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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1904-09-30 · Played 1932–1944 · Career WAR 26.4 (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
1932	NYA	AL	33	73	5	9	2	1	1	5	0	0	4	22	.123	.169	.219	.388	-0.3
1933	NYA	AL	25	72	7	13	1	1	0	3	0	0	4	16	.181	.224	.222	.446	-0.1
1934	NYA	AL	13	26	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	6	.192	.300	.192	.492	0.1
1935	NYA	AL	23	67	12	15	1	0	1	12	0	0	3	13	.224	.257	.284	.541	0.2
1936	CLE	AL	37	87	12	14	0	0	0	10	0	0	6	18	.161	.215	.161	.376	-0.3
1937	CLE	AL	24	67	5	6	0	0	0	6	0	0	1	15	.090	.103	.090	.193	-0.8
1938	CLE	AL	30	79	12	20	2	1	1	14	1	0	3	14	.253	.280	.342	.622	0.4
1939	CLE	AL	34	71	10	16	2	0	0	3	0	0	3	11	.225	.257	.254	.511	0.0
1940	CLE	AL	32	48	3	10	3	0	0	3	0	0	1	9	.208	.224	.271	.495	0.0
1941	SLA	AL	20	22	6	3	0	0	1	4	0	0	1	3	.136	.174	.273	.447	-0.3
1941	BRO	NL	11	20	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	5	.050	.050	.050	.100
1942	BRO	NL	27	39	3	7	0	0	0	2	0		1	11	.179	.200	.179	.379	0.0
1943	BRO	NL	17	7	2	3	1	0	0	1	0		2	0	.429	.556	.571	1.127	0.0
1943	NY1	NL	15	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
1944	NY1	NL	24	24	2	2	0	0	0	0	0		0	9	.083	.083	.083	.166	-0.3
Total			365	716	82	124	12	3	4	64	1	0	33	155	.173	.210	.215	.425	-1.4

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1932	NYA	AL	17	4	33	21	13	3	4	192.0	162	79	10	76	109	3.70	1.240	3.4
1933	NYA	AL	15	7	25	24	10	1	1	184.2	171	90	9	87	119	4.39	1.397	1.3
1934	NYA	AL	5	2	13	10	4	0	0	71.2	62	23	3	32	54	2.89	1.312	1.2
1935	NYA	AL	13	6	23	23	12	2	0	167.0	149	67	11	58	113	3.61	1.240	2.2
1936	CLE	AL	20	10	36	31	19	4	1	243.0	234	93	5	97	165	3.44	1.362	7.2
1937	CLE	AL	15	1	24	20	14	0	0	173.0	157	49	4	60	87	2.55	1.254	6.2
1938	CLE	AL	14	8	30	27	13	0	0	200.0	189	93	15	81	112	4.19	1.350	2.7
1939	CLE	AL	9	7	28	26	9	2	0	175.0	199	89	9	56	79	4.58	1.457	1.4
1940	CLE	AL	9	8	32	17	5	3	5	138.2	126	53	3	48	62	3.44	1.255	2.0
1941	SLA	AL	2	5	20	9	2	0	1	67.0	89	49	4	29	27	6.58	1.761	0.3
1941	BRO	NL	3	0	11	4	1	0	0	57.1	38	16	6	12	21	2.51	.872
1942	BRO	NL	10	6	27	15	5	1	3	118.0	106	42	11	39	50	3.20	1.229	-0.3
1943	BRO	NL	5	1	17	1	0	0	1	38.0	42	18	3	25	15	4.26	1.763	0.5
1943	NY1	NL	1	3	15	0	0	0	2	41.0	37	14	4	14	24	3.07	1.244
1944	NY1	NL	4	7	18	13	2	1	0	84.0	88	38	7	24	33	4.07	1.333	-0.3
Total			142	75	352	241	109	17	18	1950.1	1849	813	104	738	1070	3.75	1.326	27.8

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	PO	A	E	DP
1932	NYA	AL	P	33	8	31	5	2
1933	NYA	AL	P	25	10	29	1	0
1934	NYA	AL	P	13	1	12	0	2
1935	NYA	AL	P	23	9	33	1	1
1936	CLE	AL	P	36	9	50	2	1
1937	CLE	AL	P	24	7	37	1	1
1938	CLE	AL	P	30	14	43	2	3
1939	CLE	AL	P	28	17	36	5	7
1940	CLE	AL	P	32	8	21	0	2
1941	SLA	AL	P	20	3	12	2	1
1941	BRO	NL	P	11	2	11	0	1
1942	BRO	NL	P	27	3	25	0	3
1943	BRO	NL	P	17	7	5	2	0
1943	NY1	NL	P	15	0	13	0	0
1944	NY1	NL	P	18	6	8	0	0
Total				352	104	366	21	24

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1936	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL
1937	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL
1937	TSN Major League Player of the Year	ML
1938	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1955	BBWAA	1	189	No
2003	Veterans - Players			No

Ejections (13)

Date	As	Reason
1932-06-03	Player	Balls and strikes
1933-06-08	Player	Call at 1B
1933-07-01	Player	Balls and strikes
1934-07-03	Player	Bench jockeying
1935-05-20	Player	Balk call
1935-08-16	Player	Balls and strikes (Threw glove)
1936-06-07	Player	Bench jockeying
1938-04-28	Player	Balls and strikes
1938-06-06	Player	Call at 3B
1939-08-04	Player	Balls and strikes (from bench)
1943-05-27	Player	Balk call
1943-09-04	Player	Checked swing
1944-06-28	Player	Interference non-call (Threw resin bag)