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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1923-08-10 · Played 1948–1959 · Career WAR 17.7 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=portebo01, LAHMAN=portebo01, MLBAM=120687, RETROSHEET=portb102

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1948	NYA	AL	16	24	4	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	.250	.280	.250	.530	0.1
1949	NYA	AL	12	19	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.053	.100	.105	.205	-0.2
1950	NYA	AL	11	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	0.1
1951	NYA	AL	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					-0.2
1951	WS1	AL	19	46	3	6	0	0	0	2	0	2	12	.130	.184	.130	.314
1952	WS1	AL	31	79	5	15	3	0	0	3	0	2	18	.190	.210	.228	.438	0.0
1953	WS1	AL	37	98	8	25	7	0	3	16	1	6	20	.255	.298	.418	.716	1.2
1954	WS1	AL	32	88	3	9	0	0	1	5	0	4	24	.102	.149	.136	.285	-0.4
1955	WS1	AL	30	63	3	12	3	1	0	7	0	0	15	.190	.185	.270	.455	-0.1
1956	BOS	AL	25	43	4	14	0	0	1	5	0	1	10	.326	.348	.395	.743	0.3
1957	BOS	AL	28	29	2	5	1	0	0	2	0	2	8	.172	.219	.207	.426	0.0
1958	BOS	AL	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					-0.1
1958	PIT	NL	37	20	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	7	.050	.095	.200	.295
1959	PIT	NL	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					-0.1
1959	CHN	NL	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
1959	PIT	NL	30	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
Total			322	516	34	95	15	1	6	43	1	20	123	.184	.215	.252	.466	0.6

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1948	NYA	AL	5	3	16	12	2	1	0	78.0	85	39	5	34	30	4.50	1.526	0.1
1949	NYA	AL	2	5	12	8	3	0	0	57.2	53	26	3	29	25	4.06	1.422	0.5
1950	NYA	AL	1	1	10	2	0	0	1	19.2	28	19	2	8	9	8.69	1.831	-0.6
1951	NYA	AL	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3.0	5	5	0	3	2	15.00	2.667	3.0
1951	WS1	AL	9	8	19	19	10	3	0	133.1	109	48	8	54	53	3.24	1.222
1952	WS1	AL	13	14	31	29	15	3	0	231.1	222	70	7	85	80	2.72	1.327	5.3
1953	WS1	AL	22	10	34	32	24	9	0	255.0	243	95	19	73	77	3.35	1.239	4.2
1954	WS1	AL	13	15	32	31	21	2	0	244.0	249	90	14	77	82	3.32	1.336	2.7
1955	WS1	AL	10	17	30	27	8	2	0	178.0	197	88	14	54	74	4.45	1.410	1.2
1956	BOS	AL	3	12	25	18	4	1	0	126.0	127	72	21	64	53	5.14	1.516	-0.6
1957	BOS	AL	4	4	28	9	3	1	1	102.1	107	46	8	30	28	4.05	1.339	0.1
1958	BOS	AL	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	4.0	3	2	1	0	1	4.50	.750	1.5
1958	PIT	NL	4	6	37	6	2	1	5	87.2	78	32	7	19	39	3.29	1.106
1959	PIT	NL	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	5.1	6	1	1	2	1	1.69	1.500	-0.3
1959	CHN	NL	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	6.1	14	8	1	3	0	11.37	2.684
1959	PIT	NL	1	2	30	0	0	0	1	36.0	45	19	2	17	18	4.75	1.722
Total			87	97	318	193	92	23	8	1567.2	1571	660	113	552	572	3.79	1.354	17.1

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1948	NYA	AL	P	16			4	8	0	0
1949	NYA	AL	P	12			1	10	3	1
1950	NYA	AL	P	10			1	3	0	0
1951	NYA	AL	P	2			0	1	0	0
1951	WS1	AL	P	19			8	23	2	0
1952	WS1	AL	P	31			4	34	0	0
1953	WS1	AL	P	34			16	50	0	4
1954	WS1	AL	P	32	31	244.0	10	61	3	4
1955	WS1	AL	P	30	27	178.0	8	28	1	2
1956	BOS	AL	P	25	18	125.0	8	14	2	1
1957	BOS	AL	P	28	9	102.1	7	23	3	1
1958	BOS	AL	P	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0
1958	PIT	NL	P	37	6	87.2	8	13	0	0
1959	PIT	NL	P	6	0	41.1	0	0	0	0
1959	CHN	NL	P	4	0	6.2	0	2	0	1
1959	PIT	NL	P	30			5	10	1	1
Total				318	91	789.0	80	280	15	15

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1953	TSN All-Star	ML
1953	TSN Pitcher of the Year	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1966	BBWAA	1	227	No

Ejections (1)

Date	As	Reason
1958-07-23	Player	Picking up live ball while in bullpen