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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1899-03-17 · Played 1923–1941 · Career WAR 37.9 (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
1923	SLA	AL	27	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.077	.143	.077	.220	-0.1
1926	CHN	NL	42	91	8	13	1	0	1	7	0		2	25	.143	.179	.187	.366	-0.4
1927	CHN	NL	48	122	15	27	6	1	0	8	0		4	35	.221	.252	.287	.539	0.2
1928	CHN	NL	40	73	5	13	5	0	0	5	0		2	18	.178	.200	.247	.447	-0.1
1929	CHN	NL	43	96	8	15	3	4	1	15	0		4	28	.156	.190	.302	.492	-0.2
1930	CHN	NL	37	80	4	21	8	0	1	6	1		4	21	.263	.306	.400	.706	0.4
1931	CHN	NL	39	90	7	20	8	0	0	8	0		4	31	.222	.255	.311	.566	0.2
1932	CHN	NL	39	76	4	13	1	0	1	10	0		0	29	.171	.171	.224	.395	-0.2
1933	CHN	NL	35	85	1	8	3	0	0	0	0		4	22	.094	.135	.129	.264	-0.5
1934	CHN	NL	34	40	3	7	3	0	2	4	0		0	13	.175	.175	.400	.575	0.2
1935	CHN	NL	38	69	8	14	2	1	1	7	0		3	22	.203	.236	.304	.540	0.1
1936	CHN	NL	33	15	1	5	0	0	0	0	0		2	4	.333	.412	.333	.745	0.2
1937	CHN	NL	43	67	7	12	2	0	1	9	0		1	19	.179	.203	.254	.457	0.1
1938	CHN	NL	44	48	2	8	1	0	0	3	0		4	16	.167	.231	.188	.419	0.1
1939	CHN	NL	35	57	4	10	2	1	2	6	0		2	21	.175	.217	.351	.568	0.2
1940	CHN	NL	36	31	4	4	0	0	0	1	0		2	10	.129	.206	.129	.335	-0.1
1941	CHN	NL	19	33	4	5	1	0	1	4	0		5	10	.152	.263	.273	.536	0.2
Total			632	1086	86	196	46	7	11	93	1	0	44	329	.180	.212	.266	.479	0.3

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1923	SLA	AL	0	4	27	2	0	0	0	60.0	68	38	4	18	27	5.70	1.433	-0.3
1926	CHN	NL	18	17	42	32	21	2	2	271.1	267	85	10	62	127	2.82	1.213	5.2
1927	CHN	NL	26	15	48	36	21	4	2	309.0	296	129	16	117	145	3.76	1.337	2.9
1928	CHN	NL	14	18	40	30	13	1	2	237.0	214	94	15	73	122	3.57	1.211	1.9
1929	CHN	NL	19	6	43	31	19	4	5	272.0	286	105	12	83	124	3.47	1.357	4.8
1930	CHN	NL	16	14	37	30	15	4	3	220.1	247	106	17	63	124	4.33	1.407	3.0
1931	CHN	NL	17	14	39	31	19	3	2	251.0	240	97	7	71	131	3.48	1.239	3.5
1932	CHN	NL	15	10	39	23	11	0	3	216.1	211	86	10	55	96	3.58	1.230	2.0
1933	CHN	NL	15	10	35	30	20	2	0	242.1	232	70	14	61	86	2.60	1.209	3.7
1934	CHN	NL	4	7	34	9	2	0	0	117.2	141	56	8	53	46	4.28	1.649	0.6
1935	CHN	NL	15	8	38	18	11	1	2	201.1	193	69	15	47	94	3.08	1.192	2.2
1936	CHN	NL	3	6	33	4	0	0	1	73.2	81	34	3	20	32	4.15	1.371	0.7
1937	CHN	NL	13	5	43	15	5	0	5	178.2	173	67	18	32	74	3.38	1.147	3.3
1938	CHN	NL	8	7	44	11	5	0	8	160.2	163	51	10	30	70	2.86	1.201	3.3
1939	CHN	NL	8	8	35	16	8	0	4	167.1	189	75	11	34	65	4.03	1.333	1.8
1940	CHN	NL	2	4	36	8	1	0	1	112.0	118	48	9	33	50	3.86	1.348	-0.1
1941	CHN	NL	8	7	19	15	6	0	0	106.2	133	64	8	37	46	5.40	1.594	-0.9
Total			201	160	632	341	177	21	40	3197.1	3252	1274	187	889	1459	3.59	1.295	37.6

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	PO	A	E	DP
1923	SLA	AL	P	27	1	13	0	0
1926	CHN	NL	P	42	8	58	4	4
1927	CHN	NL	P	48	6	49	2	2
1928	CHN	NL	P	40	6	39	1	2
1929	CHN	NL	P	43	12	35	1	2
1930	CHN	NL	P	37	9	27	0	1
1931	CHN	NL	P	39	3	38	1	0
1932	CHN	NL	P	39	8	32	0	0
1933	CHN	NL	P	35	11	36	1	4
1934	CHN	NL	P	34	2	23	0	1
1935	CHN	NL	P	38	7	27	1	0
1936	CHN	NL	P	33	2	10	0	1
1937	CHN	NL	P	43	8	36	1	2
1938	CHN	NL	P	44	5	23	1	0
1939	CHN	NL	P	35	2	22	2	0
1940	CHN	NL	P	36	3	22	0	0
1941	CHN	NL	P	19	2	16	0	2
Total				632	95	506	15	21

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1927	Baseball Magazine All-Star	NL
1927	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML
1927	TSN All-Star	ML

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1945	BBWAA	1	186	No
1948	BBWAA	3	91	No
1949	BBWAA	1	115	No
1950	BBWAA	1	126	No
1958	BBWAA	6	200	No
1960	BBWAA	2	202	No
2003	Veterans - Players			No
2005	Veterans - Players			No
2007	Veterans - Players			No

Ejections (1)

Date	As	Reason
1951-04-28	Coach	Call at 1B