	3	15	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	38	.144	.175	.163	.339	-5	16	1	0	11	0	0
				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
PIT (8 yrs)				253	255	219	7	34	2	1	0	7	0	0	8	80	.155	.184	.174	.358	-0	38	2	0	27	1	0
SFG (4 yrs)				110	46	43	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	19	.093	.133	.116	.250	-29	5	0	0	1	0	0
CIN (2 yrs)				52	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0
HOU (1 yr)				9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	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
1960	25	PIT	NL	25	19	2	2.8	100	.286	.211	.264	.286	.330	.211	.406	.496	.736	38	.312	-1.6	-0.2	.400	.105	.000
1961	26	PIT	NL	71	63	2	0.8	106	.211	.136	.271	.148	.338	.186	.422	.334	.760	-12	.042	-9.8	-1.0	.231	.068	.051
1962	27	PIT	NL	18	15	1	1.8	104	.250	.176	.271	.176	.338	.176	.412	.353	.750	-5	.152	-2.6	-0.3	.214	.000	.000
1963	28	PIT	NL	47	42	1	0.6	90	.143	.093	.255	.114	.317	.093	.382	.207	.699	-40	.035	-7.8	-0.8	.128	.023	.000
1964	29	PIT	NL	54	40	4	2.7	94	.364	.255	.263	.286	.321	.277	.391	.562	.712	60	.316	-2.6	-0.3	.429	.064	.021
1965	30	PIT	NL	30	26	1	1.0	94	.231	.115	.259	.179	.323	.115	.392	.294	.715	-15	.074	-4.0	-0.4	.208	.077	.000
1966	31	SFG	NL	16	12	1	2.2	99	.333	.200	.269	.250	.328	.200	.406	.450	.734	25	.240	-1.6	-0.2	.333	.067	.000
1967	32	SFG	NL	26	24	0	0.0	90	.083	.042	.258	.080	.320	.083	.379	.163	.699	-53	.000	-4.8	-0.5	.130	.083	.042
1968	33	SFG	NL	1	1	0	0.0	82	.000	.000	.253	.000	.312	.000	.357	.000	.669	-100	.000	-0.2	-0.0	.000	.000	.000
1969	34	TOT	NL	10	10	0	0.0	93	.000	.000	.258	.000	.328	.000	.382	.000	.709	-100	.000	-2.1	-0.2	.000	.000	.000
1969	34	SFG	NL	3	3	0	0.0	94	.000	.000	.258	.000	.328	.000	.383	.000	.711	-100	.000	-0.8	-0.1	.000	.000	.000
1969	34	PIT	NL	7	7	0	0.0	93		.000	.257	.000	.327	.000	.381	.000	.708	-100	.000	-1.3	-0.1	.000	.000	.000
1970	35	PIT	NL	3	3	0	0.0	101	.000	.000	.263	.000	.336	.000	.402	.000	.738	-100	.000	-0.8	-0.1	.000	.000	.000
1971	36	CIN	NL	2	2	0	0.0	88	.000	.000	.254	.000	.319	.000	.372	.000	.691	-100	.000	-0.2	-0.0	.000	.000	.000
13 Seasons				303	257	12	1.2	97	.230	.144	.264	.175	.327	.163	.398	.339	.725	-5	.096	-38.2	-4.0	.233	.057	.019
162 Game Avg.				116	98	5	1.2	97	.230	.144	.264	.175	.327	.163	.398	.339	.725	-5	.096	-38.2	-4.0	.233	.057	.019

PIT (8 yrs)				255	215	11	1.4	98	.243	.155	.264	.184	.328	.174	.400	.358	.728	-0	.111	-30.6	-3.2	.246	.055	.018
SFG (4 yrs)				46	40	1	0.7	94	.167	.093	.262	.133	.324	.116	.388	.250	.711	-29	.036	-7.4	-0.8	.179	.070	.023
CIN (2 yrs)				2	2	0	0.0	88	.000	.000	.254	.000	.319	.000	.372	.000	.691	-100	.000	-0.2	-0.0	.000	.000	.000

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	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1960	25	PIT	NL	WS	NYY	W	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1970	35	PIT	NL	NLCS	CIN	L	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2 Seasons (2 Series)							4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 NLCS							2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 WS							2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1960	25	PIT	NL	25	0.0%	20.0%	8.0%	0.0%	0%	2.50	3.8		1.75	56%
1961	26	PIT	NL	71	0.0%	31.0%	1.4%	2.8%	25%	22.00	2.7	9.8	2.90	54%
1962	27	PIT	NL	18	0.0%	27.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		3.4		4.00	67%
1963	28	PIT	NL	47	0.0%	31.9%	2.1%	0.0%	0%	15.00	2.9		2.71	60%
1964	29	PIT	NL	54	0.0%	25.9%	3.7%	1.9%	8%	7.00	3.4	47.0	2.00	61%
1965	30	PIT	NL	30	0.0%	43.3%	6.7%	0.0%	0%	6.50	2.0		3.33	43%
1966	31	SFG	NL	16	0.0%	37.5%	6.3%	0.0%	0%	6.00	2.5	15.0		56%
1967	32	SFG	NL	26	0.0%	46.2%	3.9%	3.9%	100%	12.00	2.0		2.50	46%
1968	33	SFG	NL	1	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%						100%
1969	34	TOT	NL	10	0.0%	60.0%	0.0%	0.0%			1.3			20%
1969	34	SFG	NL	3	0.0%	33.3%	0.0%	0.0%			3.0			67%
1969	34	PIT	NL	7	0.0%	71.4%	0.0%	0.0%			1.0			0%
1970	35	PIT	NL	3	0.0%	33.3%	0.0%	0.0%			3.0		1.00	67%
1971	36	CIN	NL	2	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%						50%
13 Seasons				303	0.0%	32.7%	3.3%	1.3%	11%	9.90	2.7	32.9	2.89	54%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	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
1960	25	PIT	NL	1	0	33%	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1961	26	PIT	NL	1	0	11%	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962	27	PIT	NL	0	0	0%	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1963	28	PIT	NL	1	0	20%	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
1964	29	PIT	NL	2	0	21%	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	25%	2	2	0	1	0	1	1	1	0
1965	30	PIT	NL	0	0	0%	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100%	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1966	31	SFG	NL	1	0	25%	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967	32	SFG	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
1968	33	SFG	NL	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1969	34	TOT	NL	0	0		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1969	34	SFG	NL	0	0		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1969	34	PIT	NL	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1970	35	PIT	NL	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1971	36	CIN	NL	0	0		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
13 Seasons				6	0	19%	92	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	18%	13	12	1	1	0	1	3	1	1
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
1960	25	PIT	NL	22	32%	4			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	100%	5	0	0%	5	2	40%	8	0	0%	0	0		1	0	0%	3
1961	26	PIT	NL	70	27%	8			0	0	0	0		0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	11	10	91%	25	1	4%	24	8	33%	70	7	10%	3	3	100%	4	1	25%	1
1962	27	PIT	NL	18	11%	3			0	0	0	0		0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	50%	4	0	0%	4	0	0%	17	0	0%	1	0	0%	0	0		0
1963	28	PIT	NL	46	24%	4			0	0	0	0		0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	100%	8	0	0%	7	2	29%	34	0	0%	0	0		1	0	0%	1
1964	29	PIT	NL	50	20%	12			0	0	0	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	5	83%	9	0	0%	11	3	27%	26	1	4%	1	1	100%	3	1	33%	4
1965	30	PIT	NL	30	43%	3			0	0	0	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	40%	8	1	13%	8	1	13%	23	0	0%	0	0		1	0	0%	0
1966	31	SFG	NL	16	38%	3			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	2	0	0%	2	1	50%	9	1	11%	1	0	0%	1	0	0%	0
1967	32	SFG	NL	26	19%	1			0	0	0	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	50%	5	0	0%	8	0	0%	19	0	0%	4	0	0%	1	0	0%	0
1968	33	SFG	NL	1	0%	0			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0
1969	34	TOT	NL	10	10%	0			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	100%	3	0	0%	3	1	33%	5	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
1969	34	SFG	NL	3	33%	0			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	0	0%	1	0	0%	2	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
1969	34	PIT	NL	7	0%	0			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	100%	2	0	0%	2	1	50%	3	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
1970	35	PIT	NL	3	33%	0			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0
1971	36	CIN	NL	2	0%	0			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	2	0	0%	2	0	0%	3	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
13 Seasons				294	26%	38			0	0	0	0		0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	37	29	78%	71	2	3%	74	18	24%	214	9	4%	10	4	40%	12	2	17%	9
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	SH	SF
1960	25	27	25	19	2	4	0	0	0	2	5	.211	.286	.211	.496	38	4	0	4	0
1961	26	58	96	78	3	12	1	1	6	3	27	.154	.183	.192	.375	0	15	1	14	1
1962	27	77	114	95	3	15	1	1	6	3	32	.158	.182	.189	.371	-1	18	1	15	1
1963	28	117	161	138	4	19	1	1	6	4	47	.138	.161	.159	.320	-12	22	1	18	1
1964	29	146	215	185	7	31	2	1	7	6	61	.168	.193	.189	.382	6	35	1	23	1
1965	30	177	245	211	7	34	2	1	7	8	74	.161	.191	.180	.371	3	38	2	25	1
1966	31	214	261	226	8	37	2	1	8	9	80	.164	.195	.181	.376	5	41	2	25	1
1967	32	242	287	250	8	38	3	1	8	10	92	.152	.184	.172	.356	-1	43	2	26	1
1968	33	271	288	251	8	38	3	1	8	10	92	.151	.183	.171	.355	-1	43	2	26	1
1969	34	322	298	259	8	38	3	1	8	10	98	.147	.178	.166	.344	-4	43	2	28	1
1970	35	363	301	262	8	38	3	1	8	10	99	.145	.176	.164	.340	-5	43	2	28	1
1971	36	413	303	263	9	38	3	1	8	10	99	.144	.175	.163	.339	-5	43	2	29	1
1972	37	424	303	263	9	38	3	1	8	10	99	.144	.175	.163	.339	-5	43	2	29	1

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1960	25	28	25	22	3	6	0	0	0	3	5	.273	.360	.273	.633	2	27
1961	26	32	64	62	1	9	1	1	7	1	23	.145	.156	.194	.350	2	31
1962	27	19	17	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	1	19
1963	28	40	47	45	2	6	0	0	0	2	15	.133	.170	.133	.304	1	40
1964	29	29	51	49	4	14	1	0	1	2	14	.286	.314	.306	.620	5	29
1965	30	31	30	27	0	4	0	0	0	3	13	.148	.233	.148	.381	1	31
1966	31	37	17	16	1	4	0	0	1	1	6	.250	.294	.250	.544	1	37
1967	32	28	25	24	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	.000	.040	.000	.040	0	28
1968	33	29	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	29
1969	34	51	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	51
1970	35	41	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	41
1971	36	50	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	50
12 Seasons		415	289	275	12	43	2	1	9	13	100	.156	.194	.171	.365	13	413
162 Game Avg.		162	113	107	5	17	1	0	4	5	39	.156	.194	.171	.365	5	413

* 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

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1961 NL 10 (7th)

Oldest s c a p y
1972 NL born 1935-04-10 (7th)

Other Resources & Links

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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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