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Player Notes: � Topps All-Star Rookie (2B) in 1967 ... Hit for the cycle on May 20, 1970 ... The Minnesota Twins retired his #29 on July 19, 1987 ... The Los Angeles Angels retired his #29 on August 6, 1991

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Year	Team	League	Lvl	Org	Unif	Pos	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	XBH	PA	babip	ISO	SecA	wOBA	BB%	SO%	K-BB	HR%	AB/HR	XBH%
1964	Melbourne Twins	Cocoa	Rk		-		18	37	123	17	40	5	3	0	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.325	.325	.415	.740	51	8	123	.325	.090	.089	.326	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.00
1965	Orlando	FSL	A+		-		19	125	439	57	133	20	8	1	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.303	.303	.392	.695	172	29	439	.301	.089	.089	.307	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.23	439.00	21.80
1966	Wilson	Caro	A+		-		20	112	383	64	112	19	3	1	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.292	.292	.366	.658	140	23	383	.291	.074	.073	.290	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.26	383.00	20.54
1967	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	2b	21	137	514	66	150	22	7	8	51	5	9	37	91	2	7	1	4	12	.292	.341	.409	.750	210	37	561	.341	.117	.181	.336	6.60	16.22	2.46	1.43	64.25	24.67
1968	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	2b	22	127	461	46	126	27	2	1	42	12	4	26	71	1	2	2	1	11	.273	.312	.347	.659	160	30	492	.320	.074	.148	.301	5.28	14.43	2.73	0.20	461.00	23.81
1969	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	2b	23	123	458	79	152	30	4	8	56	19	8	37	72	3	6	0	0	7	.332	.386	.467	.853	214	42	504	.381	.135	.240	.387	7.34	14.29	1.95	1.59	57.25	27.63
1970	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	2b	24	51	191	27	70	12	3	4	28	4	6	11	28	2	0	0	0	1	.366	.407	.524	.931	100	19	204	.415	.158	.204	.414	5.39	13.73	2.55	1.96	47.75	27.14
1971	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	2b	25	147	577	88	177	16	10	2	48	6	7	45	81	1	6	3	1	23	.307	.356	.380	.736	219	28	632	.352	.073	.149	.336	7.12	12.82	1.80	0.32	288.50	15.82
1972	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	2b	26	142	535	61	170	21	6	0	51	12	6	43	60	2	9	2	9	11	.318	.369	.379	.748	203	27	591	.356	.061	.153	.339	7.28	10.15	1.40	0.00	0.00	15.88
1973	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	2b	27	149	580	98	203	30	11	6	62	41	16	62	55	2	7	6	9	16	.350	.411	.471	.882	273	47	657	.375	.121	.271	.394	9.44	8.37	0.89	0.91	96.67	23.15
1974	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	2b	28	153	599	86	218	30	5	3	55	38	16	74	49	1	13	3	9	17	.364	.433	.446	.879	267	38	690	.391	.082	.242	.401	10.72	7.10	0.66	0.43	199.67	17.43
1975	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	2b	29	143	535	89	192	24	4	14	80	35	9	64	40	1	7	10	18	10	.359	.421	.497	.918	266	42	617	.363	.138	.307	.407	10.37	6.48	0.63	2.27	38.21	21.88
1976	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	1b	30	156	605	97	200	29	12	9	90	49	22	67	52	1	8	6	14	12	.331	.395	.463	.858	280	50	687	.347	.132	.288	.387	9.75	7.57	0.78	1.31	67.22	25.00
1977	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	1b	31	155	616	128	239	38	16	14	100	23	13	69	55	3	1	5	15	6	.388	.449	.570	1.019	351	68	694	.408	.182	.310	.440	9.94	7.93	0.80	2.02	44.00	28.45
1978	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	1b	32	152	564	85	188	26	10	5	70	27	7	78	62	1	2	6	19	18	.333	.411	.441	.852	249	41	651	.364	.108	.282	.378	11.98	9.52	0.79	0.77	112.80	21.81
1979	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	29	1b	33	110	409	78	130	15	3	3	44	18	8	73	46	0	8	3	7	9	.318	.419	.391	.810	160	21	493	.350	.073	.276	.369	14.81	9.33	0.63	0.61	136.33	16.15
1980	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	29	1b	34	144	540	74	179	34	7	3	59	23	15	59	38	1	9	3	7	15	.331	.396	.437	.833	236	44	612	.351	.106	.230	.373	9.64	6.21	0.64	0.49	180.00	24.58
1981	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	29	1b	35	93	364	57	111	17	1	2	21	16	9	45	45	0	10	2	7	8	.305	.380	.374	.754	136	20	421	.342	.069	.212	.344	10.69	10.69	1.00	0.48	182.00	18.02
1982	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	29	1b	36	138	523	88	167	25	5	3	44	10	17	67	49	2	16	4	5	9	.319	.396	.403	.799	211	33	612	.345	.084	.199	.361	10.95	8.01	0.73	0.49	174.33	19.76
1983	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	29	1b	37	129	472	66	160	24	2	2	44	6	7	57	48	1	3	3	9	15	.339	.409	.411	.820	194	28	536	.372	.072	.191	.368	10.63	8.96	0.84	0.37	236.00	17.50
1984	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	29	1b	38	93	329	42	97	8	1	3	31	4	3	40	39	0	5	4	1	8	.295	.367	.353	.720	116	12	378	.323	.058	.182	.331	10.58	10.32	0.98	0.79	109.67	12.37
1985	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	29	1b	39	127	443	69	124	17	3	2	39	5	5	64	47	1	9	1	9	8	.280	.371	.345	.716	153	22	518	.309	.065	.210	.325	12.36	9.07	0.73	0.39	221.50	17.74
MLB Totals - 19 Season(s)Filter								2469	9315	1424	3053	445	112	92	1015	353	187	1018	1028	25	128	64	144	216	.328	.393	.429	.822	3998	649	10550	.359	.101	.229	.000	9.65	9.74	1.01	0.87	101.25	21.26
Minor League Totals - 3 Season(s)Filter								274	945	138	285	44	14	2	103	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.302	.302	.384	.686	363	60	945	.300	.082	.083	.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.21	472.50	21.05
A+ Totals - 2 Season(s)Filter								237	822	121	245	39	11	2	82	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.298	.298	.380	.678	312	52	822	.296	.082	.082	.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.24	411.00	21.22
Rk Totals - 1 Season(s)Filter								37	123	17	40	5	3	0	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.325	.325	.415	.740	51	8	123	.325	.090	.089	.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.00
Minnesota Twins Totals - 12 Season(s)Filter								1635	6235	950	2085	305	90	74	733	271	123	613	716	20	68	44	99	144	.334	.393	.448	.841	2792	469	6980	.366	.114	.235	.000	8.78	10.26	1.17	1.06	84.26	22.49
California Angels Totals - 7 Season(s)Filter								834	3080	474	968	140	22	18	282	82	64	405	312	5	60	20	45	72	.314	.393	.392	.785	1206	180	3570	.343	.078	.215	.000	11.34	8.74	0.77	0.50	171.11	18.60
Average MLB - Per 162 games								162	611	93	200	29	7	6	67	23	12	67	67	2	8	4	9	14	.328	.393	.429	.822	262	43	692	.359	.101	.229	.000	9.65	9.74	1.01	0.87	101.25	21.26
Average Minor - Per 162 games								162	559	82	169	26	8	1	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.302	.302	.384	.686	215	35	559	.300	.082	.083	.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.21	472.50	21.05

Fielding Statistics

Year	Team Name	Lg	Level	Org	Age	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	TC	TSC	FPct	RFg	RFi	SB	CS	SB%	PB	GP	Pos-Share	Tm-Share
1967	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	21	2B	134	-	-	289	314	15	60	618	603	.976	4.50	-	-	-	--	-	137	97.8	82.7
1968	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	22	2B	117	-	-	262	280	18	48	560	542	.968	4.63	-	-	-	--	-	127	92.1	72.2
1968	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	22	SS	4	-	-	4	5	-	2	9	9	1.000	2.25	-	-	-	--	-	127	3.1	2.5
1969	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	23	2B	118	-	-	244	302	17	80	563	546	.970	4.63	-	-	-	--	-	123	95.9	72.8
1970	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	24	2B	45	-	-	73	122	8	26	203	195	.961	4.33	-	-	-	--	-	51	88.2	27.8
1970	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	24	1B	1	-	-	6	-	-	-	6	6	1.000	6.00	-	-	-	--	-	51	2.0	0.6
1971	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	25	2B	142	-	-	321	329	16	76	666	650	.976	4.58	-	-	-	--	-	147	96.6	88.8
1971	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	25	3B	2	-	-	3	2	-	-	5	5	1.000	2.50	-	-	-	--	-	147	1.4	1.3
1972	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	26	2B	139	-	1184	331	378	16	85	725	709	.978	5.10	0.60	-	-	--	-	142	97.9	90.3
1973	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	27	2B	147	-	1241	383	413	13	96	809	796	.984	5.41	0.64	-	-	--	-	149	98.7	90.7
1974	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	28	2B	148	-	-	375	416	33	114	824	791	.960	5.34	-	-	-	--	-	153	96.7	91.4
1975	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	2B	123	-	-	285	369	18	79	672	654	.973	5.32	-	-	-	--	-	143	86.0	77.4
1975	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	1B	14	-	-	123	8	3	10	134	131	.978	9.36	-	-	-	--	-	143	9.8	8.8
1975	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	DH	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	--	-	143	1.4	1.3
1976	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	30	1B	152	-	-	1394	108	16	149	1518	1502	.989	9.88	-	-	-	--	-	156	97.4	93.8
1976	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	30	2B	7	-	-	4	2	-	-	6	6	1.000	0.86	-	-	-	--	-	156	4.5	4.3
1977	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	31	1B	151	-	-	1459	121	10	161	1590	1580	.994	10.46	-	-	-	--	-	155	97.4	93.8
1977	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	31	2B	4	-	-	4	3	-	-	7	7	1.000	1.75	-	-	-	--	-	155	2.6	2.5
1977	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	31	DH	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	--	-	155	0.6	0.6
1978	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	32	1B	148	-	-	1362	105	16	134	1483	1467	.989	9.91	-	-	-	--	-	152	97.4	91.4
1978	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	32	2B	4	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	1	1.000	0.25	-	-	-	--	-	152	2.6	2.5
1978	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	32	OF	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	--	-	152	0.7	0.6
1979	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	33	1B	103	-	-	804	55	10	101	869	859	.988	8.34	-	-	-	--	-	110	93.6	63.6
1979	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	33	DH	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	--	-	110	5.5	3.7
1980	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	34	1B	103	-	-	897	57	6	82	960	954	.994	9.26	-	-	-	--	-	144	71.5	64.4
1980	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	34	DH	32	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	--	-	144	22.2	20.0
1981	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	35	1B	90	-	-	877	60	5	90	942	937	.995	10.41	-	-	-	--	-	93	96.8	81.8
1981	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	35	DH	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	--	-	93	2.2	1.8
1982	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	36	1B	134	-	-	1339	94	12	115	1445	1433	.992	10.69	-	-	-	--	-	138	97.1	82.7
1983	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	37	1B	89	-	-	890	42	6	94	938	932	.994	10.47	-	-	-	--	-	129	69.0	54.9
1983	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	37	DH	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	--	-	129	18.6	14.8
1983	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	37	2B	2	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	1	1.000	0.50	-	-	-	--	-	129	1.6	1.2
1984	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	38	1B	83	-	-	724	59	15	73	798	783	.981	9.43	-	-	-	--	-	93	89.2	51.2
1984	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	38	DH	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	--	-	93	1.1	0.6
1985	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	39	1B	116	-	-	1055	65	7	121	1127	1120	.994	9.66	-	-	-	--	-	127	91.3	71.6
MLB Totals for 1B - 12 season(s)				-	�	1B	1184	-	-	10930	774	106	1130	11810	11704	.991	9.89	-	-	-	--	-	1184	0.0	0.0
MLB Totals for 2B - 13 season(s)				-	�	2B	1130	-	2425	2573	2928	154	664	5655	5501	.973	4.87	2.27	-	-	--	-	1130	0.0	0.0
MLB Totals for DH - 7 season(s)				-	�	DH	68	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	--	-	68	0.0	0.0
MLB Totals for SS - 1 season(s)				-	�	SS	4	-	-	4	5	-	2	9	9	1.000	2.25	-	-	-	--	-	4	0.0	0.0
MLB Totals for 3B - 1 season(s)				-	�	3B	2	-	-	3	2	-	-	5	5	1.000	2.50	-	-	-	--	-	2	0.0	0.0
MLB Totals for OF - 1 season(s)				-	�	OF	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	--	-	1	0.0	0.0

Fielding Statistics - Position Grid

Year	Team Name	League	Level	Org	Age	P	C	1B	2B	SS	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH
1967	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	21	-	-	-	134	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	22	-	-	-	117	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
1969	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	23	-	-	-	118	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	24	-	-	1	45	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1971	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	25	-	-	-	142	-	2	-	-	-	-	-
1972	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	26	-	-	-	139	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1973	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	27	-	-	-	147	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1974	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	28	-	-	-	148	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1975	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	29	-	-	14	123	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
1976	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	30	-	-	152	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1977	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	31	-	-	151	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
1978	Minnesota Twins	AL	MLB	min	32	-	-	148	4	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
1979	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	33	-	-	103	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
1980	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	34	-	-	103	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	32
1981	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	35	-	-	90	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
1982	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	36	-	-	134	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1983	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	37	-	-	89	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	24
1984	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	38	-	-	83	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
1985	California Angels	AL	MLB	cal	39	-	-	116	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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Year	Team	League	Category	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	XBH	PA	babip	ISO	SecA	BB%	SO%	K-BB	HR%	AB/HR	XBH%
1969	Minnesota Twins	Champ. Series	MLB	23	3	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	.071	.133	.071	.204	1	0	15	.100	.000	.071	6.67	26.67	4.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1970	Minnesota Twins	Champ. Series	MLB	24	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	0.00	50.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1979	California Angels	Champ. Series	MLB	33	4	17	4	7	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.412	.412	.588	1.000	10	3	17	.412	.176	.235	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	42.86
1982	California Angels	Champ. Series	MLB	36	5	17	2	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	.176	.333	.235	.568	4	1	21	.231	.059	.353	19.05	19.05	1.00	0.00	0.00	33.33
MLB Playoffs - Championship Series Totals - 4 yrs					14	50	6	11	4	0	0	1	2	0	5	9	0	0	0	0	0	.220	.291	.300	.591	15	4	55	.268	.080	.220	9.09	16.36	1.80	0.00	0.00	36.36

Awards [13]

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Year	Awards (Notes)	# Awards
1967	American League Rookie of the Year	1
1974	American League Player of the Month (May)	1
1975	American League Player of the Week (June 2-June 8)	1
1976	American League Player of the Week (August 30-September 5)	1
1977	American League Most Valuable Player ... American League Player of the Month (September) ... American League Player of the Month (June) ... American League Player of the Week (June 20-June 26) ... Roberto Clemente Award	5
1980	American League Player of the Month (June)	1
1983	American League Player of the Month (May) ... American League Player of the Week (May 2-May 8)	2
1985	American League Player of the Week (July 29-August 4)	1

Roster Transactions

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About Tranx Data

Tranx Date	Pos	Organization	Assignment	40m	Status	Type	Transaction Description	Age	Roster for Current Team
1985-11-12						Free Agent	Granted Free Agency.		�
1983-11-22						Contract	Signed as Free Agent by Angels.		�
1983-11-07						Free Agent	Granted Free Agency.		�
1979-02-03						Trade	Traded by Twins to Angels for Brad Havens, Paul Hartzell, Dave Engle and Ken Landreaux.		�
1964-06-24						Contract	Signed as undrafted amateur Free Agent by Twins.		�

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Year	Team Name	Payroll	Age	Salary	Serv	MLB Rk	Tm Rk	Centile	Above	League Avg	League Min	Career*	Contracts
1964	Minnesota Twins	-	18	5,000	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5,000	Signing Bonus as an amateur free agent
1985	California Angels	Team Payroll	39	875,000	-	61	4	90	++	370,780	60,000	880,000

* Career earnings are a simple calculation of available yearly salaries listed here. They include only base salary and draft signing bonus. Minor league salaries are excluded. The value is not meant to reflect a player's actual career earnings.
* League minimum salaries are displayed in red

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Year	Team	Lg	Level	Category	Org	Age	Job	G	W	L	Pct	GBL	Rank	Manager/HC	Playoffs
1992	California Angels	AL	MLB	MLB	cal	46	Hitting Coach	162	72	90	.444	24.0	6	John Wathan,Buck Rodgers
1993	California Angels	AL	MLB	MLB	cal	47	Hitting Coach	162	71	91	.438	23.0	5	Buck Rodgers
1994	California Angels	AL	MLB	MLB	cal	48	Hitting Coach	115	47	68	.409	5.5	4	Marcel Lachemann,Buck Rodgers
1995	California Angels	AL	MLB	MLB	cal	49	Hitting Coach	145	78	67	.538	1.0	2	Marcel Lachemann
1996	California Angels	AL	MLB	MLB	cal	50	Hitting Coach	161	70	91	.435	19.5	4	John McNamara,Joe Maddon,Marcel Lachemann
1997	Anaheim Angels	AL	MLB	MLB	ana	51	Hitting Coach	162	84	78	.519	6.0	2	Terry Collins
1998	Anaheim Angels	AL	MLB	MLB	ana	52	Hitting Coach	162	85	77	.525	3.0	2	Terry Collins
1999	Anaheim Angels	AL	MLB	MLB	ana	53	Hitting Coach	162	70	92	.432	25.0	4	Terry Collins,Joe Maddon
2000	Milwaukee Brewers	NL	MLB	MLB	mil	54	Hitting Coach	162	73	89	.451	22.0	3	Dave Lopes
2001	Milwaukee Brewers	NL	MLB	MLB	mil	55	Hitting Coach	162	68	94	.420	25.0	4	Dave Lopes

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Rod CarewTrack this Player High Level: MLB Stat Years: 1964-1985 MLB Years: 1967-1985
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