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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1955-02-12 · Played 1975–1990 · Career WAR 55.6 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=lemonch01, LAHMAN=lemonch01, MLBAM=117669, RETROSHEET=lemoc001

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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
1975	CHA	AL	9	35	2	9	2	0	0	1	1	0	2	6	.257	.297	.314	.611	-0.2
1976	CHA	AL	132	451	46	111	15	5	4	38	13	7	28	65	.246	.298	.328	.626	0.4
1977	CHA	AL	150	553	99	151	38	4	19	67	8	7	52	88	.273	.343	.459	.802	5.8
1978	CHA	AL	105	357	51	107	24	6	13	55	5	9	39	46	.300	.377	.510	.887	4.9
1979	CHA	AL	148	556	79	177	44	2	17	86	7	11	56	68	.318	.391	.496	.887	5.8
1980	CHA	AL	147	514	76	150	32	6	11	51	6	6	71	56	.292	.388	.442	.830	4.2
1981	CHA	AL	94	328	50	99	23	6	9	50	5	8	33	48	.302	.384	.491	.875	4.0
1982	DET	AL	125	436	75	116	20	1	19	52	1	4	56	69	.266	.368	.447	.815	3.0
1983	DET	AL	145	491	78	125	21	5	24	69	0	7	54	70	.255	.350	.464	.814	6.2
1984	DET	AL	141	509	77	146	34	6	20	76	5	5	51	83	.287	.357	.495	.852	6.2
1985	DET	AL	145	517	69	137	28	4	18	68	0	2	45	93	.265	.334	.439	.773	4.0
1986	DET	AL	126	403	45	101	21	3	12	53	2	1	39	53	.251	.326	.407	.733	2.8
1987	DET	AL	146	470	75	130	30	3	20	75	0	0	70	82	.277	.376	.481	.857	3.9
1988	DET	AL	144	512	67	135	29	4	17	64	1	2	59	65	.264	.346	.436	.782	2.6
1989	DET	AL	127	414	45	98	19	2	7	47	1	5	46	71	.237	.323	.343	.666	-0.4
1990	DET	AL	104	322	39	83	16	4	5	32	3	2	48	61	.258	.359	.379	.738	2.4
Total			1988	6868	973	1875	396	61	215	884	58	76	749	1024	.273	.344	.442	.787	55.6

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1975	CHA	AL	3B	6	5	43.0	5	7	1	0
1975	CHA	AL	OF	1	1	8.0	0	0	0	0
1976	CHA	AL	OF	131	118	1043.0	353	12	3	1
1977	CHA	AL	OF	149	149	1301.2	512	12	12	2
1978	CHA	AL	OF	95	94	778.2	284	8	5	2
1979	CHA	AL	OF	147	147	1281.1	411	10	10	2
1980	CHA	AL	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
1980	CHA	AL	OF	139	135	1185.1	347	11	7	2
1981	CHA	AL	OF	93	94	781.0	240	2	4	1
1982	DET	AL	OF	121	117	1027.0	242	11	4	2
1983	DET	AL	OF	145	140	1258.1	406	6	5	3
1984	DET	AL	OF	140	135	1207.2	427	6	2	1
1985	DET	AL	OF	144	143	1272.1	411	6	4	3
1986	DET	AL	OF	124	111	1001.2	316	6	5	1
1987	DET	AL	OF	145	130	1171.1	350	4	3	1
1988	DET	AL	OF	144	141	1240.0	296	8	8	3
1989	DET	AL	OF	111	103	896.1	189	6	3	0
1990	DET	AL	OF	96	88	783.0	209	7	6	1
Total				1932	1851	16281.2	4998	122	82	25

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1979	Player of the Week	AL
1988	Player of the Week	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1996	BBWAA	1	353	No

Ejections (13)

Date	As	Reason
1977-07-10	Player	Fighting after knockdown pitch
1978-09-04	Player	Call at 1B
1981-04-12	Player	Called third strike (Threw bat)
1981-08-13	Player	Called third strike (Threw bat)
1982-05-14	Player	Charging mound after HBP
1983-09-05	Player	Call at HP (Threw helmet)
1984-09-28	Player	Call at 2B (Bumped umpire)
1986-07-22	Player	Balls and strikes
1987-05-25	Player	Arguing failure to call balk
1987-09-09	Player	Call at 1B
1988-09-16	Player	Called third strike (Threw bat)
1989-07-06	Player	Balls and strikes
1990-07-23	Player	Called third strike

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