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Jim Spencer played 15 major-league seasons (1968-1982) as a 1B (1,221), OF (24). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 15 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 21 | CAL | 19 | 68 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | .191 | .439 | 38 |
| 1969 | 22 | CAL | 113 | 386 | 39 | 98 | 10 | 31 | 1 | 26 | 53 | .254 | .688 | 98 |
| 1970 | 23 | CAL | 146 | 511 | 61 | 140 | 12 | 68 | 0 | 28 | 61 | .274 | .708 | 101 |
| 1971 | 24 | CAL | 148 | 510 | 50 | 121 | 18 | 59 | 0 | 48 | 63 | .237 | .696 | 103 |
| 1972 | 25 | CAL | 82 | 212 | 13 | 47 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 12 | 25 | .222 | .522 | 61 |
| 1973 | 26 | CAL|TEX | 131 | 439 | 45 | 115 | 6 | 54 | 0 | 43 | 50 | .262 | .691 | 95 |
| 1974 | 27 | TEX | 118 | 352 | 36 | 98 | 7 | 44 | 1 | 22 | 27 | .278 | .715 | 106 |
| 1975 | 28 | TEX | 132 | 403 | 50 | 107 | 11 | 47 | 0 | 35 | 43 | .266 | .724 | 104 |
| 1976 | 29 | CHA | 150 | 518 | 53 | 131 | 14 | 70 | 6 | 49 | 52 | .253 | .682 | 100 |
| 1977 | 30 | CHA | 128 | 470 | 56 | 116 | 18 | 69 | 1 | 36 | 50 | .247 | .700 | 90 |
| 1978 | 31 | NYA | 71 | 150 | 12 | 34 | 7 | 24 | 0 | 15 | 32 | .227 | .735 | 105 |
| 1979 | 32 | NYA | 106 | 295 | 60 | 85 | 23 | 53 | 0 | 38 | 25 | .288 | .960 | 155 |
| 1980 | 33 | NYA | 97 | 259 | 38 | 61 | 13 | 43 | 1 | 30 | 44 | .236 | .734 | 100 |
| 1981 | 34 | NYA|OAK | 79 | 234 | 20 | 44 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 19 | 27 | .188 | .521 | 50 |
| 1982 | 35 | OAK | 33 | 101 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 20 | .168 | .468 | 27 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 1B | 19 | 19 | 152 | 18 | 1 | 15 |
| 1969 | 1B | 107 | 101 | 926 | 66 | 9 | 81 |
| 1970 | 1B | 142 | 135 | 1212 | 85 | 7 | 131 |
| 1971 | 1B | 145 | 135 | 1296 | 93 | 5 | 117 |
| 1972 | 1B | 35 | 30 | 267 | 22 | 3 | 25 |
| 1972 | OF | 24 | 21 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1973 | 1B | 125 | 112 | 994 | 74 | 1 | 110 |
| 1974 | 1B | 60 | 40 | 389 | 27 | 1 | 36 |
| 1975 | 1B | 99 | 90 | 844 | 70 | 5 | 92 |
| 1976 | 1B | 143 | 134 | 1206 | 112 | 2 | 116 |
| 1977 | 1B | 125 | 123 | 977 | 90 | 10 | 76 |
| 1978 | 1B | 15 | 8 | 90 | 7 | 0 | 4 |
| 1979 | 1B | 26 | 25 | 232 | 17 | 2 | 35 |
| 1980 | 1B | 75 | 62 | 567 | 41 | 6 | 51 |
| 1981 | 1B | 73 | 62 | 516 | 53 | 1 | 47 |
| 1982 | 1B | 32 | 26 | 230 | 22 | 2 | 20 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Jim Spencer won: Gold Glove 1970 (AL), Gold Glove 1977 (AL).
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.