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Bats: L · Throws: L · Born 1899-02-07 · Played 1923–1939 · Career WAR 37.1 (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	DET	AL	8	11	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	.364	.417	.364	.781	0.2
1924	DET	AL	37	89	11	19	1	1	0	7	0	0	9	18	.213	.286	.247	.533	0.1
1925	DET	AL	36	87	7	19	1	0	0	7	1	0	8	11	.218	.284	.230	.514	0.1
1926	DET	AL	36	91	6	23	1	3	0	10	0	0	6	24	.253	.299	.330	.629	0.4
1927	DET	AL	41	78	4	16	2	1	0	3	0	0	5	9	.205	.262	.256	.518	0.1
1928	DET	AL	31	67	4	13	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	11	.194	.250	.194	.444	0.0
1929	DET	AL	38	90	10	23	2	0	3	11	0	0	6	17	.256	.302	.378	.680	0.7
1930	DET	AL	34	83	3	16	1	0	0	7	0	0	3	14	.193	.221	.205	.426	-0.3
1931	DET	AL	34	97	7	15	0	1	0	5	0	0	3	10	.155	.180	.175	.355	-0.5
1932	DET	AL	33	90	9	22	4	0	0	7	0	0	4	19	.244	.277	.289	.566	0.1
1933	WS1	AL	40	108	7	24	2	1	0	11	0	0	6	14	.222	.263	.259	.522	0.2
1934	WS1	AL	35	85	12	17	2	0	1	8	0	0	11	17	.200	.292	.259	.551	0.2
1935	WS1	AL	34	104	10	19	4	0	0	3	0	0	8	11	.183	.241	.221	.462	-0.1
1936	WS1	AL	28	77	8	13	2	0	0	4	0	0	8	11	.169	.247	.195	.442	-0.2
1937	CLE	AL	33	49	6	11	1	0	0	6	1	0	5	7	.224	.296	.245	.541	0.2
1938	CLE	AL	26	56	0	7	0	0	0	6	0	0	7	13	.125	.222	.125	.347	-0.2
1939	CHN	NL	24	29	1	3	0	0	0	0	0		2	7	.103	.161	.103	.264	-0.2
Total			548	1291	107	264	23	7	4	98	3	0	97	216	.204	.260	.242	.503	0.8

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1923	DET	AL	2	0	8	3	1	0	0	33.0	22	10	2	15	19	2.73	1.121	0.7
1924	DET	AL	17	9	35	32	16	2	0	233.0	260	100	8	79	65	3.86	1.455	2.0
1925	DET	AL	11	11	35	33	15	1	2	239.1	267	124	13	88	83	4.66	1.483	2.2
1926	DET	AL	16	13	36	34	13	0	0	252.1	271	112	7	79	109	3.99	1.387	3.0
1927	DET	AL	16	14	41	31	17	3	3	236.0	238	88	4	105	95	3.36	1.453	4.9
1928	DET	AL	11	16	31	30	12	1	0	196.1	214	94	8	78	93	4.31	1.487	-0.2
1929	DET	AL	14	15	38	28	18	1	1	245.1	267	126	16	96	103	4.62	1.480	2.7
1930	DET	AL	17	13	34	31	16	0	1	220.2	248	104	8	80	109	4.24	1.486	2.3
1931	DET	AL	13	16	34	34	22	0	0	271.1	287	123	22	118	81	4.08	1.493	4.3
1932	DET	AL	16	12	33	31	17	3	0	244.0	255	123	17	93	81	4.54	1.426	3.2
1933	WS1	AL	22	8	39	37	19	2	1	270.0	271	100	9	100	96	3.33	1.374	4.7
1934	WS1	AL	14	11	32	31	15	0	0	235.0	269	118	10	94	96	4.52	1.545	2.4
1935	WS1	AL	14	13	34	34	19	1	0	279.1	318	133	16	104	102	4.29	1.511	3.4
1936	WS1	AL	14	11	28	28	14	0	0	212.1	252	115	17	89	63	4.87	1.606	2.0
1937	CLE	AL	8	8	33	22	6	1	2	147.0	189	106	9	80	53	6.49	1.830	-1.0
1938	CLE	AL	9	8	26	23	4	0	0	160.1	187	99	18	83	60	5.56	1.684	0.1
1939	CHN	NL	4	7	24	11	2	1	1	89.1	102	51	8	50	42	5.14	1.701	-0.4
Total			218	185	541	473	226	16	11	3564.2	3917	1726	192	1431	1350	4.36	1.500	36.3

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	PO	A	E	DP
1923	DET	AL	P	8	1	7	2	0
1924	DET	AL	P	35	14	53	4	3
1925	DET	AL	P	35	13	52	5	2
1926	DET	AL	P	36	12	54	2	2
1927	DET	AL	P	41	5	47	7	3
1928	DET	AL	P	31	17	40	1	3
1929	DET	AL	P	38	15	49	4	0
1930	DET	AL	P	34	8	32	1	1
1931	DET	AL	P	34	20	62	2	5
1932	DET	AL	P	33	9	44	2	1
1933	WS1	AL	OF	1	0	0	0	0
1933	WS1	AL	P	39	8	51	7	2
1934	WS1	AL	P	32	2	47	1	2
1935	WS1	AL	P	34	13	60	3	4
1936	WS1	AL	P	28	10	35	2	0
1937	CLE	AL	P	33	9	33	2	0
1938	CLE	AL	P	26	9	21	2	3
1939	CHN	NL	P	24	1	14	0	0
Total				542	166	701	47	31

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1933	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL
1933	Baseball Magazine All-Star	ML

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1956	BBWAA	1	145	No
1958	BBWAA	2	200	No
1960	BBWAA	3	202	No
1962	BBWAA	6	120	No

Ejections (5)

Date	As	Reason
1928-08-31	Player	Call at HP (Pushed umpire)
1933-04-25	Player	Fighting
1935-08-31	Player	Call at HP
1941-08-14	Coach	Call at HP
1943-05-27	Coach	Call at 1B