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Earl TorgesonWWikipedia↗

Bats: L · Throws: L · Born 1924-01-01 · Played 1947–1961 · Career WAR 33.0 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=torgeea01, LAHMAN=torgeea01, MLBAM=123402, RETROSHEET=torge101

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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
1947	BSN	NL	128	399	73	112	20	6	16	78	11		82	59	.281	.403	.481	.884	3.6
1948	BSN	NL	134	438	70	111	23	5	10	67	19		81	54	.253	.372	.397	.769	3.5
1949	BSN	NL	25	100	17	26	5	1	4	19	4		13	4	.260	.345	.450	.795	0.6
1950	BSN	NL	156	576	120	167	30	3	23	87	15		119	69	.290	.412	.472	.884	5.9
1951	BSN	NL	155	581	99	153	21	4	24	92	20	11	102	70	.263	.375	.437	.812	4.2
1952	BSN	NL	122	382	49	88	17	0	5	34	11	7	81	38	.230	.366	.314	.680	1.2
1953	PHI	NL	111	379	58	104	25	8	11	64	7	1	53	57	.274	.366	.470	.836	2.3
1954	PHI	NL	135	490	63	133	22	6	5	54	7	1	75	52	.271	.364	.371	.735	1.6
1955	PHI	NL	47	150	29	40	5	3	1	17	2	3	32	20	.267	.393	.360	.753	3.7
1955	DET	AL	89	300	58	85	10	1	9	50	9	0	61	29	.283	.397	.413	.810
1956	DET	AL	117	318	61	84	9	3	12	42	6	4	78	47	.264	.406	.425	.831	1.8
1957	DET	AL	30	50	5	12	2	1	1	5	0	0	12	10	.240	.387	.380	.767	2.2
1957	CHA	AL	86	251	53	74	11	2	7	46	7	3	49	44	.295	.406	.438	.844
1958	CHA	AL	96	188	37	50	8	0	10	30	7	2	48	29	.266	.415	.468	.883	1.8
1959	CHA	AL	127	277	40	61	5	3	9	45	7	6	62	55	.220	.359	.357	.716	0.2
1960	CHA	AL	68	57	12	15	2	0	2	9	1	0	21	8	.263	.462	.404	.866	0.8
1961	CHA	AL	20	15	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	5	.067	.211	.067	.278	-0.4
1961	NYA	AL	22	18	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	3	.111	.385	.111	.496
Total			1668	4969	848	1318	215	46	149	740	133	39	980	653	.265	.386	.417	.803	33.0

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1947	BSN	NL	1B	117			1033	76	18	83
1948	BSN	NL	1B	129			1069	81	8	85
1949	BSN	NL	1B	25			242	8	3	21
1950	BSN	NL	1B	156			1365	110	21	126
1951	BSN	NL	1B	155			1330	107	17	137
1952	BSN	NL	1B	105			931	73	11	86
1952	BSN	NL	OF	5			4	1	1	0
1953	PHI	NL	1B	105			916	65	13	83
1954	PHI	NL	1B	133	131	1164.1	1146	74	12	103
1955	PHI	NL	1B	43	43	374.2	349	26	2	27
1955	DET	AL	1B	83	80	717.2	695	53	6	79
1956	DET	AL	1B	83	75	680.1	623	32	5	62
1957	DET	AL	1B	17	9	103.2	98	7	0	11
1957	CHA	AL	1B	70	62	561.1	612	29	1	72
1957	CHA	AL	OF	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0
1958	CHA	AL	1B	73	45	462.0	470	30	11	54
1959	CHA	AL	1B	103	68	710.0	717	37	13	58
1960	CHA	AL	1B	10	4	44.0	54	4	1	3
1961	CHA	AL	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0
1961	NYA	AL	1B	8	3	36.0	29	2	1	7
Total				1422	520	4859.0	11684	815	144	1097

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1967	BBWAA	2	219	No

Ejections (8)

Date	As	Reason
1948-07-31	Player	Called third strike
1950-06-19	Player	Charging the mound
1951-07-02	Player	Call at 2B
1952-07-01	Player	Fighting
1953-05-25	Player	Call at 1B
1954-06-18	Player	Called third strike
1955-05-07	Player	Bench jockeying
1956-08-23	Player	Call at 2B

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Earl TorgesonWWikipedia↗

Batting

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Ejections (8)