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MIA14

LAA6

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CHC6

MIL8

CIN1

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MIL20

CLE5

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TEX1

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CLE9

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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
1980	NYN	NL	27		93	12	30	1	1	0	9	2	3	11	14	.323	.396	.355	.751	0.0
1981	NYN	NL	26		36	5	10	2	0	0	0	1	0	4	7	.278	.350	.333	.683	0.4
1982	NYN	NL	96		261	37	71	13	2	3	22	8	7	49	47	.272	.387	.372	.759	1.4
1983	NYN	NL	26		42	6	7	0	1	0	3	0	0	2	8	.167	.205	.214	.419	-0.6
1984	NYN	NL	128		436	68	122	19	2	1	26	32	9	56	63	.280	.360	.339	.699	1.2
1985	NYN	NL	145		520	77	142	24	5	1	38	30	12	36	72	.273	.320	.344	.664	2.5
1986	NYN	NL	124		387	67	124	18	2	1	27	13	7	36	32	.320	.376	.385	.761	3.2
1987	NYN	NL	94		300	43	75	6	1	1	23	11	3	25	43	.250	.307	.287	.594	0.7
1988	NYN	NL	99		294	44	89	12	0	0	17	9	5	41	49	.303	.388	.344	.732	2.9
1989	MIN	AL	87		299	33	69	9	2	1	26	1	1	32	45	.231	.306	.284	.590	-0.7
1990	PIT	NL	104		315	62	92	21	3	2	28	6	3	42	53	.292	.374	.397	.771	1.5
1991	PHI	NL	94		185	20	45	12	0	0	15	3	2	30	30	.243	.344	.308	.652	0.5
1992	PHI	NL	42		48	6	13	1	0	0	6	1	0	6	9	.271	.352	.292	.644	0.2
1993	SEA	AL	10		29	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.138	.167	.138	.305	0.0
Total			1102		3245	482	893	138	19	10	240	117	52	371	480	.275	.350	.339	.688	13.2

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1980	NYN	NL	2B	20	18	165.0	48	43	0	7
1980	NYN	NL	SS	8	8	66.0	14	12	1	4
1981	NYN	NL	2B	11	5	57.0	14	21	2	2
1981	NYN	NL	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
1982	NYN	NL	2B	88	69	586.0	169	202	14	30
1982	NYN	NL	3B	6	4	32.0	4	7	2	0
1982	NYN	NL	SS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
1983	NYN	NL	2B	14	3	44.2	11	12	0	2
1983	NYN	NL	3B	2	2	18.0	5	3	2	0
1984	NYN	NL	2B	115	108	914.2	218	294	10	72
1984	NYN	NL	SS	8	2	32.0	5	12	0	1
1985	NYN	NL	2B	140	122	1128.0	272	370	7	76
1985	NYN	NL	SS	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0
1986	NYN	NL	2B	113	92	848.0	186	290	17	56
1987	NYN	NL	2B	87	77	654.2	131	210	6	44
1988	NYN	NL	2B	92	84	707.2	128	219	4	36
1989	MIN	AL	2B	84	79	655.2	146	187	6	37
1990	PIT	NL	2B	15	14	106.0	22	32	0	5
1990	PIT	NL	3B	71	68	519.1	34	104	12	5
1991	PHI	NL	2B	36	23	222.0	50	52	2	12
1991	PHI	NL	3B	20	17	120.2	4	27	2	1
1992	PHI	NL	2B	10	3	36.0	10	20	1	4
1992	PHI	NL	3B	2	0	1.1	0	0	0	0
1993	SEA	AL	2B	1	0	4.0	0	1	0	0
1993	SEA	AL	3B	9	8	62.0	4	14	3	0
Total				955	806	6985.2	1476	2132	91	394

Ejections (4)

Date	As	Reason
1988-08-03	Player	Called third strike
1989-09-29	Player	Called third strike
1990-05-15	Player	Called third strike (Threw equipment)
1992-06-22	Player	Balls and strikes (from bench)