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Bats: R · Throws: L · Born 1907-11-01 · Played 1929–1942 · Career WAR 45.5 (bWAR) ·

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1929	PIT	NL	30	42	4	8	1	0	0	8	1	2	12	.190	.227	.214	.441	-0.1
1930	PIT	NL	42	91	11	22	3	1	0	13	0	3	17	.242	.266	.297	.563	0.0
1931	PIT	NL	39	95	8	17	1	0	0	2	1	5	15	.179	.228	.189	.417	-0.2
1932	PIT	NL	47	92	7	19	3	1	0	4	1	1	16	.207	.215	.261	.476	0.0
1933	PIT	NL	47	101	7	15	0	2	0	8	0	5	17	.149	.189	.188	.377	-0.1
1934	PIT	NL	49	84	8	16	3	0	0	6	0	4	16	.190	.227	.226	.453	-0.1
1935	CHN	NL	42	85	4	12	1	0	0	5	0	1	14	.141	.161	.153	.314	-0.4
1936	CHN	NL	43	85	5	18	2	0	0	5	0	4	12	.212	.247	.235	.482	0.3
1937	CHN	NL	42	71	1	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	12	.127	.127	.141	.268	-0.5
1938	CHN	NL	43	62	7	13	3	1	0	7	0	5	9	.210	.269	.290	.559	0.4
1939	CHN	NL	36	73	6	14	2	0	1	7	0	4	26	.192	.244	.260	.504	0.1
1940	CHN	NL	40	85	5	14	3	0	0	9	0	7	20	.165	.237	.200	.437	0.2
1941	CHN	NL	26	47	5	9	0	0	0	3	0	4	15	.191	.255	.191	.446	0.1
1941	BRO	NL	6	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	.250	.250	.500	.750
1942	BRO	NL	38	40	5	12	3	0	0	6	0	3	8	.300	.349	.375	.724	0.7
Total			570	1057	83	199	27	5	1	84	3	48	210	.188	.224	.226	.450	0.4

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1929	PIT	NL	7	5	30	13	6	0	1	123.0	130	67	10	62	49	4.90	1.561	0.7
1930	PIT	NL	17	18	42	35	21	3	1	274.2	325	133	20	89	90	4.36	1.507	3.4
1931	PIT	NL	15	13	39	33	20	1	1	275.2	301	100	9	70	73	3.26	1.346	3.5
1932	PIT	NL	18	16	47	33	19	3	4	274.1	301	92	17	62	72	3.02	1.323	3.1
1933	PIT	NL	18	13	47	35	21	5	1	291.1	290	88	9	55	88	2.72	1.184	4.8
1934	PIT	NL	12	18	49	35	16	3	1	263.2	299	105	8	59	103	3.58	1.358	3.5
1935	CHN	NL	17	10	42	30	16	4	2	246.1	279	81	10	44	90	2.96	1.311	3.9
1936	CHN	NL	18	9	43	28	16	4	3	252.1	262	95	16	54	104	3.39	1.252	4.9
1937	CHN	NL	16	10	42	28	11	4	0	208.0	229	92	17	65	100	3.98	1.413	1.9
1938	CHN	NL	10	19	43	27	10	3	0	201.1	210	85	17	62	83	3.80	1.351	2.3
1939	CHN	NL	15	8	36	21	10	2	1	194.0	205	71	7	50	98	3.29	1.314	4.7
1940	CHN	NL	14	14	40	33	18	3	2	246.0	240	90	12	64	107	3.29	1.236	4.9
1941	CHN	NL	5	14	26	18	6	1	0	138.0	161	71	10	43	60	4.63	1.478	-0.6
1941	BRO	NL	0	0	6	1	0	0	0	15.2	16	6	1	4	8	3.45	1.277
1942	BRO	NL	15	4	38	14	8	4	0	147.2	127	30	1	36	62	1.83	1.104	4.1
Total			197	171	570	384	198	40	17	3152.0	3375	1206	164	819	1187	3.44	1.331	45.1

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	PO	A	E	DP
1929	PIT	NL	P	30	3	35	2	1
1930	PIT	NL	P	42	5	53	3	3
1931	PIT	NL	P	39	7	56	3	6
1932	PIT	NL	P	47	8	45	7	3
1933	PIT	NL	P	47	12	45	3	4
1934	PIT	NL	P	49	10	40	3	4
1935	CHN	NL	P	42	16	55	2	5
1936	CHN	NL	P	43	14	37	3	3
1937	CHN	NL	P	42	10	55	4	4
1938	CHN	NL	P	43	19	41	1	1
1939	CHN	NL	P	36	5	47	2	3
1940	CHN	NL	P	40	7	63	2	2
1941	CHN	NL	P	26	1	26	2	0
1941	BRO	NL	P	6	0	3	0	0
1942	BRO	NL	P	38	7	27	2	1
Total				570	124	628	39	40

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1936	Baseball Magazine All-Star	NL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1976	Veterans			No
2003	Veterans - Players			No

Ejections (3)

Date	As	Reason
1930-09-16	Player	Call at 2B
1935-08-07	Player	Call at 1B
1938-07-16	Player	Bench jockeying