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Bats: L · Throws: L · Born 1921-05-20 · Played 1939–1955 · Career WAR 62.6 (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
1939	DET	AL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0
1940	DET	AL	28	40	3	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	4	.200	.256	.200	.456	-0.1
1941	DET	AL	33	60	3	9	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	8	.150	.190	.150	.340	-0.3
1942	DET	AL	39	52	1	8	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	8	.154	.200	.192	.392	-0.1
1943	DET	AL	37	65	4	12	2	0	0	5	0	0	3	8	.185	.221	.215	.436	-0.1
1944	DET	AL	47	120	10	29	4	0	0	5	1	0	6	12	.242	.278	.275	.553	0.6
1945	DET	AL	40	109	9	28	5	1	0	17	0	1	7	10	.257	.302	.321	.623	0.8
1946	DET	AL	37	103	6	13	3	0	2	11	1	0	6	27	.126	.174	.214	.388	-0.1
1947	DET	AL	40	96	5	19	0	0	0	9	0	0	15	20	.198	.306	.198	.504	0.5
1948	DET	AL	39	92	6	19	0	1	0	6	0	0	10	14	.207	.284	.228	.512	0.3
1949	DET	AL	38	91	8	18	3	0	0	6	0	2	12	19	.198	.291	.231	.522	0.3
1950	DET	AL	35	74	6	13	2	0	0	8	0	0	5	8	.176	.228	.203	.431	-0.1
1951	DET	AL	17	29	4	9	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	3	.310	.412	.310	.722	0.3
1952	DET	AL	26	46	5	10	1	0	0	4	0	0	10	9	.217	.357	.239	.596	0.5
1953	DET	AL	7	8	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	.500	.556	.500	1.056	0.2
1954	CLE	AL	26	13	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	0.0
1955	CLE	AL	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0
Total			492	999	71	201	22	2	2	81	3	3	89	150	.201	.267	.233	.500	2.7

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1939	DET	AL	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	5.0	3	3	0	4	4	5.40	1.400	0.1
1940	DET	AL	9	9	28	20	7	0	0	133.1	149	72	12	76	89	4.86	1.688	1.1
1941	DET	AL	9	11	33	27	5	1	0	173.0	166	92	6	137	106	4.79	1.751	1.1
1942	DET	AL	8	14	38	23	11	1	5	183.2	137	50	4	114	103	2.45	1.367	4.1
1943	DET	AL	8	17	37	25	10	1	1	195.2	163	66	3	111	144	3.04	1.400	1.4
1944	DET	AL	29	9	47	34	25	6	2	312.1	264	77	6	102	187	2.22	1.172	7.7
1945	DET	AL	25	9	40	36	29	8	2	313.1	239	63	5	110	212	1.81	1.114	11.3
1946	DET	AL	26	9	37	34	29	6	1	292.2	215	63	10	98	275	1.94	1.069	9.7
1947	DET	AL	17	17	40	36	24	3	2	285.0	268	91	9	110	176	2.87	1.326	5.8
1948	DET	AL	21	12	39	35	19	2	1	272.1	249	91	10	99	143	3.01	1.278	6.5
1949	DET	AL	18	11	38	35	22	3	1	292.0	277	109	19	111	144	3.36	1.329	5.4
1950	DET	AL	15	13	35	30	15	1	3	213.2	232	103	23	81	87	4.34	1.465	2.3
1951	DET	AL	6	6	15	14	7	1	0	96.1	98	42	10	19	37	3.92	1.215	1.1
1952	DET	AL	9	9	25	19	8	0	0	154.0	148	64	13	47	57	3.74	1.266	1.7
1953	DET	AL	0	1	7	4	0	0	1	21.2	31	17	4	8	6	7.06	1.800	-0.7
1954	CLE	AL	7	2	26	1	0	0	7	46.2	34	13	3	18	25	2.51	1.114	1.1
1955	CLE	AL	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2.1	1	0	0	4	1	0.00	2.143	0.2
Total			207	150	488	374	212	33	26	2993.0	2674	1016	137	1249	1796	3.06	1.311	59.9

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1939	DET	AL	P	1			0	1	0	0
1940	DET	AL	P	28			5	31	1	0
1941	DET	AL	P	33			4	37	0	4
1942	DET	AL	P	38			10	45	1	3
1943	DET	AL	P	37			8	49	1	1
1944	DET	AL	P	47			9	61	1	5
1945	DET	AL	P	40			16	66	0	5
1946	DET	AL	P	37			15	47	3	4
1947	DET	AL	P	40			23	52	4	3
1948	DET	AL	P	39			11	52	1	5
1949	DET	AL	P	38			7	69	3	3
1950	DET	AL	P	35			10	37	2	1
1951	DET	AL	P	15			3	22	2	4
1952	DET	AL	P	25			10	31	3	2
1953	DET	AL	P	7			1	4	0	0
1954	CLE	AL	P	26	1	46.2	3	7	0	0
1955	CLE	AL	P	2	0	2.1	0	0	0	0
Total				488	1	49.0	135	611	22	40

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1944	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL
1944	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML
1944	Most Valuable Player	AL
1944	TSN All-Star	ML
1944	TSN Pitcher of the Year	AL
1945	Pitching Triple Crown	AL
1945	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL
1945	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML
1945	Most Valuable Player	AL
1945	TSN All-Star	ML
1945	TSN Major League Player of the Year	ML
1945	TSN Pitcher of the Year	AL
1946	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL
1946	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML
1946	TSN All-Star	ML
1947	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL
1947	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML
1948	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL
1948	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML

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