Jim Pankovits
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Jim Pankovits
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| Infielder | |||
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Born: August 6, 1955 Pennington Gap, Virginia |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 27, 1984, for the Houston Astros | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 19, 1990, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .250 | ||
| Home runs | 9 | ||
| Runs batted in | 55 | ||
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James Franklin Pankovits (born August 6, 1955 in Pennington Gap, Virginia) is an American professional baseball coach, a former Major League Baseball infielder, and former minor league manager. In MLB, he appeared in 318 games played, 316 of them with the Houston Astros. As of 2014, he is a roving minor league infield instructor for the Seattle Mariners.
The 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m), 170 lb (77 kg) Pankovits was selected by the Astros in the fourth round of the 1976 Major League Baseball Draft from the University of South Carolina. During his six-year Major League career (1984–88; 1990), Pankovits was used primarily as a pinch hitter and occasional second baseman. In one instance, he even caught an inning of a 1986 game [1]. In his career, he hit .250 with nine home runs and 55 RBI. His best season came in 1986 as a member of the National League West Division champion Astros, when he hit .283 in 70 games as the primary back up to Bill Doran.
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