Jim Palmer played 19 seasons (1965–1984) for BAL. Career regular-season line: a 268–152 record, 2,212 strikeouts and a 2.86 ERA. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1975. Led the league in a statistical category 1 time. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1990. Honors: 6× All-Star Selections and 4× Gold Gloves.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 98.7th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
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Rate Jim Palmer — All-Time
18 seasons · peak 16.8 in 1975
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
48.4 career wins over 18 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1975 · +6.4 wins
Latest season · 1983 · +0.3 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Jim Palmer led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 11 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1975, 18 rated seasons.
Season boards
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top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
Where Jim Palmer ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
Ranked against the single greatest era-translated seasons in every sport by z — robust standard deviations above Jim Palmer's own era's positional peers, the one dominance measure comparable across the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.
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Gave the Baltimore Orioles an entire corpus-attributed career — 20 seasons (1965–1984), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.