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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
1959	WS1	AL	3		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0
1960	WS1	AL	13		14	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.143	.143	.143	.286	-0.1
1961	MIN	AL	47		63	10	15	3	1	0	1	0	0	4	13	.238	.294	.317	.611	0.4
1962	MIN	AL	48		100	9	18	3	1	1	10	0	0	8	40	.180	.239	.260	.499	0.4
1963	MIN	AL	36		61	2	8	1	0	1	8	0	0	2	19	.131	.185	.197	.382	0.0
1964	MIN	AL	46		83	11	14	1	0	3	11	0	0	11	31	.169	.263	.289	.552	0.8
1965	MIN	AL	56		93	6	23	4	0	1	9	2	0	3	29	.247	.265	.323	.588	0.9
1966	MIN	AL	47		118	12	23	2	1	2	13	0	0	5	41	.195	.228	.280	.508	0.5
1967	MIN	AL	45		99	7	17	3	1	1	4	0	0	7	26	.172	.226	.253	.479	0.4
1968	MIN	AL	36		77	7	12	3	0	0	5	0	0	2	18	.156	.177	.195	.372	-0.1
1969	MIN	AL	43		87	8	18	8	0	2	10	0	0	4	20	.207	.247	.368	.615	0.7
1970	MIN	AL	56		76	17	15	1	0	1	8	0	0	6	20	.197	.262	.250	.512	0.6
1971	MIN	AL	54		93	6	15	3	0	0	5	2	0	2	16	.161	.179	.194	.373	0.0
1972	MIN	AL	24		45	3	13	3	0	2	4	0	1	1	16	.289	.304	.489	.793	0.6
1973	MIN	AL	31		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.0
1973	CHA	AL	7		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1974	CHA	AL	42		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0
1975	CHA	AL	43		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1976	PHI	NL	42		79	4	14	3	1	1	8	0	0	2	24	.177	.195	.278	.473	0.2
1977	PHI	NL	36		53	4	10	3	0	0	2	0	0	2	12	.189	.218	.245	.463	0.0
1978	PHI	NL	26		48	4	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	15	.146	.163	.167	.330	-0.1
1979	PHI	NL	3		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0.0
1979	NYA	AL	40		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1980	NYA	AL	4		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0.1
1980	SLN	NL	49		35	4	5	1	0	1	2	1	0	2	13	.143	.189	.257	.446
1981	SLN	NL	41		8	2	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	.375	.444	.500	.944	0.2
1982	SLN	NL	62		12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.077	.000	.077	-0.1
1983	SLN	NL	24		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1
Total			1004		1251	117	232	44	5	16	106	5	1	63	367	.185	.225	.267	.491	5.3

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1959	WS1	AL	0	2	3	2	0	0	0	5.0	7	7	1	4	2	12.60	2.200	-0.5
1960	WS1	AL	1	5	13	9	0	0	0	50.0	48	31	8	31	25	5.58	1.580	-0.7
1961	MIN	AL	9	17	36	29	8	1	0	200.2	188	87	12	82	122	3.90	1.346	2.1
1962	MIN	AL	18	14	39	35	16	5	1	269.0	243	94	23	75	173	3.14	1.182	5.4
1963	MIN	AL	10	10	31	27	7	1	1	178.1	195	83	24	38	105	4.19	1.307	-0.6
1964	MIN	AL	17	11	36	34	13	0	1	243.0	231	87	23	60	171	3.22	1.198	3.0
1965	MIN	AL	18	11	45	42	7	2	2	264.1	267	83	25	63	154	2.83	1.248	0.4
1966	MIN	AL	25	13	41	41	19	3	0	304.2	271	93	29	55	205	2.75	1.070	4.5
1967	MIN	AL	16	13	42	38	13	2	0	263.1	269	89	21	42	211	3.04	1.181	4.2
1968	MIN	AL	14	12	30	29	9	2	0	208.0	192	68	16	40	130	2.94	1.115	3.3
1969	MIN	AL	14	13	40	32	10	0	1	242.1	252	94	23	75	139	3.49	1.349	1.4
1970	MIN	AL	14	10	45	34	4	1	0	230.1	244	91	26	58	120	3.56	1.311	1.1
1971	MIN	AL	13	14	39	38	15	4	0	260.1	275	96	16	47	137	3.32	1.237	4.3
1972	MIN	AL	10	2	15	15	5	0	0	113.1	94	26	6	20	64	2.06	1.006	1.8
1973	MIN	AL	11	12	29	28	7	2	0	181.2	206	89	26	39	93	4.41	1.349	1.2
1973	CHA	AL	4	1	7	7	3	1	0	42.2	44	20	4	4	16	4.22	1.125
1974	CHA	AL	21	13	42	39	15	3	0	277.1	263	90	18	63	142	2.92	1.175	7.0
1975	CHA	AL	20	14	43	41	12	1	0	303.2	321	105	20	77	142	3.11	1.311	7.7
1976	PHI	NL	12	14	38	35	7	1	0	227.2	241	88	21	32	83	3.48	1.199	2.3
1977	PHI	NL	6	11	35	27	2	0	0	160.1	211	96	20	40	55	5.39	1.565	-1.4
1978	PHI	NL	8	5	26	24	2	1	0	140.1	150	64	9	32	48	4.10	1.297	-0.2
1979	PHI	NL	1	0	3	1	0	0	0	8.1	9	4	1	5	2	4.32	1.680	0.3
1979	NYA	AL	2	3	40	1	0	0	2	58.1	64	25	4	14	23	3.86	1.337
1980	NYA	AL	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	5.0	8	4	0	4	1	7.20	2.400	0.3
1980	SLN	NL	8	7	49	14	6	1	4	129.2	140	55	6	33	36	3.82	1.334
1981	SLN	NL	6	6	41	1	0	0	4	53.0	60	20	2	17	8	3.40	1.453	-0.7
1982	SLN	NL	5	3	62	2	0	0	2	75.0	79	34	6	23	35	4.08	1.360	-1.1
1983	SLN	NL	0	0	24	0	0	0	0	34.2	48	15	5	10	19	3.89	1.673	-0.2
Total			283	237	898	625	180	31	18	4530.1	4620	1738	395	1083	2461	3.45	1.259	44.9

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1959	WS1	AL	P	3	2	5.0	0	1	0	0
1960	WS1	AL	P	13	9	50.0	0	11	0	1
1961	MIN	AL	P	36	29	200.2	19	41	2	8
1962	MIN	AL	P	39	35	269.0	16	72	3	6
1963	MIN	AL	P	31	27	178.1	19	43	1	5
1964	MIN	AL	P	36	34	243.0	16	48	5	6
1965	MIN	AL	P	45	42	264.1	15	64	6	3
1966	MIN	AL	P	41	41	304.1	19	46	3	5
1967	MIN	AL	P	42	38	263.1	13	46	3	0
1968	MIN	AL	P	30	29	208.0	10	31	1	0
1969	MIN	AL	P	40	32	242.1	9	29	8	4
1970	MIN	AL	P	45	34	230.0	15	43	4	5
1971	MIN	AL	P	39	38	260.0	13	41	1	4
1972	MIN	AL	P	15	15	113.0	5	19	2	0
1973	MIN	AL	P	29	28	181.2	9	22	1	2
1973	CHA	AL	P	7	7	42.2	1	4	0	0
1974	CHA	AL	P	42	39	277.1	14	33	2	3
1975	CHA	AL	P	43	41	303.2	15	39	1	2
1976	PHI	NL	P	38	35	227.2	18	19	2	3
1977	PHI	NL	P	35	27	160.1	7	19	3	1
1978	PHI	NL	P	26	24	140.1	5	15	0	4
1979	PHI	NL	P	3	1	8.1	0	1	0	0
1979	NYA	AL	P	40	1	58.1	5	5	1	0
1980	NYA	AL	P	4	0	5.0	1	3	1	1
1980	SLN	NL	P	49	14	129.2	4	16	1	1
1981	SLN	NL	P	41	1	53.0	4	13	2	1
1982	SLN	NL	P	62	2	75.0	8	14	2	0
1983	SLN	NL	P	24	0	34.2	2	6	1	0
Total				898	625	4529.0	262	744	56	65

Awards

Year	Award	Lg
1962	Gold Glove	AL
1963	Gold Glove	AL
1964	Gold Glove	AL
1965	Gold Glove	AL
1966	TSN All-Star	AL
1966	TSN Pitcher of the Year	AL
1966	Gold Glove	AL
1967	Gold Glove	AL
1968	Gold Glove	AL
1969	Gold Glove	AL
1970	Gold Glove	AL
1971	Gold Glove	AL
1972	Gold Glove	AL
1973	Gold Glove	AL
1974	Gold Glove	AL
1974	Player of the Week	AL
1975	TSN All-Star	AL
1975	Gold Glove	AL
1975	Player of the Week	AL
1976	Gold Glove	NL
1977	Gold Glove	NL

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1989	BBWAA	87	336	No
1990	BBWAA	79	333	No
1991	BBWAA	62	333	No
1992	BBWAA	114	323	No
1993	BBWAA	125	318	No
1994	BBWAA	98	342	No
1995	BBWAA	100	345	No
1996	BBWAA	91	353	No
1997	BBWAA	107	353	No
1998	BBWAA	129	355	No
1999	BBWAA	100	373	No
2000	BBWAA	125	375	No
2001	BBWAA	135	387	No
2002	BBWAA	109	354	No
2003	BBWAA	130	372	No
2005	Veterans - Players	43	60	No
2007	Veterans - Players	52	62	No
2009	Veterans - 1943 and Later	38	48	No
2012	Veterans - Golden Era	10	12	No
2015	Veterans - Golden Era	10	12	No
2022	Veterans - Golden Age Era	12	12	Yes

Ejections (1)

Date	As	Reason
1967-07-17	Player	Balls and strikes