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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1917-09-25 · Played 1942–1955 · Career WAR 29.3 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=sainjo01, LAHMAN=sainjo01, MLBAM=121623, RETROSHEET=sainj101

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1942	BSN	NL	40	27	0	2	0	0	0	1		1	1	.074	.107	.074	.181	-0.2
1946	BSN	NL	40	94	6	28	2	1	0	17		0	0	.298	.298	.340	.638	0.8
1947	BSN	NL	40	107	13	37	7	0	0	18		3	1	.346	.364	.411	.775	1.4
1948	BSN	NL	43	115	11	25	3	1	0	16		1	3	.217	.224	.261	.485	0.2
1949	BSN	NL	39	97	10	20	3	0	0	3		2	2	.206	.222	.237	.459	0.0
1950	BSN	NL	37	102	9	21	2	0	1	15		6	3	.206	.257	.255	.512	0.6
1951	BSN	NL	26	52	4	11	2	0	1	4	0	1	3	.212	.241	.308	.549	0.2
1951	NYA	AL	7	14	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.357	.643
1952	NYA	AL	47	71	4	19	4	1	1	14	0	3	5	.268	.297	.394	.691	0.9
1953	NYA	AL	41	68	8	17	3	1	0	8	0	5	1	.250	.301	.324	.625	0.6
1954	NYA	AL	45	17	1	6	1	0	0	5	0	2	1	.353	.421	.412	.833	0.3
1955	NYA	AL	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.2
1955	KC1	AL	25	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Total			433	774	69	190	28	4	3	101	0	24	20	.245	.268	.304	.572	4.6

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1942	BSN	NL	4	7	40	3	0	0	6	97.0	79	42	8	63	68	3.90	1.464	-1.0
1946	BSN	NL	20	14	37	34	24	3	2	265.0	225	65	8	87	129	2.21	1.177	7.2
1947	BSN	NL	21	12	38	35	22	3	1	266.0	265	104	19	79	132	3.52	1.293	4.0
1948	BSN	NL	24	15	42	39	28	4	1	314.2	297	91	19	83	137	2.60	1.208	8.5
1949	BSN	NL	10	17	37	36	16	1	0	243.0	285	130	15	75	73	4.81	1.481	-0.5
1950	BSN	NL	20	13	37	37	25	3	0	278.1	294	122	34	70	96	3.94	1.308	2.4
1951	BSN	NL	5	13	26	22	6	1	1	160.1	195	75	16	45	63	4.21	1.497	0.7
1951	NYA	AL	2	1	7	4	1	0	1	37.0	41	17	5	8	21	4.14	1.324
1952	NYA	AL	11	6	35	16	8	0	7	148.1	149	57	15	38	57	3.46	1.261	-0.7
1953	NYA	AL	14	7	40	19	10	1	9	189.0	189	63	16	45	84	3.00	1.238	2.7
1954	NYA	AL	6	6	45	0	0	0	22	77.0	66	27	11	15	33	3.16	1.052	1.5
1955	NYA	AL	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	5.1	6	4	4	1	5	6.75	1.312	-0.1
1955	KC1	AL	2	5	25	0	0	0	1	44.2	54	27	10	10	12	5.44	1.433
Total			139	116	412	245	140	16	51	2125.2	2145	824	180	619	910	3.49	1.300	24.7

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1942	BSN	NL	P	40			1	25	0	0
1946	BSN	NL	P	37			20	61	1	4
1947	BSN	NL	P	38			11	55	3	1
1948	BSN	NL	P	42			21	48	2	3
1949	BSN	NL	P	37			14	35	3	2
1950	BSN	NL	P	37			14	42	4	3
1951	BSN	NL	P	26			13	28	1	3
1951	NYA	AL	P	7			1	10	0	1
1952	NYA	AL	P	35			15	18	3	0
1953	NYA	AL	P	40			8	32	2	1
1954	NYA	AL	P	45	0	77.0	6	11	0	0
1955	NYA	AL	P	3	0	5.1	0	1	0	0
1955	KC1	AL	P	25	0	44.2	3	5	0	0
Total				412	0	127.0	127	371	19	18

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1946	Baseball Magazine All-Star	NL
1948	Baseball Magazine All-Star	NL
1948	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML
1948	TSN All-Star	ML
1948	TSN Pitcher of the Year	NL

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