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Jim Lefebvre

James Kenneth Lefebvre

Positions: Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: January 7, 1942 in Inglewood, CA
High School: Morningside (Inglewood, CA)
Signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1962. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 12, 1965
Team: Dodgers 1965-1972

Final Game: September 19, 1972
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 11, 2012, 8:11PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1103. Marlon Byrd… #1104. Vince Coleman… #1105. Ray Knight… #1106. JIM LEFEBVRE… #1107. Alexei Ramirez… #1108. Doc Cramer… #1109. Deron Johnson… 

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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
1965 23 LAD NL 157 631 544 57 136 21 4 12 69 3 5 71 92 .250 .337 .369 .706 105 201 8 2 10 4 7 *4 MVP-21,RoY-1
1966 24 LAD NL 152 610 544 69 149 23 3 24 74 1 1 48 72 .274 .333 .460 .793 126 250 10 3 10 5 6 *45 AS,MVP-18
1967 25 LAD NL 136 553 494 51 129 18 5 8 50 1 5 44 64 .261 .322 .366 .689 105 181 10 3 7 5 11 54/3
1968 26 LAD NL 84 317 286 23 69 12 1 5 31 0 0 26 55 .241 .304 .343 .646 101 98 3 1 1 3 4 45/3
1969 27 LAD NL 95 330 275 29 65 15 2 4 44 2 1 48 37 .236 .349 .349 .698 103 96 8 1 3 3 10 54/3
1970 28 LAD NL 109 351 314 33 79 15 1 4 44 1 1 29 42 .252 .314 .344 .658 81 108 7 1 4 3 2 45/3
1971 29 LAD NL 119 437 388 40 95 14 2 12 68 0 2 39 55 .245 .314 .384 .698 103 149 15 2 4 4 6 4/5
1972 30 LAD NL 70 188 169 11 34 8 0 5 24 0 0 17 30 .201 .271 .337 .609 74 57 3 0 0 2 6 45
8 Seasons 922 3417 3014 313 756 126 18 74 404 8 15 322 447 .251 .323 .378 .701 104 1140 64 13 39 29 52
162 Game Avg. 162 600 530 55 133 22 3 13 71 1 3 57 79 .251 .323 .378 .701 104 200 11 2 7 5 9

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1965 23 LAD NL 631 9 -3 -1 2 9 4 22 42 4.3 33 3.4 0.9 $7,500 *4 MVP-21,RoY-1
1966 24 LAD NL 610 18 -1 0 1 2 4 21 46 4.8 43 4.5 0.3 $15,000 *45 AS,MVP-18
1967 25 LAD NL 553 -1 -2 1 0 0 3 19 20 2.0 20 2.2 -0.2 $30,000 54/3
1968 26 LAD NL 317 1 -1 -1 0 -4 1 11 6 0.6 11 1.3 -0.7 $ 45/3
1969 27 LAD NL 330 2 1 -2 0 9 2 11 23 2.4 14 1.5 0.9 $ 54/3
1970 28 LAD NL 351 -9 -1 -1 0 2 2 10 3 0.3 1 0.1 0.2 $ 45/3
1971 29 LAD NL 437 3 -1 -1 -2 -3 3 13 12 1.2 15 1.6 -0.4 $ 4/5
1972 30 LAD NL 188 -7 0 -1 0 1 1 6 0 -0.2 -1 -0.1 -0.1 $ 45
8 Seasons 3417 16 -8 -6 1 17 20 113 152 15.4 136 14.5 0.9 $52,500

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
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
1965 23 LAD NL WS MIN W 3 10 10 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 .800 4 0 0 0 0 0
1966 24 LAD NL WS BAL L 4 15 12 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 4 .167 .333 .417 .750 5 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons (2 Series) 7 25 22 3 6 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 4 .273 .360 .409 .769 9 0 0 0 0 0
2 WS 7 25 22 3 6 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 4 .273 .360 .409 .769 9 0 0 0 0 0

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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
1965 LAD NL 23 2B 156 802 349 429 24 91 .970 9 4.99 .974 5.28 MVP-21,RoY-1
1966 LAD NL 24 2B 119 590 246 332 12 59 .980 6 4.86 .978 5.33 AS,MVP-18
1966 LAD NL 24 3B 40 83 22 57 4 4 .952 -3 1.98 .954 3.04 AS,MVP-18
1967 LAD NL 25 3B 92 266 49 205 12 12 .955 -4 2.76 .950 2.96
1967 LAD NL 25 2B 34 188 70 112 6 23 .968 4 5.35 .976 5.26
1967 LAD NL 25 1B 5 58 54 4 0 4 1.000 -0 11.60 .991 9.96
1968 LAD NL 26 2B 62 269 126 137 6 29 .978 -2 4.24 .977 5.22
1968 LAD NL 26 3B 16 39 15 22 2 4 .949 -3 2.31 .954 2.94
1968 LAD NL 26 OF 5 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 0 1.80 .976 2.02
1968 LAD NL 26 1B 3 31 29 2 0 0 1.000 0 10.33 .992 10.13
1968 LAD NL 26 LF 5 5 3 38.0 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 0 3 2.13 1.80 .963 1.63 1.64
1969 LAD NL 27 3B 44 134 34 98 2 7 .985 8 3.00 .946 2.90
1969 LAD NL 27 2B 37 149 62 83 4 16 .973 1 3.92 .974 5.15
1969 LAD NL 27 1B 6 62 58 4 0 3 1.000 0 10.33 .992 9.77
1970 LAD NL 28 2B 70 323 142 177 4 34 .988 -0 4.56 .979 5.30
1970 LAD NL 28 3B 21 56 20 34 2 4 .964 2 2.57 .945 2.90
1970 LAD NL 28 1B 1 7 6 1 0 3 1.000 0 7.00 .991 9.60
1971 LAD NL 29 2B 102 510 244 260 6 69 .988 -3 4.94 .978 5.46
1971 LAD NL 29 3B 7 20 3 14 3 2 .850 0 2.43 .949 2.80
1972 LAD NL 30 2B 33 150 66 82 2 21 .987 1 4.48 .978 5.38
1972 LAD NL 30 3B 11 23 4 17 2 3 .913 0 1.91 .945 2.88
8 Seasons 2B 613 2981 1305 1612 64 342 .979 16 4.76 .977 5.31
7 Seasons 3B 231 621 147 447 27 36 .957 -0 2.57 .949 2.95
4 Seasons 1B 15 158 147 11 0 10 1.000 0 10.53 .992 9.89
1 Season OF 5 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 0 1.80 .976 2.02
1 Season LF 5 5 3 38.0 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 0 3 2.13 1.80 .963 1.63 1.64
8 Seasons TOT 864 3769 1608 2070 91 388 .976 17 4.26 .973 4.74
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1966 (2B)

Awards (yr lg award)
1965 NL Rookie of the Year

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1965 NL (21, 2%)
1966 NL (18, 3%)
0.05 Career Shares (1113th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1966 NL  4.8 (10th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1969 NL  0.9 (9th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1965 NL  10 (9th)
1966 NL  10 (9th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1965 NL  156 (4th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1965 NL  349 (2nd)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1965 NL  429 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1965 NL  24 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1965 NL  9 (2nd)
1966 NL  6 (4th)
1967 NL  4 (4th)
Career  16 (80th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1966 NL  5.20 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1965 NL  4.99 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1971 NL  .988 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1969 NL  8 (2nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1967 NL  .955 (5th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 12 (1070), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 5 (2192), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
196523Los Angeles Dodgers$7,5002/12/66 TSN
196624Los Angeles Dodgers$15,0002/12/66 TSN
196725Los Angeles Dodgers$30,0003/4/67 TSN
Career to date (may be incomplete)$52,500
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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