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Name	Team	Age
Gordon Balenti	Retired (1997, Age 36)	Died (2034, Age 73)
Drafted	Position	Bats/Throws
Round 1, Pick 8 (1983)	SS	R/R
League	Option Years	Majors Service Time
Mordecai Brown League	0	11 years (85 games)
Total Rating	Arm	Range
58	67	49
Contact vs R	Contact vs L	Speed
25	31	64
Power vs R	Power vs L	Bunting
87	86	45
Endurance	Velocity	Control
55	4	10
Leadership	Mentor vs RHP	Mentor vs LHP
73	100	100
Health	Injured Days	Birthday
34	0	7/3/1961
WS Rings	WS Appearances	LCS Appearances
0	0	0
Alt Pos (3B)	Alt Pos (SS)	Alt Pos (RF)
99 (99.0 %)	36 (36.3 %)	4 (4.4 %)

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Year

Type

Chances

Active

GS

Injured

Contact vs R

Power vs R

Contact vs L

Power vs L

Speed

Arm

Range

Total

1983

Minors

20.00

3 / 5

0 / 1

1 / 3

0 / 2

3 / 4

3 / 4

0 / 1

10 / 20

1984

Minors

38.00

3 / 4

2 / 6

2 / 3

2 / 4

4 / 6

1 / 6

6 / 9

20 / 38

1985

Minors

48.00

6 / 8

4 / 8

4 / 6

2 / 8

1 / 5

3 / 7

1 / 6

21 / 48

1986

Minors

7.00

1 / 2

0 / 1

0 / 0

0 / 1

1 / 1

1 / 2

0 / 0

3 / 7

1986

Majors

19.77

2 / 2

0 / 0

0 / 2

0 / 6

1 / 4

1 / 1

4 / 4

8 / 19

1987

Majors

45.63

1 / 5

6 / 11

3 / 6

0 / 3

1 / 7

3 / 8

2 / 5

16 / 45

1988

Majors

58.31

1 / 6

6 / 11

1 / 7

0 / 7

2 / 9

4 / 9

3 / 9

17 / 58

1989

Majors

57.41

1 / 5

1 / 6

2 / 11

0 / 8

0 / 9

2 / 8

2 / 10

8 / 57

1990

Majors

58.19

1 / 12

1 / 7

0 / 6

0 / 8

2 / 10

1 / 10

0 / 5

5 / 58

1991

Majors

62.18

2 / 10

0 / 9

1 / 8

0 / 9

0 / 7

0 / 7

0 / 12

3 / 62

1992

Majors

59.89

1 / 8

0 / 8

0 / 7

0 / 9

0 / 15

0 / 5

0 / 7

1 / 59

1993

Majors

55.02

0 / 14

0 / 5

1 / 8

0 / 7

0 / 7

0 / 10

0 / 4

1 / 55

1994

Majors

47.71

1 / 4

0 / 5

0 / 9

0 / 14

0 / 9

0 / 3

0 / 3

1 / 47

1995

Majors

38.71

87

26

0

0 / 6

0 / 9

1 / 1

0 / 5

1 / 3

0 / 11

0 / 3

2 / 38

1996

Majors

37.21

162

36

0

0 / 5

0 / 3

0 / 7

0 / 2

0 / 2

0 / 8

0 / 10

0 / 37

1997

Majors

25.90

162

23

0

0 / 3

1 / 8

1 / 4

0 / 2

0 / 2

0 / 4

0 / 2

2 / 25

Total

411

85

0

23 / 99

21 / 98

17 / 88

4 / 95

16 / 100

19 / 103

18 / 90

118 / 673

Career Transactions

Date	Transaction
1997-11-01	Gordon Balenti has retired from the St. Louis Muckrakers
1994-07-11	Gordon Balenti of the St. Louis Muckrakers is injured and is expected to be out 30 days.
1992-10-01	Gordon Balenti of the St. Louis Muckrakers is injured and is expected to be out 22 days.
1986-06-02	The St. Louis Muckrakers have promoted Gordon Balenti to the major league team.
1984-04-11	The St. Louis Muckrakers have acquired Gordon Balenti from the waiver wire.
1984-04-01	The Milwaukee Night Owls have waived Gordon Balenti.
1983-05-12	A trade has been completed between the Chicago Centennials and the Milwaukee Night Owls. The Milwaukee Night Owls receive Bob Shores, Gordon Balenti, Eric Tillotson from the Chicago Centennials in exchange for Joe Gray, Rowland Curry, Steamboat Haney.