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Kaat was an [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] for three seasons and a [[Gold Glove]] winner for 16 seasons. He was the American League (AL) leader in [[shutouts in baseball|shutouts]] (5) in 1962, and the AL leader in [[win (baseball)|wins]] (25) and [[complete game]]s (19) in 1966. In addition to his 283 career wins, he has three 20-win seasons. Kaat won 190 games with the Senators/Twins (winning all but one with the latter), second most in club history and most since the team moved to Minnesota; he also has the most Gold Glove Awards of any [[Minnesota Twins award winners and league leaders|Twin]] with 12.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/leaders_pitch.shtml|title = Minnesota Twins Top 10 Career Pitching Leaders|website=Baseball-reference.com}}</ref>
After a brief stint as a pitching coach for the [[Cincinnati Reds]], Kaat became a sportscaster and for the next 22 years called games for the [[New York Yankees]] and the Minnesota Twins. Following a brief retirement in 2006, Jim Kaat was back in the broadcast booth calling Pool D for the [[2009 World Baseball Classic]] in Puerto Rico, called games for [[NESN]] in 2009, and worked for the [[MLB Network]] from its inception in 2009 until August 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/network/personalities|title=MLB Network Personalities|website=Mlb.com|access-date=15 January 2022}}</ref>
Kaat was elected to the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame]] by the [[2022 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting#Golden Days Era Committee|Golden Days Era Committee]] as a part of the class of {{bhofy|2022}}.
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