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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
1978	LAN	NL	23		29	3	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.172	.172	.207	.379	0.3
1979	LAN	NL	25		19	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	6	.158	.200	.158	.358	0.0
1980	LAN	NL	34		70	1	17	3	0	0	3	0	0	1	13	.243	.254	.286	.540	0.4
1981	LAN	NL	23		45	3	10	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	16	.222	.239	.267	.506	0.3
1982	LAN	NL	38		85	5	12	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	32	.141	.167	.153	.320	-0.2
1983	LAN	NL	31		73	2	7	1	0	1	2	0	1	1	22	.096	.120	.151	.271	-0.3
1984	LAN	NL	32		51	0	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	15	.078	.113	.078	.191	-0.4
1985	LAN	NL	25		50	4	9	1	0	0	4	0	0	3	13	.180	.226	.200	.426	0.1
1986	LAN	NL	35		76	2	8	0	0	1	4	0	0	4	23	.105	.160	.145	.305	-0.1
1987	LAN	NL	38		83	5	13	0	0	0	5	0	0	7	24	.157	.222	.157	.379	0.3
1988	OAK	AL	36		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1989	OAK	AL	33		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1990	OAK	AL	35		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1991	OAK	AL	36		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0
1992	OAK	AL	20		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1993	OAK	AL	30		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1994	OAK	AL	26		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0
Total			520		582	26	88	7	1	2	30	0	1	22	171	.151	.182	.177	.359	0.4

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1978	LAN	NL	7	4	23	13	4	3	3	111.1	92	25	6	26	66	2.02	1.060	3.4
1979	LAN	NL	5	6	25	12	1	0	5	81.1	82	36	7	32	64	3.98	1.402	0.2
1980	LAN	NL	14	9	32	32	3	2	0	213.2	190	78	15	79	141	3.29	1.259	2.6
1981	LAN	NL	9	5	23	23	2	1	0	141.1	141	54	11	41	88	3.44	1.288	1.6
1982	LAN	NL	16	11	36	36	9	3	0	235.2	199	88	19	81	176	3.36	1.188	3.2
1983	LAN	NL	15	12	31	31	4	3	0	204.0	164	60	13	72	156	2.65	1.157	4.6
1984	LAN	NL	13	13	31	29	3	1	0	178.2	191	75	11	58	126	3.78	1.394	1.6
1985	LAN	NL	14	4	23	23	8	3	0	167.1	141	43	16	35	96	2.31	1.052	4.3
1986	LAN	NL	7	13	33	33	7	3	0	235.2	227	86	14	55	183	3.28	1.197	4.0
1987	LAN	NL	15	9	35	35	6	4	0	251.2	204	90	21	86	196	3.22	1.152	7.1
1988	OAK	AL	17	9	36	36	4	2	0	244.2	237	99	22	81	158	3.64	1.300	2.9
1989	OAK	AL	17	8	33	33	1	0	0	209.2	191	70	13	78	137	3.00	1.283	3.4
1990	OAK	AL	27	6	35	35	2	2	0	238.0	214	78	26	77	127	2.95	1.223	2.9
1991	OAK	AL	12	13	35	35	7	1	0	220.0	220	112	25	91	101	4.58	1.414	-0.3
1992	OAK	AL	11	7	20	20	0	0	0	123.2	114	45	13	43	47	3.27	1.270	2.5
1993	OAK	AL	9	11	30	28	0	0	0	166.2	208	98	25	56	63	5.29	1.584	0.6
1994	OAK	AL	3	6	25	8	0	0	0	68.2	79	54	10	43	44	7.08	1.777	-1.2
Total			211	146	506	462	61	28	8	3092.0	2894	1191	267	1034	1969	3.47	1.270	43.4

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1978	LAN	NL	P	23	13	111.1	6	12	1	0
1979	LAN	NL	P	25	12	81.1	2	8	3	3
1980	LAN	NL	P	32	32	213.2	15	26	1	3
1981	LAN	NL	P	23	23	141.1	4	18	0	1
1982	LAN	NL	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
1982	LAN	NL	P	36	36	235.2	19	26	2	0
1983	LAN	NL	P	31	31	204.0	14	27	3	1
1984	LAN	NL	P	31	29	178.2	20	28	2	5
1985	LAN	NL	P	23	23	167.1	15	27	3	1
1986	LAN	NL	P	33	33	235.2	21	26	2	2
1987	LAN	NL	P	35	35	251.2	25	38	0	3
1988	OAK	AL	P	36	36	244.2	16	32	1	2
1989	OAK	AL	P	33	33	209.2	26	21	4	3
1990	OAK	AL	P	35	35	238.0	20	31	0	2
1991	OAK	AL	P	35	35	220.0	15	29	2	1
1992	OAK	AL	P	20	20	123.2	5	13	1	1
1993	OAK	AL	P	30	28	166.2	16	26	0	2
1994	OAK	AL	P	25	8	68.2	4	6	1	0
Total				507	462	3093.0	243	394	26	30

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1980	Player of the Week	NL
1989	Player of the Week	AL
1990	TSN All-Star	AL
1990	TSN Pitcher of the Year	AL
1990	Cy Young Award	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
2000	BBWAA	1	375	No

Ejections (8)

Date	As	Reason
1984-06-13	Player	Balk
1986-07-27	Player	Call at HP (from bench)
1987-09-12	Player	Balls and strikes
1990-06-19	Player	Bench jockeying
1991-07-12	Player	Call at 1B
1992-09-27	Player	Bench jockeying
1993-09-01	Player	Call at 3B (from bench)
2001-04-27	Coach	Balls and strikes