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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1927-08-07 · Played 1945–1957 · Career WAR 11.2 (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
1945	DET	AL	13	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1
1946	DET	AL	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	0.1
1947	DET	AL	23	40	2	12	2	0	0	3	0	1	0	3	.300	.300	.350	.650	0.3
1948	DET	AL	43	56	2	11	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	2	.196	.196	.196	.392	-0.1
1949	DET	AL	36	78	8	19	2	0	0	7	0	0	1	14	.244	.253	.269	.522	0.0
1950	DET	AL	41	93	5	14	4	1	0	3	0	0	5	20	.151	.194	.215	.409	-0.3
1952	DET	AL	36	69	2	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	10	.101	.127	.101	.228	-0.5
1953	DET	AL	16	19	4	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	.158	.158	.368	.526	0.2
1953	CLE	AL	23	34	3	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.147	.171	.176	.347
1954	CLE	AL	32	65	6	18	2	0	1	10	1	0	2	11	.277	.294	.354	.648	0.8
1955	CLE	AL	35	38	5	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	.158	.220	.158	.378	-0.1
1956	CLE	AL	23	12	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.334	-0.1
1957	CLE	AL	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0
1957	BAL	AL	5	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000
Total			330	513	37	99	12	1	2	37	2	1	14	77	.193	.214	.232	.446	0.2

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1945	DET	AL	0	2	13	0	0	0	0	25.1	27	15	1	11	9	5.33	1.500	-0.5
1946	DET	AL	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	8.0	15	8	1	0	2	9.00	1.875	-0.3
1947	DET	AL	7	2	23	9	7	2	0	110.2	106	42	6	36	58	3.42	1.283	1.1
1948	DET	AL	2	16	43	20	4	0	10	164.1	186	85	11	52	74	4.66	1.448	0.5
1949	DET	AL	15	10	34	25	13	2	0	203.2	227	84	19	59	85	3.71	1.404	2.5
1950	DET	AL	19	12	41	34	21	4	4	274.2	257	108	29	99	88	3.54	1.296	6.0
1952	DET	AL	8	20	35	28	10	2	1	221.0	218	107	19	65	109	4.36	1.281	1.5
1953	DET	AL	2	6	16	9	3	1	1	68.2	87	45	11	29	28	5.90	1.689	-0.5
1953	CLE	AL	7	7	22	13	6	1	3	109.0	113	46	4	25	40	3.80	1.266
1954	CLE	AL	15	7	32	25	11	1	0	188.0	198	70	14	59	68	3.35	1.367	1.3
1955	CLE	AL	10	6	35	12	3	1	0	124.1	126	55	15	44	53	3.98	1.367	1.2
1956	CLE	AL	2	2	22	4	0	0	1	46.2	60	34	5	31	19	6.56	1.950	-0.8
1957	CLE	AL	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	4.0	6	3	1	3	3	6.75	2.250	-1.0
1957	BAL	AL	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	6.2	20	13	0	3	3	17.55	3.450
Total			87	91	325	181	78	14	20	1555.0	1646	715	136	516	639	4.14	1.390	11.0

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1945	DET	AL	P	13			2	8	0	1
1946	DET	AL	P	1			0	1	0	0
1947	DET	AL	P	23			4	17	2	2
1948	DET	AL	P	43			9	47	4	5
1949	DET	AL	P	34			14	59	2	7
1950	DET	AL	P	41			15	63	4	2
1952	DET	AL	P	35			16	40	1	3
1953	DET	AL	P	16			4	10	1	0
1953	CLE	AL	P	22			7	18	0	1
1954	CLE	AL	P	32	25	188.0	17	38	2	3
1955	CLE	AL	P	35	12	124.1	14	27	1	4
1956	CLE	AL	P	22	4	46.2	3	9	0	0
1957	CLE	AL	P	3	0	4.0	0	0	0	0
1957	BAL	AL	P	5	1	6.2	0	2	0	0
Total				325	42	369.2	105	339	17	28

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1950	Baseball Magazine All-Star	AL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1964	BBWAA	2	151	No

Ejections (1)

Date	As	Reason
1952-04-20	Player	Bench jockeying