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Bats: B · Throws: R · Born 1920-01-15 · Played 1941–1957 · Career WAR 25.3 (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
1941	CLE	AL	9		6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.334	-0.1
1942	CLE	AL	14		15	2	5	1	1	0	2	0	0	2	1	.333	.412	.533	.945	0.3
1943	CLE	AL	3		2	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	0.1
1944	CLE	AL	44		73	11	19	1	1	0	7	1	0	6	13	.260	.316	.301	.617	0.6
1945	CLE	AL	37		91	8	21	2	0	0	10	0	0	10	17	.231	.307	.253	.560	0.7
1946	CLE	AL	37		56	4	11	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	14	.196	.224	.196	.420	0.0
1947	CLE	AL	30		22	1	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.318	.318	.364	.682	0.2
1948	CLE	AL	38		41	3	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	7	.146	.205	.171	.376	0.0
1949	CLE	AL	27		24	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	5	.167	.231	.208	.439	0.1
1950	CLE	AL	31		38	1	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	9	.158	.179	.158	.337	-0.2
1951	CLE	AL	27		27	2	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	8	.296	.406	.333	.739	0.2
1952	CLE	AL	30		30	2	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	10	.100	.229	.100	.329	0.0
1953	CLE	AL	5		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.6
1953	DET	AL	19		41	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	10	.073	.073	.073	.146
1954	DET	AL	36		79	6	15	0	0	0	3	0	0	8	21	.190	.273	.190	.463	0.4
1955	DET	AL	28		54	10	9	1	0	0	5	0	0	16	12	.167	.357	.185	.542	0.6
1956	DET	AL	40		27	3	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	11	10	.148	.395	.148	.543	0.2
1957	DET	AL	15		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0
Total			470		630	58	124	9	2	0	40	2	0	71	146	.197	.278	.217	.496	2.5

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1941	CLE	AL	1	1	9	2	1	0	2	23.1	25	11	0	11	19	4.24	1.543	0.1
1942	CLE	AL	2	0	14	0	0	0	0	44.1	46	18	2	23	14	3.65	1.556	0.0
1943	CLE	AL	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	4.0	6	4	0	0	4	9.00	1.500	-0.1
1944	CLE	AL	10	9	35	21	12	2	1	203.2	160	58	5	70	115	2.56	1.129	2.8
1945	CLE	AL	19	9	33	30	21	3	1	251.0	229	71	6	66	101	2.55	1.175	5.7
1946	CLE	AL	5	15	29	21	5	2	4	153.2	159	74	20	47	75	4.33	1.341	-0.1
1947	CLE	AL	3	5	29	7	0	0	4	84.1	77	35	8	36	39	3.74	1.340	-0.4
1948	CLE	AL	9	3	38	9	4	1	2	130.0	109	41	10	51	50	2.84	1.231	1.8
1949	CLE	AL	4	6	27	12	3	0	0	92.0	86	34	8	40	22	3.33	1.370	0.7
1950	CLE	AL	10	7	31	13	4	1	0	113.1	94	46	10	36	43	3.65	1.147	1.4
1951	CLE	AL	7	4	27	8	4	0	1	107.1	98	33	6	29	40	2.77	1.183	1.7
1952	CLE	AL	7	7	29	13	3	1	1	122.2	109	50	14	28	65	3.67	1.117	0.7
1953	CLE	AL	1	1	5	1	0	0	0	11.0	11	4	0	3	8	3.27	1.273	1.5
1953	DET	AL	6	8	19	17	6	1	1	125.2	138	63	17	36	59	4.51	1.385
1954	DET	AL	18	16	36	32	17	4	1	252.2	236	77	26	57	102	2.74	1.160	5.6
1955	DET	AL	13	10	28	25	8	2	0	181.0	183	80	26	37	73	3.98	1.215	1.0
1956	DET	AL	8	6	40	13	4	0	4	141.0	142	67	25	47	64	4.28	1.340	0.8
1957	DET	AL	0	1	15	1	0	0	1	23.2	32	16	3	13	11	6.08	1.901	-0.4
Total			123	108	447	225	92	17	23	2064.2	1940	782	186	630	904	3.41	1.245	22.8

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1941	CLE	AL	P	9			0	0	0	0
1942	CLE	AL	P	14			2	6	2	1
1943	CLE	AL	P	3			0	0	0	0
1944	CLE	AL	P	35			10	22	2	3
1945	CLE	AL	P	33			15	31	2	1
1946	CLE	AL	P	29			10	21	1	2
1947	CLE	AL	P	29			2	13	1	0
1948	CLE	AL	P	38			8	17	2	3
1949	CLE	AL	P	27			8	18	1	0
1950	CLE	AL	P	31			11	14	0	3
1951	CLE	AL	P	27			13	18	0	3
1952	CLE	AL	P	29			7	9	0	0
1953	CLE	AL	P	5			1	0	0	0
1953	DET	AL	P	19			9	13	0	1
1954	DET	AL	P	36	32	252.2	16	26	1	1
1955	DET	AL	P	28	25	180.2	12	22	1	2
1956	DET	AL	P	40	13	141.0	1	16	0	0
1957	DET	AL	P	15	1	23.2	1	2	0	0
Total				447	71	598.0	126	248	13	20

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1945	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1964	BBWAA	1	151	No

Ejections (1)

Date	As	Reason
1954-08-29	Player	Fight with Marion Fricano after HBP