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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1933-08-10 · Played 1955–1968 · Career WAR 44.8 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=colavro01, LAHMAN=colavro01, MLBAM=112455, RETROSHEET=colar101

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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
1955	CLE	AL	5	9	3	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.444	.444	.667	1.111	0.4
1956	CLE	AL	101	322	55	89	11	4	21	65	0	1	49	46	.276	.372	.531	.903	2.4
1957	CLE	AL	134	461	66	116	26	0	25	84	1	6	71	80	.252	.348	.471	.819	3.6
1958	CLE	AL	143	489	80	148	26	3	41	113	0	2	84	89	.303	.405	.620	1.025	5.8
1959	CLE	AL	154	588	90	151	24	0	42	111	3	3	71	86	.257	.337	.512	.849	5.3
1960	DET	AL	145	555	67	138	18	1	35	87	3	6	53	80	.249	.317	.474	.791	1.1
1961	DET	AL	163	583	129	169	30	2	45	140	1	2	113	75	.290	.402	.580	.982	7.6
1962	DET	AL	161	601	90	164	30	2	37	112	2	0	96	68	.273	.371	.514	.885	5.7
1963	DET	AL	160	597	91	162	29	2	22	91	0	0	84	78	.271	.358	.437	.795	2.9
1964	KC1	AL	160	588	89	161	31	2	34	102	3	1	83	56	.274	.366	.507	.873	4.1
1965	CLE	AL	162	592	92	170	25	2	26	108	1	1	93	63	.287	.383	.468	.851	3.2
1966	CLE	AL	151	533	68	127	13	0	30	72	2	1	76	81	.238	.336	.432	.768	2.0
1967	CLE	AL	63	191	10	46	9	0	5	21	2	2	24	31	.241	.329	.366	.695	0.3
1967	CHA	AL	60	190	20	42	4	1	3	29	1	1	25	10	.221	.306	.300	.606
1968	LAN	NL	40	113	8	23	3	0	3	11	0	1	15	18	.204	.295	.310	.605	0.1
1968	NYA	AL	39	91	13	20	2	2	5	13	0	0	14	17	.220	.330	.451	.781
Total			1841	6503	971	1730	283	21	374	1159	19	27	951	880	.266	.360	.489	.848	44.5

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	G	IP	H	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1958	CLE	AL	0	1	3.0	0	3	1	0.00	1.000	0.2
1968	NYA	AL	1	1	2.2	1	2	1	0.00	1.125	0.1
Total			1	2	5.2	1	5	2	0.00	1.059	0.3

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1955	CLE	AL	OF	2	0	17.0	7	1	0	1
1956	CLE	AL	OF	98	88	815.1	177	6	6	0
1957	CLE	AL	OF	130	125	1126.2	268	12	11	2
1958	CLE	AL	1B	11	9	78.0	84	0	4	5
1958	CLE	AL	OF	129	127	1134.0	243	14	5	6
1958	CLE	AL	P	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0
1959	CLE	AL	OF	154	154	1381.2	319	7	5	1
1960	DET	AL	OF	144	143	1300.0	271	11	7	5
1961	DET	AL	OF	161	161	1425.0	329	16	9	4
1962	DET	AL	OF	161	161	1434.2	359	10	3	1
1963	DET	AL	OF	159	159	1429.1	319	10	4	0
1964	KC1	AL	OF	159	159	1411.2	275	10	8	1
1965	CLE	AL	OF	162	162	1428.1	265	9	0	1
1966	CLE	AL	OF	146	145	1277.0	261	10	5	0
1967	CLE	AL	OF	50	50	417.0	75	2	3	1
1967	CHA	AL	OF	58	55	461.2	83	2	2	2
1968	LAN	NL	OF	33	32	264.0	45	2	0	1
1968	NYA	AL	OF	28	23	211.1	27	1	2	0
1968	NYA	AL	P	1	0	2.2	0	0	0	0
Total				1787	1753	15618.1	3407	124	74	31

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1961	TSN All-Star	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1974	BBWAA	2	274	No
1975	BBWAA	1	272	No
2003	Veterans - Players	7	61	No
2005	Veterans - Players	4	60	No
2007	Veterans - Players	5	62	No
2009	Veterans - 1943 and Later			No

Ejections (15)

Date	As	Reason
1960-06-15	Player	Called third strike
1961-05-12	Player	Jumping into seats to protect his dad
1961-05-23	Player	Called third strike
1961-09-25	Player	Call at 1B
1962-04-22	Player	Call at 2B
1962-08-03	Player	Called third strike (Threw bat)
1964-09-14	Player	Call at 2B
1965-08-18	Player	Called third strike
1965-09-20	Player	Call at 1B
1968-05-02	Player	Call at 2B
1968-06-09	Player	Call strike 3
1976-04-25	Coach	Balls and strikes (Bumped umpire)
1976-06-06	Coach	Arguing manager's ejection (Bumped umpire)
1978-08-10	Coach	Balls and strikes
1983-07-24	Coach	Pine Tar call