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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1927-11-01 · Played 1954–1965 · Career WAR 15.2 (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
1954	PHA	AL	127	462	36	118	17	5	8	38	2	1	19	19	.255	.287	.366	.653	0.0
1955	KC1	AL	147	596	91	190	34	10	19	76	0	2	35	27	.319	.354	.505	.859	3.6
1956	KC1	AL	127	530	77	164	21	5	14	63	2	2	24	16	.309	.340	.447	.787	1.6
1957	KC1	AL	129	467	48	121	15	1	14	42	3	2	19	21	.259	.291	.385	.676	0.9
1958	KC1	AL	52	205	35	62	13	4	4	27	1	1	7	3	.302	.325	.463	.788	4.7
1958	CLE	AL	93	385	63	122	24	6	12	53	2	1	13	11	.317	.336	.504	.840
1959	CLE	AL	147	595	102	172	31	6	10	60	9	13	40	22	.289	.334	.412	.746	2.6
1960	CLE	AL	147	580	69	167	26	3	10	84	9	5	24	20	.288	.313	.395	.708	2.0
1961	CLE	AL	147	563	64	151	34	4	5	63	4	3	38	16	.268	.309	.369	.678	-0.8
1962	MIN	AL	144	611	80	177	28	2	16	63	7	1	22	35	.290	.316	.421	.737	1.5
1963	MIN	AL	138	541	65	146	28	2	10	52	3	1	22	24	.270	.297	.384	.681	0.2
1964	MIN	AL	19	45	6	10	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.222	.239	.267	.506	-0.5
1964	LAA	AL	68	221	17	55	6	0	3	13	1	1	8	14	.249	.275	.317	.592
1964	PHI	NL	18	48	1	10	4	0	0	3	0	0	2	3	.208	.240	.292	.532
1965	CAL	AL	124	197	11	51	7	1	1	20	2	2	5	13	.259	.281	.320	.601	-0.6
Total			1627	6046	765	1716	290	49	126	658	45	35	279	247	.284	.315	.411	.726	15.2

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1954	PHA	AL	1B	21	17	155.1	150	12	2	17
1954	PHA	AL	3B	1	0	4.0	0	1	0	0
1954	PHA	AL	OF	101	97	835.2	256	13	4	3
1954	PHA	AL	SS	1	0	1.1	0	0	0	0
1955	KC1	AL	1B	144	143	1248.0	1281	130	10	140
1956	KC1	AL	1B	76	72	630.2	671	62	5	73
1956	KC1	AL	2B	47	45	389.2	122	138	7	40
1956	KC1	AL	OF	7	6	56.0	14	0	0	0
1957	KC1	AL	1B	113	100	935.0	968	99	2	95
1957	KC1	AL	2B	4	4	30.0	12	7	0	0
1957	KC1	AL	OF	6	6	38.0	12	0	1	0
1958	KC1	AL	1B	50	50	441.0	439	48	4	57
1958	KC1	AL	2B	1	0	5.0	2	0	0	0
1958	CLE	AL	1B	41	28	284.2	263	29	2	37
1958	CLE	AL	2B	27	23	205.2	49	65	3	16
1958	CLE	AL	3B	42	40	327.2	51	78	3	12
1958	CLE	AL	OF	1	1	7.0	1	0	0	0
1958	CLE	AL	SS	2	0	5.0	1	0	0	0
1959	CLE	AL	1B	121	118	1063.1	1039	110	6	98
1959	CLE	AL	2B	21	21	178.0	48	54	3	6
1959	CLE	AL	3B	7	7	54.0	7	10	1	1
1960	CLE	AL	1B	147	147	1293.0	1177	145	5	145
1960	CLE	AL	3B	4	0	9.0	1	3	0	0
1960	CLE	AL	SS	5	0	11.0	6	3	0	1
1961	CLE	AL	1B	141	139	1246.0	1154	142	8	101
1961	CLE	AL	2B	7	7	60.0	20	22	2	7
1962	MIN	AL	1B	142	141	1240.1	1193	134	10	133
1962	MIN	AL	2B	2	0	5.0	2	0	0	0
1963	MIN	AL	1B	124	99	923.1	896	76	8	86
1963	MIN	AL	2B	18	18	146.0	44	45	4	9
1963	MIN	AL	3B	5	5	41.0	7	8	0	0
1964	MIN	AL	1B	12	7	78.2	86	9	1	8
1964	MIN	AL	2B	1			0	3	0	0
1964	LAA	AL	1B	48	25	285.2	282	30	0	22
1964	LAA	AL	2B	5	3	21.2	6	2	0	2
1964	LAA	AL	3B	28	27	199.2	20	49	3	2
1964	PHI	NL	1B	17	11	116.2	123	11	1	9
1965	CAL	AL	1B	107	30	423.1	419	41	2	35
1965	CAL	AL	2B	6	5	36.0	8	10	0	3
1965	CAL	AL	3B	2	2	15.0	3	3	0	0
Total				1655	1444	13046.1	10833	1592	97	1158

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1958	Gold Glove	AL
1959	Gold Glove	AL
1960	Gold Glove	AL
1961	Gold Glove	AL
1962	Gold Glove	AL
1963	Gold Glove	AL
1964	Gold Glove	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1971	BBWAA	2	270	No
1972	BBWAA	3	297	No

Ejections (13)