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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1871-12-23 · Played 1898–1910 · Career WAR 40.2 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=leevesa01, LAHMAN=leevesa01, MLBAM=117623, RETROSHEET=leevs101

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1898	PIT	NL	5	12	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	.250	.357	.250	.607	0.1
1899	PIT	NL	51	146	15	33	6	4	0	18	0	8	19	.226	.271	.322	.593	0.2
1900	PIT	NL	30	88	9	18	2	2	1	5	1	2	9	.205	.222	.307	.529	-0.1
1901	PIT	NL	21	71	10	13	1	0	0	4	1	5	15	.183	.247	.197	.444	-0.1
1902	PIT	NL	29	90	6	16	3	2	0	8	1	3	10	.178	.204	.256	.460	0.0
1903	PIT	NL	36	115	11	19	0	1	0	12	0	4	18	.165	.193	.183	.376	-0.5
1904	PIT	NL	34	99	12	26	2	2	1	14	0	4	10	.263	.305	.354	.659	0.8
1905	PIT	NL	33	88	4	9	2	1	0	5	0	4	10	.102	.141	.148	.289	-0.5
1906	PIT	NL	36	95	9	20	1	1	0	5	0	5	12	.211	.257	.242	.499	0.2
1907	PIT	NL	31	73	3	11	0	0	0	2	0	4	11	.151	.195	.151	.346	-0.2
1908	PIT	NL	38	61	5	9	0	1	0	3	1	4	8	.148	.212	.180	.392	0.0
1909	PIT	NL	19	24	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	3	7	.167	.259	.167	.426	0.0
1910	PIT	NL	26	31	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	.065	.121	.065	.186	-0.4
Total			389	993	90	183	17	14	2	78	4	49	138	.184	.223	.236	.458	-0.5

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1898	PIT	NL	1	0	5	3	2	0	0	33.0	26	9	0	5	15	2.45	.939	1.1
1899	PIT	NL	21	23	51	39	35	4	3	379.0	353	134	7	122	121	3.18	1.253	6.4
1900	PIT	NL	15	13	30	29	25	3	0	232.2	236	70	2	48	84	2.71	1.221	4.7
1901	PIT	NL	14	5	21	20	18	2	0	176.0	182	56	2	39	82	2.86	1.256	0.9
1902	PIT	NL	15	7	28	26	23	4	2	222.0	203	59	2	31	86	2.39	1.054	3.1
1903	PIT	NL	25	7	36	34	30	7	1	284.1	255	65	2	60	90	2.06	1.108	6.4
1904	PIT	NL	18	11	34	32	26	1	0	253.1	224	61	2	54	63	2.17	1.097	4.5
1905	PIT	NL	20	5	33	29	20	3	1	229.2	199	69	3	54	81	2.70	1.102	2.1
1906	PIT	NL	22	7	36	31	25	6	0	260.1	232	67	3	48	76	2.32	1.076	4.4
1907	PIT	NL	14	9	31	24	17	5	0	216.2	182	40	3	46	65	1.66	1.052	3.2
1908	PIT	NL	15	7	38	20	14	4	2	192.2	179	45	1	41	28	2.10	1.142	2.5
1909	PIT	NL	8	1	19	4	2	0	2	70.0	74	22	0	14	23	2.83	1.257	-0.1
1910	PIT	NL	6	5	26	8	4	0	2	111.0	104	34	2	25	33	2.76	1.162	1.5
Total			194	100	388	299	241	39	13	2660.2	2449	731	29	587	847	2.47	1.141	40.7

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1898	PIT	NL	P	5		33.0	3	5	0	0
1899	PIT	NL	P	51		379.0	10	100	6	2
1900	PIT	NL	P	30		233.0	8	52	4	0
1901	PIT	NL	P	21		176.0	3	54	2	0
1902	PIT	NL	OF	1		5.0	1	0	0	0
1902	PIT	NL	P	28		222.0	3	42	2	0
1903	PIT	NL	P	36		284.0	12	76	4	1
1904	PIT	NL	P	34	32	253.0	11	67	1	2
1905	PIT	NL	P	33	29	230.0	7	70	8	1
1906	PIT	NL	P	36	31	260.0	11	52	3	1
1907	PIT	NL	P	31	24	217.0	4	39	2	1
1908	PIT	NL	P	38	20	193.0	8	44	2	0
1909	PIT	NL	P	19	4	70.0	0	23	0	0
1910	PIT	NL	P	26	8	111.0	3	35	0	3
Total				389	148	2666.0	84	659	34	11

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1937	BBWAA	1	151	No
1980	Veterans			No
1982	Veterans			No
2003	Veterans - Players			No
2005	Veterans - Players			No
2007	Veterans - Players			No

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