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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1941-05-05 · Played 1964–1977 · Career WAR 8.3 (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
1964	CIN	NL	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0
1965	CIN	NL	21	42	4	16	2	2	0	6	1	0	3	7	.381	.435	.524	.959	0.6
1966	CIN	NL	138	542	72	154	23	1	9	49	3	4	24	31	.284	.315	.380	.695	1.4
1967	CIN	NL	137	497	40	136	27	4	2	35	5	10	24	41	.274	.305	.356	.661	0.3
1968	CIN	NL	127	507	35	146	28	2	2	47	5	6	12	27	.288	.305	.363	.668	1.8
1969	CIN	NL	126	480	38	129	18	1	1	40	4	6	18	33	.269	.296	.317	.613	-0.7
1970	CIN	NL	150	575	42	136	21	1	1	45	2	2	21	33	.237	.262	.282	.544	-1.6
1971	CIN	NL	150	547	40	141	26	1	3	52	3	4	26	33	.258	.289	.325	.614	2.6
1972	HOU	NL	139	518	45	134	20	5	5	60	4	3	24	27	.259	.291	.346	.637	0.9
1973	HOU	NL	146	543	44	156	28	2	4	61	1	1	32	21	.287	.325	.368	.693	1.6
1974	HOU	NL	137	452	32	126	21	1	5	50	5	4	23	27	.279	.312	.363	.675	1.6
1975	HOU	NL	64	135	7	28	2	0	0	14	0	0	10	8	.207	.265	.222	.487	0.1
1976	PIT	NL	62	87	10	24	5	1	1	13	0	0	10	5	.276	.350	.391	.741	0.2
1977	PIT	NL	15	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.5
1977	BOS	AL	21	59	5	16	2	0	1	5	0	0	4	4	.271	.328	.356	.684
Total			1435	4997	414	1342	223	21	34	477	33	40	231	301	.269	.301	.342	.643	8.3

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1965	CIN	NL	2B	1	0	3.0	1	1	0	1
1965	CIN	NL	3B	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0
1965	CIN	NL	SS	8	7	70.0	15	21	1	5
1966	CIN	NL	2B	20	20	168.1	45	50	0	9
1966	CIN	NL	3B	113	113	1001.1	110	208	13	16
1967	CIN	NL	2B	88	86	780.2	185	224	9	50
1967	CIN	NL	SS	46	44	394.2	79	123	12	25
1968	CIN	NL	2B	127	125	1124.1	322	370	15	82
1968	CIN	NL	3B	1	0	1.0	0	2	0	0
1968	CIN	NL	SS	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0
1969	CIN	NL	2B	125	125	1097.2	320	344	17	87
1969	CIN	NL	SS	4	0	7.0	5	3	0	2
1970	CIN	NL	2B	148	147	1241.0	350	410	13	107
1970	CIN	NL	SS	12	0	21.0	3	2	0	0
1971	CIN	NL	2B	149	146	1294.0	395	468	9	130
1972	HOU	NL	2B	139	139	1247.0	353	441	17	115
1973	HOU	NL	2B	145	145	1293.0	325	438	9	104
1974	HOU	NL	2B	133	130	1050.2	308	360	10	99
1975	HOU	NL	2B	42	27	265.1	58	109	2	19
1975	HOU	NL	3B	3	1	4.0	0	0	0	0
1975	HOU	NL	SS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
1976	PIT	NL	2B	11	6	69.0	22	19	0	4
1976	PIT	NL	3B	22	10	106.2	8	27	3	4
1976	PIT	NL	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
1977	BOS	AL	2B	1	1	9.0	4	3	0	0
1977	BOS	AL	3B	2	2	18.0	0	1	0	0
Total				1346	1274	11275.2	2909	3624	130	859

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1966	Rookie of the Year	NL
1966	TSN Rookie Player of the Year	NL
1968	TSN All-Star	NL
1970	Gold Glove	NL
1971	Gold Glove	NL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1983	BBWAA	1	281	No

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