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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1951-11-25 · Played 1973–1984 · College: Miami-Dade College, North Campus (1970) · Career WAR 17.5 (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
1973	CHA	AL	40	117	17	29	2	0	0	10	2	3	10	18	.248	.308	.265	.573	0.2
1974	CHA	AL	154	496	55	136	15	3	5	45	3	4	28	48	.274	.316	.347	.663	2.1
1975	CHA	AL	157	602	52	159	29	4	3	58	2	4	36	48	.264	.301	.341	.642	1.6
1976	CHA	AL	158	562	44	138	18	4	2	52	3	5	43	45	.246	.300	.302	.602	0.4
1977	NYA	AL	158	477	54	118	18	4	8	49	1	1	39	28	.247	.300	.352	.652	2.7
1978	NYA	AL	123	379	40	92	11	1	5	40	3	1	23	24	.243	.286	.317	.603	2.7
1979	NYA	AL	141	431	47	99	14	2	2	32	0	0	37	30	.230	.287	.285	.572	2.4
1980	NYA	AL	141	489	57	128	26	2	5	52	0	3	48	37	.262	.327	.354	.681	4.0
1981	NYA	AL	73	227	20	54	11	0	7	27	0	1	19	17	.238	.300	.379	.679	1.7
1982	NYA	AL	59	160	11	27	1	1	0	9	0	0	8	11	.169	.207	.188	.395	-0.6
1982	TEX	AL	46	146	16	32	9	0	1	14	0	0	13	10	.219	.280	.301	.581
1983	TEX	AL	131	417	36	99	15	2	2	34	3	7	23	31	.237	.278	.297	.575	0.3
1984	KCA	AL	11	9	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.333	.400	.333	.733	0.0
Total			1392	4512	451	1114	169	23	40	423	17	29	328	349	.247	.298	.321	.619	17.5

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1973	CHA	AL	2B	3	0	8.2	4	2	0	1
1973	CHA	AL	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
1973	CHA	AL	SS	36	35	295.1	51	132	7	22
1974	CHA	AL	SS	154	153	1325.0	251	499	22	108
1975	CHA	AL	SS	157	157	1408.1	279	543	16	105
1976	CHA	AL	SS	158	154	1373.0	279	468	18	96
1977	NYA	AL	SS	158	153	1318.2	250	434	18	90
1978	NYA	AL	SS	123	120	1010.2	178	341	10	57
1979	NYA	AL	SS	141	136	1187.2	219	512	17	107
1980	NYA	AL	SS	141	141	1249.1	224	489	13	77
1981	NYA	AL	SS	73	73	632.0	104	217	10	49
1982	NYA	AL	SS	58	50	444.0	74	177	10	27
1982	TEX	AL	SS	45	44	387.0	55	146	4	30
1983	TEX	AL	SS	129	125	1100.2	150	369	11	71
1984	KCA	AL	3B	2	1	10.0	2	1	0	0
1984	KCA	AL	SS	9	2	27.0	2	5	0	0
Total				1388	1344	11779.1	2122	4335	156	840

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1975	Player of the Week	AL
1978	Babe Ruth Award	AL
1978	World Series MVP	ML

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1990	BBWAA	3	333	No

Ejections (2)

Date	As	Reason
1983-07-29	Player	Balls and strikes
1989-09-21	Manager	Intentional HBP

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