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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1976	KCA	AL	27		42	5	12	1	0	0	5	0	2	2	5	.286	.333	.310	.643	0.1
1977	KCA	AL	55		119	18	39	5	3	2	21	2	0	5	8	.328	.346	.471	.817	1.0
1978	KCA	AL	67		190	19	57	10	1	2	28	2	1	3	12	.300	.320	.395	.715	1.2
1979	KCA	AL	90		199	26	41	7	3	2	28	2	1	7	24	.206	.227	.302	.529	-1.3
1980	KCA	AL	126		453	57	138	14	7	6	58	17	3	50	42	.305	.377	.406	.783	2.7
1981	KCA	AL	89		301	24	76	9	3	1	19	11	6	19	23	.252	.298	.312	.610	-0.4
1982	KCA	AL	121		448	79	121	11	3	3	51	36	9	48	46	.270	.343	.328	.671	2.1
1983	KCA	AL	128		437	49	107	18	3	2	32	28	7	27	56	.245	.289	.314	.603	-0.2
1984	KCA	AL	97		171	17	31	7	1	2	10	6	6	21	34	.181	.271	.269	.540	-0.9
1985	KCA	AL	60		145	11	34	8	1	1	9	1	1	17	15	.234	.319	.324	.643	0.7
Total			860		2505	305	656	90	25	21	261	105	36	199	265	.262	.316	.343	.659	5.0

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1976	KCA	AL	1B	3	1	11.0	6	0	0	0
1976	KCA	AL	C	23	8	101.0	57	4	1	1
1977	KCA	AL	1B	5	4	26.0	26	0	1	2
1977	KCA	AL	C	35	19	205.0	130	9	1	0
1978	KCA	AL	1B	47	31	296.1	307	22	0	20
1978	KCA	AL	C	21	16	146.1	78	6	2	0
1979	KCA	AL	1B	49	25	250.0	264	19	2	30
1979	KCA	AL	C	23	18	164.1	70	5	1	0
1979	KCA	AL	OF	3	0	8.0	2	0	0	0
1980	KCA	AL	1B	12	11	102.1	112	7	1	14
1980	KCA	AL	C	77	72	651.0	306	25	6	5
1980	KCA	AL	OF	35	31	278.0	54	1	1	0
1981	KCA	AL	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0
1981	KCA	AL	C	73	68	615.1	300	26	7	1
1981	KCA	AL	OF	16	13	115.0	15	2	0	0
1982	KCA	AL	1B	3	2	18.2	19	2	0	2
1982	KCA	AL	C	120	116	991.1	463	38	10	3
1983	KCA	AL	1B	37	27	238.0	244	26	3	24
1983	KCA	AL	C	92	89	786.2	360	32	6	5
1983	KCA	AL	OF	9	3	33.0	11	0	0	0
1984	KCA	AL	1B	33	1	77.1	91	10	0	8
1984	KCA	AL	C	59	49	421.0	213	21	6	2
1984	KCA	AL	OF	1	1	4.0	0	0	0	0
1985	KCA	AL	1B	6	1	14.0	12	1	0	0
1985	KCA	AL	C	49	40	371.2	247	28	4	6
Total				832	646	5926.1	3388	284	52	123

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1991	BBWAA	0	333	No

Ejections (10)

Date	As	Reason
1981-05-30	Player	Balls and strikes
1988-04-20	Manager	Call at 3B
1988-07-17	Manager	Balls and strikes
1988-09-11	Manager	Obstruction call
1989-05-03	Manager	Catch/drop
1990-05-31	Manager	Balls and strikes
1992-06-03	Manager	Called third strike
1992-06-07	Manager	Throwing at batters after warning
1992-08-09	Manager	Call at 2B
1993-05-15	Coach	Called third strike