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Bats: L · Throws: L · Born 1918-06-21 · Played 1944–1955 · Career WAR 31.9 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=lopated01, LAHMAN=lopated01, MLBAM=117909, RETROSHEET=lopae101

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1944	CHA	AL	30	81	8	25	1	1	0	6	0	5	5	.309	.349	.346	.695	0.8
1945	CHA	AL	32	82	13	24	4	0	1	13	0	2	9	.293	.310	.378	.688	0.8
1946	CHA	AL	30	87	10	22	2	1	0	10	0	8	7	.253	.316	.299	.615	0.8
1947	CHA	AL	35	96	5	19	3	0	0	11	0	4	6	.198	.230	.229	.459	0.2
1948	NYA	AL	34	81	6	14	0	0	0	10	0	8	6	.173	.247	.173	.420	-0.1
1949	NYA	AL	31	76	9	20	8	0	1	4	0	7	8	.263	.325	.408	.733	0.7
1950	NYA	AL	36	82	14	19	2	3	0	7	0	17	9	.232	.364	.329	.693	1.1
1951	NYA	AL	31	84	7	15	1	0	3	9	1	7	10	.179	.242	.298	.540	0.1
1952	NYA	AL	20	52	7	9	2	0	0	4	0	3	5	.173	.218	.212	.430	0.1
1953	NYA	AL	26	63	5	12	3	0	0	1	0	5	13	.190	.250	.238	.488	0.0
1954	NYA	AL	26	57	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	5	6	.018	.095	.018	.113	-0.6
1955	NYA	AL	16	29	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.138	.138	.138	.276	-0.2
1955	BAL	AL	10	17	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.176	.263	.176	.439
Total			357	887	87	187	26	5	5	77	1	73	92	.211	.271	.268	.539	3.7

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1944	CHA	AL	11	10	27	25	13	1	0	210.0	217	76	12	59	75	3.26	1.314	1.3
1945	CHA	AL	10	13	26	24	17	1	1	199.1	226	91	8	56	74	4.11	1.415	-0.2
1946	CHA	AL	13	13	29	29	20	2	0	231.0	216	70	18	48	89	2.73	1.143	4.0
1947	CHA	AL	16	13	31	31	22	3	0	252.2	241	79	17	73	109	2.81	1.243	5.5
1948	NYA	AL	17	11	33	31	13	3	0	226.2	246	92	16	66	83	3.65	1.376	2.2
1949	NYA	AL	15	10	31	30	14	4	1	215.1	222	78	19	69	70	3.26	1.351	2.6
1950	NYA	AL	18	8	35	32	15	3	1	236.1	244	91	19	65	72	3.47	1.307	3.1
1951	NYA	AL	21	9	31	31	20	4	0	234.2	209	76	12	71	93	2.91	1.193	3.6
1952	NYA	AL	10	5	20	19	10	2	0	149.1	127	42	11	53	56	2.53	1.205	2.2
1953	NYA	AL	16	4	25	24	9	3	0	178.1	169	48	13	32	50	2.42	1.127	3.1
1954	NYA	AL	12	4	26	23	7	0	0	170.0	189	67	14	33	54	3.55	1.306	1.0
1955	NYA	AL	4	8	16	12	3	1	0	86.2	101	36	12	16	24	3.74	1.350	-0.2
1955	BAL	AL	3	4	10	7	1	0	0	49.0	57	23	8	9	10	4.22	1.347
Total			166	112	340	318	164	27	3	2439.1	2464	869	179	650	859	3.21	1.277	28.2

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1944	CHA	AL	P	27			9	44	0	4
1945	CHA	AL	P	26			15	32	2	0
1946	CHA	AL	P	29			8	48	0	4
1947	CHA	AL	P	31			12	36	2	0
1948	NYA	AL	P	33			6	50	3	3
1949	NYA	AL	P	31			7	42	2	5
1950	NYA	AL	P	35			10	47	2	4
1951	NYA	AL	P	31			9	50	3	4
1952	NYA	AL	P	20			6	30	1	2
1953	NYA	AL	P	25			8	38	2	1
1954	NYA	AL	P	26	23	170.0	3	28	1	1
1955	NYA	AL	P	16	12	86.2	3	11	1	1
1955	BAL	AL	P	10	7	49.0	4	12	0	1
Total				340	42	305.2	100	468	19	30

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1968	BBWAA	2	213	No
1969	BBWAA	2	255	No
1970	BBWAA	1	225	No
1971	BBWAA	4	270	No
1972	BBWAA	2	297	No
2003	Veterans - Players			No
2005	Veterans - Players			No
2007	Veterans - Players			No

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