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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1941-05-29 · Played 1962–1974 · Career WAR -2.9 (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
1962	WS2	AL	14	42	6	11	0	1	1	2	0	1	2	7	.262	.295	.381	.676	0.1
1963	WS2	AL	36	62	3	11	1	1	0	4	2	0	6	22	.177	.261	.226	.487	-0.2
1964	WS2	AL	148	482	55	111	16	4	7	35	3	3	29	119	.230	.280	.324	.604	0.0
1965	LAN	NL	104	105	12	18	3	0	1	5	1	0	8	33	.171	.243	.229	.472	-0.2
1966	LAN	NL	125	274	15	55	9	2	3	24	1	2	10	64	.201	.241	.281	.522	-1.1
1967	NYA	AL	78	179	22	35	4	0	1	17	2	1	17	35	.196	.265	.235	.500	-0.6
1969	SE1	AL	61	128	18	30	3	1	4	14	4	0	14	25	.234	.315	.367	.682	0.2
1970	ML4	AL	25	55	8	14	2	0	2	6	0	1	5	9	.255	.317	.400	.717	0.7
1970	BOS	AL	43	129	15	33	7	1	4	17	0	0	6	14	.256	.292	.419	.711
1971	BOS	AL	74	272	41	75	12	5	5	22	1	1	14	42	.276	.320	.412	.732	0.2
1972	BOS	AL	71	212	22	52	11	1	2	22	0	1	18	40	.245	.311	.335	.646	-0.6
1973	BOS	AL	67	155	17	28	9	1	1	16	0	0	12	45	.181	.246	.271	.517	-0.9
1974	BOS	AL	10	15	3	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	6	.133	.188	.333	.521	-0.5
Total			856	2110	237	475	77	17	32	185	14	10	142	461	.225	.274	.323	.597	-2.9

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1962	WS2	AL	3B	2	2	16.1	2	5	2	0
1962	WS2	AL	SS	9	9	78.0	13	25	1	4
1963	WS2	AL	3B	26	18	160.2	16	46	3	4
1963	WS2	AL	SS	2	1	9.0	3	3	1	1
1964	WS2	AL	2B	2	1	9.0	1	3	0	1
1964	WS2	AL	3B	106	81	758.1	97	191	18	14
1964	WS2	AL	SS	49	43	372.0	71	130	7	27
1965	LAN	NL	3B	95	21	341.2	35	64	3	5
1965	LAN	NL	SS	5	2	29.0	5	10	1	1
1966	LAN	NL	2B	15	10	93.2	26	26	0	7
1966	LAN	NL	3B	87	52	492.0	39	127	6	10
1966	LAN	NL	SS	28	24	212.0	37	57	2	15
1967	NYA	AL	2B	2	3	29.0	9	1	0	0
1967	NYA	AL	3B	34	24	237.1	31	64	4	5
1967	NYA	AL	SS	36	29	254.0	43	87	12	16
1969	SE1	AL	3B	23	18	163.0	21	37	2	2
1969	SE1	AL	SS	33	14	153.1	42	45	8	11
1970	ML4	AL	1B	1	0	2.0	3	0	0	0
1970	ML4	AL	2B	16	14	130.0	26	32	5	7
1970	ML4	AL	3B	5	1	11.0	3	3	0	2
1970	BOS	AL	2B	2	2	18.0	3	5	0	1
1970	BOS	AL	3B	33	28	250.0	31	65	4	4
1970	BOS	AL	SS	4	2	22.0	5	7	0	0
1971	BOS	AL	2B	37	31	277.0	71	76	4	16
1971	BOS	AL	3B	5	5	42.0	2	13	0	1
1971	BOS	AL	SS	33	27	260.0	41	74	9	18
1972	BOS	AL	2B	32	25	210.0	62	66	5	21
1972	BOS	AL	3B	11	7	86.0	4	10	3	0
1972	BOS	AL	SS	27	22	220.0	44	65	5	13
1973	BOS	AL	2B	31	27	251.1	75	72	3	25
1973	BOS	AL	3B	24	14	156.0	17	36	3	5
1974	BOS	AL	2B	6	1	26.0	7	7	4	3
1974	BOS	AL	3B	4	2	20.0	1	4	0	0
Total				825	560	5389.2	886	1456	115	239

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1980	BBWAA	0	289	No

Ejections (2)

Date	As	Reason
1966-05-20	Player	Balls and strikes (ejected from bench)
1969-09-22	Player	Called third strike (threw equipment)

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Batting

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Ejections (2)