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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1944-03-29 · Played 1963–1972 · Career WAR 19.1 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=mclaide01, LAHMAN=mclaide01, MLBAM=118787, RETROSHEET=mclad101

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1963	DET	AL	3	5	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	.200	.167	.800	.967	0.1
1964	DET	AL	20	37	2	5	0	0	0	2	0	1	15	.135	.158	.135	.293	0.1
1965	DET	AL	33	74	2	4	0	0	0	3	0	6	32	.054	.123	.054	.177	-0.6
1966	DET	AL	38	93	10	17	2	0	0	5	1	5	39	.183	.224	.204	.428	0.2
1967	DET	AL	38	85	3	10	0	0	0	0	0	2	37	.118	.138	.118	.256	-0.5
1968	DET	AL	44	111	7	18	1	1	0	4	0	1	37	.162	.170	.189	.359	-0.1
1969	DET	AL	42	106	5	17	0	0	0	8	0	4	41	.160	.188	.160	.348	-0.3
1970	DET	AL	14	31	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	13	.065	.065	.097	.162	-0.2
1971	WS2	AL	33	58	0	6	1	1	0	7	0	4	22	.103	.161	.155	.316	0.0
1972	OAK	AL	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0
1972	ATL	NL	15	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.167	.286	.167	.453
Total			285	616	32	82	5	2	1	31	1	25	244	.133	.167	.153	.320	-1.3

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1963	DET	AL	2	1	3	3	2	0	0	21.0	20	10	2	16	22	4.29	1.714	-0.1
1964	DET	AL	4	5	19	16	3	0	0	100.0	84	45	16	37	70	4.05	1.210	0.2
1965	DET	AL	16	6	33	29	13	4	1	220.1	174	64	25	62	192	2.61	1.071	4.5
1966	DET	AL	20	14	38	38	14	4	0	264.1	205	115	42	104	192	3.92	1.169	2.1
1967	DET	AL	17	16	37	37	10	3	0	235.0	209	99	35	73	161	3.79	1.200	-0.2
1968	DET	AL	31	6	41	41	28	6	0	336.0	241	73	31	63	280	1.96	.905	7.4
1969	DET	AL	24	9	42	41	23	9	0	325.0	288	101	25	67	181	2.80	1.092	8.1
1970	DET	AL	3	5	14	14	1	0	0	91.1	100	47	19	28	52	4.63	1.401	0.6
1971	WS2	AL	10	22	33	32	9	3	0	216.2	233	103	31	72	103	4.28	1.408	-0.4
1972	OAK	AL	1	2	5	5	0	0	0	22.1	32	15	4	8	8	6.04	1.791	-1.8
1972	ATL	NL	3	5	15	8	2	0	1	54.0	60	39	12	18	21	6.50	1.444
Total			131	91	280	264	105	29	2	1886.0	1646	711	242	548	1282	3.39	1.163	20.4

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1963	DET	AL	P	3	3	21.0	0	6	2	2
1964	DET	AL	P	19	16	100.0	4	6	1	0
1965	DET	AL	P	33	29	220.1	17	30	1	1
1966	DET	AL	P	38	38	264.1	14	34	0	2
1967	DET	AL	P	37	37	235.0	21	22	5	4
1968	DET	AL	P	41	41	336.0	36	40	1	3
1969	DET	AL	P	42	41	325.0	26	24	2	1
1970	DET	AL	P	14	14	91.0	7	14	0	1
1971	WS2	AL	P	33	32	217.0	27	26	0	1
1972	OAK	AL	P	5	5	22.0	0	5	0	0
1972	ATL	NL	P	15	8	54.0	2	5	1	0
Total				280	264	1885.2	154	212	13	15

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1968	Most Valuable Player	AL
1968	TSN All-Star	AL
1968	TSN Major League Player of the Year	ML
1968	TSN Pitcher of the Year	AL
1968	Cy Young Award	AL
1969	TSN All-Star	AL
1969	TSN Pitcher of the Year	AL
1969	Cy Young Award	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1978	BBWAA	1	285	No
1979	BBWAA	3	324	No
1985	BBWAA	2	297	No
2003	Veterans - Players			No
2005	Veterans - Players			No
2007	Veterans - Players			No

Ejections (2)

Date	As	Reason
1970-08-17	Player	Balk call
1971-04-23	Player	Balls and strikes