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Bats: L · Throws: R · Born 1920-09-22 · Played 1941–1958 · Career WAR 48.6 (bWAR) ·

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1941	CLE	AL	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	0.0
1942	CLE	AL	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1
1946	CLE	AL	55	89	9	16	3	0	1	4	0	1	7	18	.180	.240	.247	.487	0.2
1947	CLE	AL	47	56	11	18	4	3	2	5	0	0	6	9	.321	.387	.607	.994	1.3
1948	CLE	AL	52	119	20	34	9	0	5	21	0	0	8	23	.286	.331	.487	.818	1.7
1949	CLE	AL	46	108	17	29	6	2	7	19	0	0	10	20	.269	.331	.556	.887	1.7
1950	CLE	AL	72	136	21	37	9	1	6	26	0	0	13	25	.272	.340	.485	.825	1.8
1951	CLE	AL	56	102	11	21	4	1	3	13	0	0	9	22	.206	.270	.353	.623	0.6
1952	CLE	AL	54	124	14	28	5	0	2	9	0	0	4	21	.226	.250	.315	.565	0.9
1953	CLE	AL	51	112	12	26	9	1	2	17	2	0	7	20	.232	.277	.384	.661	1.1
1954	CLE	AL	40	98	11	21	4	1	2	10	0	0	6	24	.214	.257	.337	.594	0.7
1955	CLE	AL	49	78	11	19	0	0	1	9	0	0	13	16	.244	.344	.282	.626	0.7
1956	CLE	AL	43	93	8	18	0	0	5	12	0	0	9	21	.194	.272	.355	.627	0.7
1957	CLE	AL	25	46	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	14	.065	.065	.152	.217	-0.4
1958	CLE	AL	15	13	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.231	.286	.231	.517	0.1
Total			615	1183	148	274	54	9	37	147	2	1	93	241	.232	.288	.386	.674	11.0

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1946	CLE	AL	4	5	32	5	1	0	1	94.0	77	26	1	68	39	2.49	1.543	0.9
1947	CLE	AL	11	5	37	15	6	1	3	167.1	150	64	7	97	65	3.44	1.476	1.1
1948	CLE	AL	20	14	43	37	20	10	2	293.2	231	92	12	129	147	2.82	1.226	4.7
1949	CLE	AL	22	10	37	33	22	2	1	279.2	211	93	19	137	138	2.99	1.244	5.4
1950	CLE	AL	23	11	44	37	22	3	3	288.0	281	123	28	146	170	3.84	1.483	2.7
1951	CLE	AL	17	14	42	34	17	1	2	263.1	244	103	19	124	132	3.52	1.397	2.8
1952	CLE	AL	22	11	42	36	28	5	4	309.2	236	86	15	105	131	2.50	1.101	4.9
1953	CLE	AL	21	15	41	36	23	5	1	286.2	283	107	16	110	98	3.36	1.371	3.2
1954	CLE	AL	23	7	36	33	21	2	0	258.1	228	78	12	92	110	2.72	1.239	4.2
1955	CLE	AL	18	10	35	31	5	0	2	211.1	218	91	17	74	100	3.88	1.382	2.8
1956	CLE	AL	20	14	39	35	21	2	3	255.1	230	86	23	89	94	3.03	1.249	5.2
1957	CLE	AL	6	11	21	17	2	0	0	117.1	129	60	9	64	45	4.60	1.645	-0.2
1958	CLE	AL	0	1	11	1	0	0	0	25.1	41	15	3	16	8	5.33	2.250	-0.1
Total			207	128	460	350	188	31	22	2850.0	2559	1024	181	1251	1277	3.23	1.337	37.6

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1941	CLE	AL	3B	1			1	1	0	0
1942	CLE	AL	3B	1			0	1	1	0
1946	CLE	AL	OF	12			33	2	1	2
1946	CLE	AL	P	32			13	28	1	5
1947	CLE	AL	OF	2			1	0	0	0
1947	CLE	AL	P	37			12	46	1	4
1948	CLE	AL	P	43			23	86	4	8
1949	CLE	AL	P	37			34	71	4	5
1950	CLE	AL	P	44			22	66	4	6
1951	CLE	AL	P	42			21	60	2	5
1952	CLE	AL	P	42			32	79	2	7
1953	CLE	AL	P	41			31	74	3	15
1954	CLE	AL	P	36	33	258.1	22	57	3	8
1955	CLE	AL	P	35	31	211.1	16	43	1	3
1956	CLE	AL	P	39	35	255.2	24	61	6	6
1957	CLE	AL	P	21	17	117.1	12	31	0	5
1958	CLE	AL	P	11	1	25.1	1	7	0	1
Total				476	117	868.0	298	713	33	80

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1948	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL
1948	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML
1948	TSN All-Star	ML
1948	TSN Pitcher of the Year	AL
1950	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL
1950	TSN All-Star	ML
1950	TSN Pitcher of the Year	AL
1954	TSN All-Star	ML
1954	TSN Pitcher of the Year	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1964	BBWAA	24	151	No
1964	Run Off	3		No
1966	BBWAA	21	227	No
1967	BBWAA	35	219	No
1967	Run Off	7		No
1968	BBWAA	47	213	No
1969	BBWAA	56	255	No
1970	BBWAA	75	225	No
1971	BBWAA	90	270	No
1972	BBWAA	117	297	No
1973	BBWAA	177	285	No
1974	BBWAA	190	274	No
1975	BBWAA	233	272	No
1976	BBWAA	305	291	Yes

Ejections (10)

Date	As	Reason
1953-08-11	Player	Balls and strikes
1954-07-11	Player	Balls and strikes (Threw glove)
1957-06-19	Player	Call at 1B
1967-07-14	Coach	Interference non-call
1970-06-13	Manager	HBP call
1971-04-19	Manager	HBP call
1972-05-25	Manager	Obstruction non-call
1972-08-22	Manager	Balls and strikes
1972-09-20	Manager	Time out call
1977-05-22	Manager	Runner placement after fan interference