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Bucky Dent

Russell Earl Dent
born Russell Earl O'Dey

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: November 25, 1951 in Savannah, GA
High School: Hialeah (Hialeah, FL)
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 1st round (6th pick) of the 1970 amateur draft (June Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: June 1, 1973
Teams (by GP): Yankees/WhiteSox/Rangers/Royals 1973-1984
Agents: Ed Kleven [*]
Final Game: September 11, 1984
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All-Star

Standard Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1970	18	CHW-min	A,Rk	61	240	240		69	6	3	3						.288	.288	.375	.663		90						APP,WHS · MIDW,GULF
1971	19	CHW-min	A	83	322	294	34	68	16	0	1	29	0	4	28	40	.231	.298	.296	.594		87						APP · MIDW
1972	20	CHW-min	AA	125	526	453	58	134	10	6	6	56	6	6	53	56	.296	.373	.384	.757		174		5	11	4		KNX · SOUL
1973	21	CHW-min	AAA	95	356	356		105	10	3	3						.295	.295	.365	.660		130						IWA · AA
1973	21	CHW	AL	40	132	117	17	29	2	0	0	10	2	3	10	18	.248	.308	.265	.573	60	31	1	1	2	2	0	6/45
1974	22	CHW	AL	154	552	496	55	136	15	3	5	45	3	4	28	48	.274	.316	.347	.662	89	172	9	3	23	2	0	*6	RoY-2
1975	23	CHW	AL	157	662	602	52	159	29	4	3	58	2	4	36	48	.264	.301	.341	.642	80	205	16	0	15	9	3	*6	AS
1976	24	CHW	AL	158	626	562	44	138	18	4	2	52	3	5	43	45	.246	.300	.302	.603	77	170	10	2	17	2	3	*6
1977	25	NYY	AL	158	540	477	54	118	18	4	8	49	1	1	39	28	.247	.300	.352	.653	79	168	9	1	14	9	0	*6
1978	26	NYY	AL	123	415	379	40	92	11	1	5	40	3	1	23	24	.243	.286	.317	.603	72	120	10	2	6	5	1	*6
1979	27	NYY	AL	141	490	431	47	99	14	2	2	32	0	0	37	30	.230	.287	.285	.573	57	123	5	1	13	8	1	*6
1980	28	NYY	AL	141	553	489	57	128	26	2	5	52	0	3	48	37	.262	.327	.354	.681	89	173	6	2	9	5	1	*6	AS
1981	29	NYY	AL	73	258	227	20	54	11	0	7	27	0	1	19	17	.238	.300	.379	.679	97	86	1	2	8	2	0	*6	AS
1982	30	TOT	AL	105	337	306	27	59	10	1	1	23	0	0	21	21	.193	.242	.242	.484	36	74	9	0	7	3	0	6
1982	30	NYY	AL	59	173	160	11	27	1	1	0	9	0	0	8	11	.169	.207	.188	.395	11	30	7	0	4	1	0	6
1982	30	TEX	AL	46	164	146	16	32	9	0	1	14	0	0	13	10	.219	.280	.301	.581	64	44	2	0	3	2	0	6
1983	31	TEX	AL	131	450	417	36	99	15	2	2	34	3	7	23	31	.237	.278	.297	.575	61	124	3	1	7	2	0	*6
1984	32	NYY-min	AAA	17	66	60	4	15	1	0	1	5	0	0	1	6	.250	.266	.317	.582		19		1	2	2	0	CLB · IL
1984	32	KCR	AL	11	10	9	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.333	.400	.333	.733	106	3	0	0	0	0	0	/65
12 Seasons				1392	5025	4512	451	1114	169	23	40	423	17	29	328	349	.247	.297	.321	.618	74	1449	79	15	121	49	9
162 Game Avg.				162	585	525	52	130	20	3	5	49	2	3	38	41	.247	.297	.321	.618	74	169	9	2	14	6	1

NYY (6 yrs)				695	2429	2163	229	518	81	10	27	209	4	6	174	147	.239	.295	.324	.618	72	700	38	8	54	30	3
CHW (4 yrs)				509	1972	1777	168	462	64	11	10	165	10	16	117	159	.260	.305	.325	.631	80	578	36	6	57	15	6
TEX (2 yrs)				177	614	563	52	131	24	2	3	48	3	7	36	41	.233	.278	.298	.577	62	168	5	1	10	4	0
KCR (1 yr)				11	10	9	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.333	.400	.333	.733	106	3	0	0	0	0	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
1973	21	CHW	AL	132	-6	0	2	1	-2	2	4	1	0.1	3	0.3	-0.2	$	6/45
1974	22	CHW	AL	552	-10	-2	2	0	-3	10	18	15	1.4	18	1.9	-0.5	$	*6	RoY-2
1975	23	CHW	AL	662	-16	-4	4	0	-2	10	21	13	1.2	15	1.5	-0.3	$	*6	AS
1976	24	CHW	AL	627	-20	-3	-3	1	-9	10	20	-4	-0.7	5	0.5	-1.2	$52,000	*6
1977	25	NYY	AL	540	-16	-2	1	0	12	10	17	22	2.2	10	1.0	1.2	$130,000	*6
1978	26	NYY	AL	415	-12	0	0	0	17	7	14	26	2.5	9	0.9	1.6	$	*6
1979	27	NYY	AL	490	-23	2	-1	0	22	9	16	25	2.5	3	0.3	2.2	$	*6
1980	28	NYY	AL	553	-7	-2	0	0	19	8	17	35	3.5	16	1.6	1.9	$	*6	AS
1981	29	NYY	AL	258	-3	-1	1	1	4	4	8	14	1.4	10	1.0	0.4	$	*6	AS
1982	30	NYY	AL	173	-19	0	1	-1	0	3	5	-11	-1.1	-11	-1.1	0.0	$	6
1982	30	TEX	AL	164	-7	1	0	0	2	3	5	4	0.4	2	0.2	0.2	$	6
1983	31	TEX	AL	450	-23	-4	-2	2	5	7	14	-1	-0.2	-6	-0.6	0.4	$	*6
1984	32	KCR	AL	10	0	0	0	0	-1	0	0	-1	-0.1	0	0.0	-0.1	$	/65
12 Seasons				5026	-162	-15	5	4	64	83	159	138	13.1	74	7.5	5.6	$182,000

NYY (6 yrs)				2429	-80	-3	2	0	74	41	77	111	11.0	37	3.7	7.3	$130,000
CHW (4 yrs)				1973	-52	-9	5	2	-16	32	63	25	2.0	41	4.2	-2.2	$52,000
TEX (2 yrs)				614	-30	-3	-2	2	7	10	19	3	0.2	-4	-0.4	0.6	$
KCR (1 yr)				10	0	0	0	0	-1	0	0	-1	-0.1	0	0.0	-0.1	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1973	21	CHW	AL	132	96	10	2.8	97	.287	.248	.265	.308	.335	.265	.390	.573	.725	60	.310	-6.1	-0.6	.446	.094	.017	.0
1974	22	CHW	AL	552	398	54	3.6	92	.294	.274	.262	.316	.327	.347	.376	.662	.703	89	.444	-8.6	-0.9	.542	.127	.073	3.8
1975	23	CHW	AL	662	487	60	3.3	94	.279	.264	.260	.301	.331	.341	.382	.642	.713	80	.382	-16.4	-1.7	.516	.133	.076	2.4
1976	24	CHW	AL	626	458	52	3.1	87	.263	.246	.257	.300	.322	.302	.362	.603	.684	77	.383	-17.1	-1.8	.485	.130	.057	2.4
1977	25	NYY	AL	540	392	52	3.6	99	.244	.247	.265	.300	.329	.352	.403	.653	.732	79	.381	-13.8	-1.4	.564	.187	.105	1.8
1978	26	NYY	AL	415	309	34	2.9	91	.245	.243	.258	.286	.322	.317	.380	.603	.702	72	.331	-14.2	-1.4	.493	.140	.074	3.8
1979	27	NYY	AL	490	358	39	2.9	100	.238	.230	.267	.287	.332	.285	.405	.573	.736	57	.292	-25.1	-2.5	.478	.142	.056	.0
1980	28	NYY	AL	553	384	59	4.1	97	.272	.262	.267	.327	.329	.354	.396	.681	.724	89	.452	-6.0	-0.6	.595	.184	.092	.0
1981	29	NYY	AL	258	185	27	3.9	87	.229	.238	.254	.300	.318	.379	.369	.679	.687	97	.481	-1.0	-0.1	.606	.220	.141	.0
1982	30	TOT	AL	337	266	19	1.9	96	.202	.193	.260	.242	.323	.242	.396	.484	.720	36	.169	-26.5	-2.7	.371	.118	.049	.0
1982	30	NYY	AL	173	145	6	1.1	97	.180	.169	.262	.207	.325	.188	.399	.395	.724	11	.069	-19.9	-2.0	.271	.069	.019
1982	30	TEX	AL	164	121	13	2.9	94	.226	.219	.258	.280	.321	.301	.394	.581	.715	64	.300	-6.6	-0.7	.491	.171	.082	.0
1983	31	TEX	AL	450	337	34	2.7	95	.251	.237	.262	.278	.323	.297	.395	.575	.719	61	.278	-22.4	-2.2	.439	.106	.060	2.4
1984	32	KCR	AL	10	6	1	4.5	97	.429	.333	.264	.400	.326	.333	.398	.733	.724	106	.495	0.1	0.0	.667	.111	.000
12 Seasons				5025	3676	441	3.2	94	.257	.247	.262	.297	.326	.321	.387	.618	.713	74	.362	-157.1	-15.9	.508	.144	.074	23.9
162 Game Avg.				585	428	51	3.2	94	.257	.247	.262	.297	.326	.321	.387	.618	.713	74	.362	-157.1	-15.9	.508	.144	.074	3

NYY (6 yrs)				2429	1773	217	3.3	96	.243	.239	.263	.295	.327	.324	.394	.618	.721	72	.357	-80.0	-8.0	.521	.164	.084	7.0
CHW (4 yrs)				1972	1439	176	3.3	91	.278	.260	.260	.305	.327	.325	.375	.631	.702	80	.395	-48.2	-5.0	.508	.128	.065	10.0
TEX (2 yrs)				614	458	47	2.8	95	.245	.233	.261	.278	.323	.298	.395	.577	.718	62	.284	-29.0	-2.9	.453	.123	.066	3.0
KCR (1 yr)				10	6	1	4.5	97	.429	.333	.264	.400	.326	.333	.398	.733	.724	106	.495	0.1	0.0	.667	.111	.000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1977	25	NYY	AL	ALCS	KCR	W	5	16	14	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	.214	.267	.286	.552	4	0	0	1	0	0
1977	25	NYY	AL	WS	LAD	W	6	21	19	0	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	.263	.333	.263	.596	5	0	0	0	0	0
1978	26	NYY	AL	ALCS	KCR	W	4	15	15	0	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	3	1	0	0	0	0
1978	26	NYY	AL	WS	LAD	W	6	25	24	3	10	1	0	0	7	0	0	1	2	.417	.440	.458	.898	11	0	0	0	0	0

1980	28	NYY	AL	ALCS	KCR	L	3	12	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	1	0	1	0	0
3 Seasons (5 Series)							24	89	83	4	23	2	0	0	15	0	0	4	4	.277	.310	.301	.612	25	2	0	2	0	0
3 ALCS							12	43	40	1	8	1	0	0	6	0	0	1	1	.200	.220	.225	.445	9	2	0	2	0	0
2 WS							12	46	43	3	15	1	0	0	9	0	0	3	3	.349	.391	.372	.763	16	0	0	0	0	0

All-Star Batting

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1975	CHW	AL	23		1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

1980	NYY	AL	28	as SS	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
1981	NYY	AL	29	as SS	2	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.500	2.500	3	0	0	0	0	0
3 Seasons (3 Appearances)					5	5	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.600	.600	.800	1.400	4	0	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1973	21	CHW	AL	132	0.0%	13.6%	7.6%	1.5%	7%	1.80	6.5		11.7	0.92	77%
1974	22	CHW	AL	552	0.9%	8.7%	5.1%	4.2%	17%	1.71	10.3	99.2	11.0	0.92	81%
1975	23	CHW	AL	662	0.5%	7.3%	5.4%	5.4%	23%	1.33	12.5	200.7	10.4	0.87	85%
1976	24	CHW	AL	626	0.3%	7.2%	6.9%	3.8%	17%	1.05	12.5	281.0	10.8	0.89	83%
1977	25	NYY	AL	540	1.5%	5.2%	7.2%	5.6%	25%	0.72	17.0	59.6	9.7	0.74	83%
1978	26	NYY	AL	415	1.2%	5.8%	5.5%	4.1%	19%	1.04	15.8	75.8	9.5	0.66	86%
1979	27	NYY	AL	490	0.4%	6.1%	7.6%	3.7%	18%	0.81	14.4	215.5	13.5	0.67	83%
1980	28	NYY	AL	553	0.9%	6.7%	8.7%	6.0%	26%	0.77	13.2	97.8	9.4	0.64	82%
1981	29	NYY	AL	258	2.7%	6.6%	7.4%	7.0%	33%	0.89	13.4	32.4	8.4	0.62	79%
1982	30	TOT	AL	337	0.3%	6.2%	6.2%	3.6%	20%	1.00	14.6	306.0	13.3	0.72	85%
1982	30	NYY	AL	173	0.0%	6.4%	4.6%	1.2%	7%	1.38	14.5		17.8	0.89	87%
1982	30	TEX	AL	164	0.6%	6.1%	7.9%	6.1%	31%	0.77	14.6	146.0	10.4	0.56	84%
1983	31	TEX	AL	450	0.4%	6.9%	5.1%	4.2%	19%	1.35	13.5	208.5	12.3	0.77	86%
1984	32	KCR	AL	10	0.0%	20.0%	10.0%	0.0%	0%	2.00	4.5		9.0	0.00	70%
12 Seasons				5025	0.8%	7.0%	6.5%	4.6%	21%	1.06	12.9	112.8	10.7	0.76	83%
MLB Averages					2.0%	13.1%	8.5%	6.4%	28%	1.54	6.8	45.8	8.6	1.09	75%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1973	21	CHW	AL	-6.1	-0.6	140	-1.0	1.4	-2.4	.94	-0.4	-0.7	-4.3	-0.4	1.03	-5.4	1.54	1
1974	22	CHW	AL	-8.6	-0.9	568	-0.1	8.7	-8.8	.94	-0.7	0.6	-4.6	-0.5	0.93	-11.2		0
1975	23	CHW	AL	-16.4	-1.7	671	-0.2	11.4	-11.6	1.04	-1.7	1.5	-18.0	-1.8	0.96	-20.2		0
1976	24	CHW	AL	-17.1	-1.8	641	-2.2	10.1	-12.2	1.12	-2.1	0.2	-14.3	-1.5	0.98	-19.6	1.18	1
1977	25	NYY	AL	-13.8	-1.4	546	-1.9	6.5	-8.4	.86	-1.7	-0.6	-18.7	-1.9	0.95	-18.0		0
1978	26	NYY	AL	-14.2	-1.4	424	-0.7	5.5	-6.2	.86	-1.4	0.5	-12.4	-1.3	0.98	-16.0		0
1979	27	NYY	AL	-25.1	-2.5	498	-1.4	7.0	-8.4	.97	-2.5	1.1	-24.2	-2.4	0.92	-28.9		0
1980	28	NYY	AL	-6.0	-0.6	559	-0.8	8.5	-9.2	.95	-0.8	0.0	-10.1	-1.0	0.94	-15.8		0
1981	29	NYY	AL	-1.0	-0.1	262	0.6	4.4	-3.8	.92	0.2	0.4	1.6	0.2	0.91	1.8		0
1982	30	TOT	AL	-26.5	-2.7	341	-2.5	4.0	-6.5	.99	-2.5	-0.1	-27.5	-2.8	0.97	-28.3	1.29	2
1982	30	NYY	AL	-19.9	-2.0	174	-2.2	1.6	-3.8	1.00	-2.0	-0.2	-23.0	-2.3	0.97	-22.3	0.07	1
1982	30	TEX	AL	-6.6	-0.7	167	-0.3	2.4	-2.7	.97	-0.5	0.2	-4.6	-0.5	0.96	-6.0	2.51	1
1983	31	TEX	AL	-22.4	-2.2	463	-3.3	5.7	-8.9	1.03	-2.2	-1.0	-19.5	-2.0	0.94	-24.6		0
1984	32	KCR	AL	0.1	0.0	10	0.1	0.2	-0.1	.93	0.0	0.1	0.6	0.1	0.74	0.2		0
12 Seasons				-157.1	-15.9	5123	-13.4	73.2	-86.6	.97	-15.7	1.9	-151.3	-15.4	0.95	-186.1	1.32	4

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	SBH	PO	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1973	21	CHW	AL	5	43%	49	2	3	40%	2	3	0	0	0	1	7	35%	10	7	3	2	2	0	8	4	4
1974	22	CHW	AL	10	31%	219	3	4	43%	3	4	0	0	2	10	10	45%	39	25	13	6	2	4	19	7	12
1975	23	CHW	AL	15	26%	271	2	4	33%	2	4	0	0	0	6	13	45%	31	23	7	4	2	2	23	4	17
1976	24	CHW	AL	7	23%	237	3	5	38%	2	5	0	1	1	5	16	28%	38	31	6	6	5	1	17	6	10
1977	25	NYY	AL	9	31%	179	1	1	50%	1	1	0	0	0	8	8	40%	42	30	11	4	2	2	22	7	14
1978	26	NYY	AL	4	31%	132	3	1	75%	3	1	0	0	3	1	9	33%	19	15	4	3	3	0	11	4	7
1979	27	NYY	AL	4	33%	172	0	0		0	0	0	0	1	2	15	36%	30	21	9	7	5	2	18	8	9
1980	28	NYY	AL	6	30%	243	0	3	0%	0	3	0	0	0	5	11	39%	31	23	8	5	3	2	18	6	11
1981	29	NYY	AL	4	19%	83	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	6	7	17%	13	10	3	3	3	0	2	1	0
1982	30	TOT	AL	6	33%	112	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	1	6	46%	14	9	5	3	2	1	7	2	5
1982	30	NYY	AL	4	31%	53	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	1	2	46%	6	4	2	1	1	0	4	1	3
1982	30	TEX	AL	2	34%	59	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	4	46%	8	5	3	2	1	1	3	1	2
1983	31	TEX	AL	3	28%	177	3	7	30%	2	7	1	0	0	5	7	34%	27	22	5	6	4	2	14	4	9
1984	32	KCR	AL	0	50%	6	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33%	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	0
12 Seasons				73	29%	1880	17	29	37%	15	29	1	1	7	50	109	37%	295	216	75	51	35	16	159	53	98

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1973	21	CHW	AL	132	29%	29			1	0	0	0	1.54	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	8	2	25%	30	1	3%	17	4	24%	95	11	12%	10	4	40%	6	2	33%	0
1974	22	CHW	AL	552	40%	136			0	0	0	0		5	0	7	3	2	2	3	0	28	23	82%	100	9	9%	49	23	47%	297	46	15%	23	14	61%	15	7	47%	0
1975	23	CHW	AL	662	33%	159			0	0	0	0		3	0	12	2	1	0	3	0	23	15	65%	142	16	11%	83	34	41%	411	59	14%	38	27	71%	30	15	50%	0
1976	24	CHW	AL	627	31%	138			1	0	0	0	1.18	2	0	16	1	1	1	1	0	20	17	85%	122	10	8%	60	28	47%	402	53	13%	32	17	53%	19	14	74%	0
1977	25	NYY	AL	540	44%	118			0	0	0	0		8	1	15	2	6	3	5	0	14	14	100%	101	9	9%	54	30	56%	351	42	12%	28	16	57%	18	12	67%	0
1978	26	NYY	AL	415	50%	92			0	0	0	0		5	0	13	3	2	0	5	0	6	6	100%	78	10	13%	35	14	40%	278	37	13%	22	15	68%	12	7	58%	0
1979	27	NYY	AL	490	44%	99			0	0	0	0		2	0	17	1	1	0	2	0	14	13	93%	97	5	5%	43	21	49%	276	31	11%	25	13	52%	18	14	78%	0
1980	28	NYY	AL	553	38%	128			0	0	0	0		5	0	13	4	1	2	3	1	12	9	75%	90	6	7%	50	20	40%	339	50	15%	37	23	62%	26	12	46%	0
1981	29	NYY	AL	258	39%	54			0	0	0	0		7	0	3	3	4	3	4	0	9	8	89%	49	1	2%	29	12	41%	140	21	15%	13	7	54%	7	5	71%	0
1982	30	TOT	AL	337	42%	59			2	0	0	0	1.29	1	0	5	1	0	0	1	0	10	7	70%	64	9	14%	34	16	47%	205	22	11%	15	7	47%	13	7	54%	0
1982	30	NYY	AL	173	53%	27			1	0	0	0	0.07	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	100%	31	7	23%	20	10	50%	106	9	8%	10	3	30%	10	6	60%	0
1982	30	TEX	AL	164	31%	32			1	0	0	0	2.51	1	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	6	3	50%	33	2	6%	14	6	43%	99	13	13%	5	4	80%	3	1	33%	0
1983	31	TEX	AL	450	32%	99			0	0	0	0		2	0	9	0	2	0	2	0	7	7	100%	77	3	4%	41	21	51%	260	33	13%	22	15	68%	16	10	63%	0
1984	32	KCR	AL	10	70%	3			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0		2	1	50%	0	0		0	0		0
12 Seasons				5026	38%	1114			4	0	0	0	1.32	40	1	118	20	20	11	29	1	151	121	80%	950	79	8%	495	223	45%	3056	406	13%	265	158	60%	180	105	58%	0
MLB Averages					56%																			80%			11%			35%			14%			50%			54%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1973	21	40	132	117	17	29	2	0	0	10	2	3	10	18	.248	.308	.265	.573	60	31	1	1	2	2	0
1974	22	194	684	613	72	165	17	3	5	55	5	7	38	66	.269	.314	.331	.645	83	203	10	4	25	4	0
1975	23	351	1346	1215	124	324	46	7	8	113	7	11	74	114	.267	.308	.336	.644	82	408	26	4	40	13	3
1976	24	509	1972	1777	168	462	64	11	10	165	10	16	117	159	.260	.305	.325	.631	80	578	36	6	57	15	6
1977	25	667	2512	2254	222	580	82	15	18	214	11	17	156	187	.257	.304	.331	.635	80	746	45	7	71	24	6
1978	26	790	2927	2633	262	672	93	16	23	254	14	18	179	211	.255	.302	.329	.631	79	866	55	9	77	29	7
1979	27	931	3417	3064	309	771	107	18	25	286	14	18	216	241	.252	.300	.323	.622	76	989	60	10	90	37	8
1980	28	1072	3970	3553	366	899	133	20	30	338	14	21	264	278	.253	.304	.327	.631	77	1162	66	12	99	42	9
1981	29	1145	4228	3780	386	953	144	20	37	365	14	22	283	295	.252	.303	.330	.633	79	1248	67	14	107	44	9
1982	30	1250	4565	4086	413	1012	154	21	38	388	14	22	304	316	.248	.299	.324	.622	75	1322	76	14	114	47	9
1983	31	1381	5015	4503	449	1111	169	23	40	422	17	29	327	347	.247	.297	.321	.618	74	1446	79	15	121	49	9
1984	32	1392	5025	4512	451	1114	169	23	40	423	17	29	328	349	.247	.297	.321	.618	74	1449	79	15	121	49	9

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1973	21	40	131	118	18	30	2	0	0	11	2	10	18	.254	.313	.271	.584	10	40
1974	22	154	540	505	61	145	16	3	5	50	3	30	48	.287	.330	.360	.690	60	154
1975	23	158	659	612	56	166	30	4	3	62	2	38	48	.271	.310	.348	.658	67	157
1976	24	159	630	579	51	152	20	4	2	61	3	47	45	.263	.319	.321	.640	59	158
1977	25	158	531	481	57	122	19	4	8	52	1	40	28	.254	.307	.360	.667	54	158
1978	26	123	420	388	47	101	12	1	5	47	3	25	24	.260	.305	.335	.640	40	123
1979	27	142	483	436	49	102	14	2	2	33	0	38	30	.234	.292	.289	.581	37	141
1980	28	141	552	495	61	134	27	2	5	56	0	50	37	.271	.337	.364	.701	61	141
1981	29	111	390	352	36	90	18	0	12	48	0	32	26	.256	.321	.409	.730	45	73
1982	30	105	334	309	29	62	11	1	1	25	0	22	21	.201	.251	.252	.504	20	105
1983	31	131	448	421	39	103	16	2	2	37	3	24	31	.245	.286	.306	.592	37	131
1984	32	11	10	9	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	.333	.400	.333	.733	1	11
12 Seasons		1433	5128	4705	506	1210	185	23	45	483	17	357	358	.257	.309	.335	.644	491	1392
162 Game Avg.		162	580	532	57	137	21	3	5	55	2	40	40	.257	.309	.335	.644	56	1392

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame 1990 BBWAA ( 0.7%)	All-Star Games 1975 * 1980 (SS) 1981 (SS)	Awards (yr lg award) 1978 AL Babe Ruth Award 1978 ML WS MVP	Defensive WAR† s c a p y 1977 AL 1.2 (8th) 1978 AL 1.6 (3rd) 1979 AL 2.2 (3rd) 1980 AL 1.9 (4th) Career 5.6 (235th)
Games Played s c a p y 1975 AL 157 (8th) 1976 AL 158 (7th)	At Bats s c a p y 1975 AL 602 (5th)	Plate Appearances s c a p y 1975 AL 662 (10th)	Doubles s c a p y 1975 AL 29 (10th)
Singles s c a p y 1975 AL 123 (9th)	Sacrifice Hits s c a p y 1974 AL 23 (1st) 1975 AL 15 (7th) 1976 AL 17 (4th) 1977 AL 14 (7th) 1979 AL 13 (8th)	Sacrifice Flies s c a p y 1975 AL 9 (5th) 1977 AL 9 (6th) 1979 AL 8 (9th)	AB per SO s c a p y 1975 AL 12.5 (7th) 1976 AL 12.5 (7th) 1977 AL 17.0 (3rd) 1980 AL 13.2 (9th)
Outs Made s c a p y 1975 AL 487 (1st)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Batting - 5 (1764), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 23 (733), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 14 (1169), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Batters

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Most Similar by Ages

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Luis Aparicio (982) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Luis Aparicio (978) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Cesar Izturis (969) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Cesar Izturis (966) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Roy McMillan (964) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Roy McMillan (964) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Buddy Kerr (983) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Roy McMillan (964) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Leo Durocher (955) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Leo Durocher (960) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Leo Durocher (950) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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