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Bats: B · Throws: R · Born 1876-10-13 · Played 1898–1918 · Career WAR 45.1 (bWAR) ·

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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
1898	WAS	NL	39		103	11	17	2	2	2	8	2		4	28	.165	.211	.282	.493	-0.7
1899	BRO	NL	5		13	2	3	1	0	0	0	0		0	2	.231	.231	.308	.539	0.0
1900	BRO	NL	5		13	0	0	0	0	0	2	0		0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.3
1901	BRO	NL	46		135	16	23	3	0	2	13	1		8	27	.170	.217	.237	.454	-0.3
1902	BRO	NL	48		161	16	28	3	2	1	16	7		9	26	.174	.227	.236	.463	0.1
1903	DET	AL	40		124	11	30	3	2	0	12	3		4	34	.242	.266	.298	.564	0.5
1904	DET	AL	46		140	12	38	2	1	1	6	2		3	41	.271	.287	.321	.608	0.5
1905	DET	AL	44		130	16	25	4	0	0	5	8		12	28	.192	.266	.223	.489	0.4
1906	DET	AL	28		91	5	11	0	1	0	2	6		1	32	.121	.130	.143	.273	-0.7
1907	DET	AL	37		109	20	29	7	2	0	19	4		6	34	.266	.304	.367	.671	0.9
1908	DET	AL	30		82	5	13	1	0	0	2	2		10	26	.159	.250	.171	.421	0.0
1909	DET	AL	22		45	6	9	0	0	0	1	0		2	9	.200	.250	.200	.450	0.1
1910	DET	AL	26		69	6	10	1	0	0	2	0		5	24	.145	.203	.159	.362	-0.3
1911	DET	AL	24		60	11	12	3	1	1	6	1		11		.200	.324	.333	.657	0.4
1912	DET	AL	6		13	3	1	0	0	0	0	0		1		.077	.143	.077	.220	-0.1
1915	NYA	AL	10		12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0		1	6	.083	.154	.083	.237	-0.1
1916	NYA	AL	1		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0
1918	DET	AL	2		2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0		0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	0.0
Total			459		1302	142	251	30	11	7	95	36	0	77	321	.193	.238	.249	.487	0.4

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1898	WAS	NL	1	6	17	7	6	0	0	88.0	88	42	0	69	36	4.30	1.784	-0.9
1899	BRO	NL	1	2	5	2	2	0	1	25.0	35	12	0	13	11	4.32	1.920	-0.4
1900	BRO	NL	1	2	5	4	2	0	0	31.0	36	23	0	18	13	6.68	1.742	0.0
1901	BRO	NL	25	15	45	38	36	2	3	351.0	324	108	1	152	226	2.77	1.356	6.6
1902	BRO	NL	17	15	35	33	30	4	1	297.2	250	92	1	111	170	2.78	1.213	3.3
1903	DET	AL	17	16	35	34	34	4	0	307.0	247	78	3	95	187	2.29	1.114	7.5
1904	DET	AL	16	16	34	34	30	3	0	293.0	251	80	5	94	137	2.46	1.177	3.5
1905	DET	AL	18	15	34	32	27	5	0	280.2	236	81	2	101	135	2.60	1.201	4.6
1906	DET	AL	9	15	25	25	22	0	0	211.2	221	74	4	72	85	3.15	1.384	2.9
1907	DET	AL	25	4	32	28	27	3	1	271.0	222	66	3	82	123	2.19	1.122	5.0
1908	DET	AL	18	7	29	28	25	6	0	242.2	210	56	2	53	141	2.08	1.084	4.4
1909	DET	AL	8	7	21	17	13	4	2	140.1	121	36	0	60	76	2.31	1.290	1.6
1910	DET	AL	17	7	26	23	20	3	0	206.2	184	56	4	61	107	2.44	1.185	3.6
1911	DET	AL	10	9	20	19	15	1	0	168.1	160	62	4	64	81	3.31	1.331	2.5
1912	DET	AL	1	0	3	1	0	0	0	10.0	5	1	0	2	6	0.90	.700	0.3
1915	NYA	AL	0	3	9	1	0	0	0	33.2	35	18	1	10	17	4.81	1.337	0.0
1916	NYA	AL	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	0.00	2.000	0.0
1918	DET	AL	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	6.0	5	1	0	1	1	1.50	1.000	0.2
Total			185	139	378	327	289	35	8	2964.2	2631	886	30	1059	1552	2.69	1.245	44.7

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1898	WAS	NL	2B	1		2.0	0	0	0	0
1898	WAS	NL	OF	20		158.0	38	4	3	3
1898	WAS	NL	P	17		88.0	6	17	3	2
1898	WAS	NL	SS	1		5.0	1	1	2	1
1899	BRO	NL	P	5		25.0	1	5	1	0
1900	BRO	NL	P	5		31.0	0	12	0	0
1901	BRO	NL	P	45		351.0	14	75	7	5
1902	BRO	NL	1B	8		79.0	87	7	1	3
1902	BRO	NL	2B	1		8.0	2	3	0	0
1902	BRO	NL	OF	4		39.0	8	0	1	0
1902	BRO	NL	P	35		298.0	20	71	5	2
1903	DET	AL	2B	1		2.0	0	1	0	0
1903	DET	AL	OF	1		13.0	1	2	0	0
1903	DET	AL	P	35		307.0	25	65	6	2
1903	DET	AL	SS	2		8.0	0	3	2	1
1904	DET	AL	1B	8	7	44.0	52	0	1	1
1904	DET	AL	OF	1	1	10.0	0	0	2	0
1904	DET	AL	P	34	34	293.0	28	89	4	2
1905	DET	AL	2B	2	1	8.0	2	2	1	0
1905	DET	AL	OF	8	7	55.0	10	4	0	0
1905	DET	AL	P	34	32	281.0	16	67	6	3
1906	DET	AL	2B	3	3	28.0	5	3	1	0
1906	DET	AL	OF	1	1	9.0	1	0	1	0
1906	DET	AL	P	25	25	212.0	11	62	3	1
1907	DET	AL	P	32	28	271.0	13	56	4	0
1908	DET	AL	P	29	28	243.0	16	39	5	0
1909	DET	AL	P	21	17	140.0	9	29	1	1
1910	DET	AL	P	26	23	207.0	9	33	2	2
1911	DET	AL	P	20			4	25	2	0
1912	DET	AL	1B	2			5	0	1	0
1912	DET	AL	OF	2			0	0	0	0
1912	DET	AL	P	3			0	1	0	0
1915	NYA	AL	P	9			1	7	0	0
1916	NYA	AL	P	1			0	0	0	0
1918	DET	AL	P	2			0	1	0	0
Total				444	207	3215.0	385	684	65	29

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1908	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1937	BBWAA	3	151	No
1938	BBWAA	1	197	No
1939	BBWAA	2	206	No
1945	BBWAA	3	186	No
1946	Nominating Vote	4		No

Ejections (8)

Date	As	Reason
1909-10-12	Player	Bench jockeying
1916-06-12	Manager	Call at 2B
1916-07-15	Manager	Balls and strikes
1916-07-30	Manager	Call at 1B
1917-06-04	Manager	Fair/foul call
1917-07-04	Manager	Call at HP
1917-08-03	Manager	Called third strike
1918-06-26	Player	Balls and strikes