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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1968	CLE	AL	88		189	26	44	4	5	0	19	23	7	17	35	.233	.295	.307	.602	0.7
1969	CLE	AL	52		123	11	25	0	0	0	6	4	3	9	26	.203	.259	.203	.462	-0.7
1970	WS2	AL	47		107	5	17	1	0	0	4	2	1	7	24	.159	.207	.168	.375	-0.8
1971	WS2	AL	85		329	47	92	11	3	5	33	17	8	23	29	.280	.328	.377	.705	1.7
1972	TEX	AL	145		499	68	113	16	3	2	28	51	17	67	81	.226	.324	.283	.607	0.8
1973	TEX	AL	142		576	71	165	24	4	7	48	43	16	34	78	.286	.325	.378	.703	3.1
1974	TEX	AL	121		474	71	112	13	1	3	42	25	13	34	72	.236	.291	.287	.578	0.4
1975	TEX	AL	28		80	9	17	1	0	2	10	6	0	8	10	.212	.289	.300	.589	-0.1
1976	KCA	AL	78		153	24	36	4	2	1	17	15	5	14	26	.235	.298	.307	.605	0.2
1977	KCA	AL	27		48	8	9	3	1	0	4	1	3	7	11	.188	.291	.292	.583	-0.2
Total			813		2578	340	630	77	19	20	211	187	73	220	392	.244	.304	.312	.616	5.1

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1968	CLE	AL	2B	59	53	452.0	115	114	3	26
1968	CLE	AL	SS	14	1	30.0	9	13	1	1
1969	CLE	AL	2B	33	30	279.1	78	94	6	28
1969	CLE	AL	OF	2	0	2.0	1	0	0	0
1970	WS2	AL	2B	33	21	214.0	64	79	2	19
1971	WS2	AL	2B	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0
1971	WS2	AL	3B	84	80	714.0	63	149	14	15
1972	TEX	AL	3B	119	113	1006.0	107	222	19	25
1972	TEX	AL	OF	15	16	140.0	24	0	3	0
1973	TEX	AL	2B	140	137	1175.0	327	364	11	98
1974	TEX	AL	2B	120	119	1042.1	295	337	20	74
1975	TEX	AL	2B	23	20	182.0	56	60	5	16
1976	KCA	AL	1B	3	0	8.0	9	2	0	3
1976	KCA	AL	2B	46	26	267.2	70	88	4	14
1977	KCA	AL	2B	11	5	51.0	11	14	2	3
Total				703	621	5565.1	1229	1537	90	322

Ejections (10)

Date	As	Reason
1973-08-12	Player	Call at 2B
1973-08-15	Player	Obscene gesture
1974-04-09	Player	Call at 2B
1974-05-09	Player	Balls and strikes
1981-04-29	Coach	Continuing LaRussa's argument
1981-09-15	Coach	Call at 1B
1983-08-08	Coach	Balk non-call
1994-06-26	Coach	Balls and strikes
2003-04-23	Coach	HBP non-call
2004-04-22	Coach	Call at 1B