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Don Hurst	Bats: Left Throws: Left Height: 6' 0'' Weight: 215   Born: August 12, 1905 in Usa, KY, MAYSVILLE

Ratings - Batting     Help
								Contact			Power			Gap			Eye			Ks
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Salary				vL	vR	OA	vL	vR	OA	vL	vR	OA	vL	vR	OA	vL	vR	OA
1930	24	NYA	AL	$ 300,000				61	61	54	47	55	53	51	67	62	44	60	55	69	74	73
1931	25	NYA	AL	$ 2,692,857				7	7	6	5	6	6	6	7	7	5	7	6	8	8	8
1932	26	NYA	AL	$ 2,692,857				7	7	6	5	6	6	6	7	7	4	6	6	7	8	8
1933	27	NYA	AL	$ 2,692,857				7	7	6	5	6	6	6	8	8	4	6	5	7	8	8
1934	28	NYA	AL	$ 5,000,000				6	6	5	4	6	5	7	8	8	4	5	5	7	7	7
1935	29	NYA	AL	$ 5,000,000				6	6	5	4	6	5	7	9	8	4	5	5	7	7	7
1936	30	NYA	AL	$ 5,000,000				6	6	5	5	6	5	7	8	8	4	5	5	7	8	7
1937	31	BSN	NL	$ 5,000,000				6	6	5	5	6	6	7	8	8	4	5	5	7	8	7
1938	32	DET	AL	$ 5,000,000				7	7	6	6	7	7	7	8	8	4	5	5	6	7	7
1939	33	NYA	AL	$ 5,000,000				6	6	5	6	7	7	6	7	7	4	5	5	5	5	5
1940	34	CIN	NL	$ 4,275,334				6	6	5	6	7	7	6	7	7	4	5	5	4	5	5
1941	35	BSN	NL	$ 4,275,334				6	6	5	6	7	7	6	7	7	4	5	5	4	5	5
1942	36	CIN	NL					5	5	4	6	6	6	4	5	5	4	5	5	4	4	4
OOTP6 Min Ratings								5	5	4	4	6	5	4	5	5	4	5	5	4	4	4
OOTP6 Max Ratings				$ 5,000,000				61	61	54	47	55	53	51	67	62	44	60	55	69	74	73

Batting Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won Silver Slugger or Bronze Rookie.
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	XR	OWS
1930	24	NYA	AL	157	577	109	177	33	2	18	88	0	0	59	41	.307	.371	.464	.835	90.1	18.5
1931	25	NYA	AL	156	573	81	162	40	4	14	113	0	1	67	33	.283	.356	.440	.795	84.6	14.3
1932	26	NYA	AL	138	499	78	155	35	3	24	123	0	1	60	39	.311	.382	.537	.919	93.2	17.6
1933	27	NYA	AL	147	560	89	166	25	2	23	113	3	0	58	51	.296	.360	.471	.831	89.3	13.8
1934	28	NYA	AL	87	281	44	82	27	1	7	62	0	0	26	29	.292	.349	.470	.819	41.8	6.6
1935	29	NYA	AL	101	377	46	98	29	0	7	74	0	0	27	38	.260	.306	.393	.698	43.8	5.0
		AAA		31	122	20	32	8	0	9	24	1	0	9	13	.262	.313	.549	.862	20.8
1936	30	NYA	AL	73	248	34	62	15	3	8	46	0	1	24	34	.250	.313	.431	.744	32.8	4.7
		AAA		57	219	39	64	14	2	13	47	2	0	30	31	.292	.378	.553	.930	44.1
1937	31	AAA		107	110	28	39	8	0	11	27	1	1	14	7	.355	.427	.727	1.155	29.4
1938	32	DET	AL	153	544	66	146	28	2	15	70	0	0	51	55	.268	.332	.410	.742	71.1	8.2
1939	33	NYA	AL	101	125	18	35	2	2	7	38	0	0	15	22	.280	.352	.496	.848	21.4	4.2
1940	34	CIN	NL	145	461	67	128	32	1	21	83	0	0	49	112	.278	.346	.488	.834	72.9	12.1
1941	35	BSN	NL	137	432	58	105	25	3	19	60	0	0	34	101	.243	.301	.447	.747	55.2	8.4
1942	36	CIN	NL	45	151	17	40	6	2	7	25	0	0	9	38	.265	.306	.470	.776	20.3	3.7
		AAA		83	322	61	96	23	3	23	77	0	2	26	71	.298	.351	.602	.953	62.8
12 Years Sim				1440	4828	707	1356	297	25	170	895	3	3	479	593	.281	.344	.458	.803	716.5	117.1
4 Years AAA				278	773	148	231	53	5	56	175	4	3	79	122	.299	.364	.598	.962	157.1
162 Game Average					543	79	152	33	2	19	100	0	0	53	66	.281	.344	.458	.803	80.6
Career Highs				157	577	109	177	40	4	24	123	3	1	67	112	.311	.382	.537	.919	93.2

Career Batting Splits     Help
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Category	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	XR
vs RH		3797	583	1093	242	20	145	734	0	2	386	483	.288	.352	.477	.828	617.9
vs LH		1031	124	263	55	5	25	161	3	1	93	110	.255	.317	.391	.708	127.9
Home	685	2261	340	642	133	9	81	395	1	1	245	260	.284	.353	.458	.812	359.0
Away	755	2567	367	714	164	16	89	500	2	2	234	333	.278	.336	.459	.795	386.8
RISP		1424	0	406	82	9	50	677	0	0	154	176	.285	.349	.461	.809	227.5
Pinch Hitting		208	29	52	10	2	4	44	0	0	19	42	.250	.310	.375	.685	24.5
Close/Late		616	64	184	41	4	15	113	0	0	56	85	.299	.354	.451	.805	94.8
Mar/Apr	254	865	110	245	62	4	20	146	0	0	84	122	.283	.343	.434	.777	126.1
May	293	997	140	280	57	10	33	192	0	0	85	130	.281	.335	.457	.793	149.0
June	246	822	126	211	55	4	26	154	0	1	99	106	.257	.338	.428	.766	118.9
July	222	766	104	227	50	2	33	133	3	1	71	81	.296	.353	.496	.850	129.2
August	224	742	120	199	42	2	33	143	0	1	86	94	.268	.345	.464	.809	117.6
Sep/Oct	201	636	107	194	31	3	25	127	0	0	54	60	.305	.358	.481	.839	104.9

Fielding Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won Gold Glove.
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Pos	G	GS	IP	PO	A	E	DP	FPct	RF					DWS
1930	24	NYA	AL	1B	151	145	1269.7	1741	130	13	177	.993	13.26					2.8
				RF	1	0	2.7	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00					0.0
1931	25	NYA	AL	1B	153	148	1307.7	1631	142	11	170	.994	12.20					3.4
1932	26	NYA	AL	1B	135	133	1155.3	1389	106	19	139	.987	11.65					2.1
1933	27	NYA	AL	1B	145	141	1241.7	1509	116	9	129	.994	11.78					2.5
1934	28	NYA	AL	1B	74	70	597.0	707	55	6	60	.992	11.49					1.3
1935	29	NYA	AL	1B	101	97	867.0	1060	82	8	116	.993	11.85					1.5
1936	30	NYA	AL	1B	63	58	511.7	635	59	2	76	.997	12.21					1.1
1938	32	DET	AL	1B	149	138	1233.3	1428	103	17	168	.989	11.17					3.1
1939	33	NYA	AL	1B	22	13	128.0	152	16	2	14	.988	11.81					0.3
1940	34	CIN	NL	1B	140	113	1027.7	1284	83	6	106	.996	11.97					2.6
1941	35	BSN	NL	1B	124	101	916.7	1129	97	10	128	.992	12.04					1.7
1942	36	CIN	NL	1B	41	40	343.0	427	31	6	47	.987	12.02					0.7
				1B	1298	1197	10598.6	13092	1020	109	1330	.992	11.98					23.1
				RF	1	0	2.7	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00					0.0
Career Totals					1299	1197	10601.3	13092	1020	109	1330	.992	11.98					23.1
Career Highs					153	148	1307.7	1741	142	19	177	.997	13.23

Post-Season Batting Stats     Help
Bold lines indicate player won Post Season MVP Award.
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
1930	24	NYA	AL	5	21	2	7	2	0	1	4	0	0	1	1	.333	.364	.571	.935
1932	26	NYA	AL	5	22	5	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	2	.273	.304	.318	.623
1939	33	NYA	AL	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333
Career Post-Season Batting				13	45	7	13	3	0	1	7	0	0	3	3	.289	.333	.422	.756

Batting Leaderboards     Help

Top 10 finishes. Stats are Year-Rank-Value. League leaders are in bold. (*) indicates hit-less at-bats added to meet minimum plate appearances. Season Rankings are League Based.

Slugging Pct 1932-6-.537 1940-4-.488 OPS 1932-7-.919 1940-8-.834 Games 1930-1-157 1931-3-156 Runs 1930-9-109 Doubles 1940-8-32 Homeruns 1930-10-18 1932-5-24 1933-6-23 1940-5-21 1941-6-19 RBIs 1931-9-113 1932-3-123 1933-5-113 1940-7-83 Strikeouts 1940-3-112 1941-4-101

Black Ink Test: 1    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 42)    Gray Ink Test: 49    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 203)    Hall of Fame Standards: 20    (Avg Batter in HOF ~ 64)

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History

Had first career hit (double) on 4/1/1930, off Roy Moore (SLC)

Hit first career homerun on 4/10/1930, off Wilcy Moore (CHA)

Had 5 hits with 3 RBI against Boston (A) on 5/19/1930

Won Player of the Week award on 6/8/1930, hitting .600 with 1 HR, 8 RBI

Had 5 hits with 3 RBI against New York (G) on 7/7/1930

1/31/1931: Gets a new one-year contract worth $2,692,857 through salary arbitration

1/31/1932: Gets a new one-year contract worth $2,692,857 through salary arbitration

Drove in 6 runs against New York (G) on 4/10/1932

Had 5 hits with 3 RBI against Cincinnati on 5/5/1932

Won Player of the Week award on 5/12/1932, hitting .542 with 1 HR, 9 RBI

Injured on 5/27/1932 with a Pulled Groin Muscle, out for 1-2 weeks

Injured on 6/8/1932 with a Strained Thigh Muscle, out for one week

Won Player of the Week award on 7/21/1932, hitting .417 with 3 HR, 7 RBI

1/31/1933: Gets a new one-year contract worth $2,692,857 through salary arbitration

Drove in 6 runs against Cleveland on 9/5/1933

Won Player of the Week award on 9/8/1933, hitting .440 with 3 HR, 13 RBI

10/15/1933: Signed a contract extension with New York (A), $5,000,000 per year, for 6 years

Had 25-game hitting streak snapped on 5/20/1934

Injured on 5/26/1934 with a Strained Groin Muscle, out for one week

Injured on 4/10/1936 with a Pulled Hip Muscle, out for 6 days

Traded from New York (A) to Boston (N) on 2/21/1937 (Going to BSN: 1B Don Hurst. Going to NYA: P Ed Fallenstein)

Traded from Boston (N) to Detroit on 2/7/1938 (Going to DET: 1B Don Hurst. Going to BSN: 1B Ripper Collins)

Won Player of the Week award on 4/14/1938, hitting .542 with 1 HR, 5 RBI

Traded from Detroit to New York (A) on 2/1/1939 (Going to NYA: 1B Don Hurst. Going to DET: P George Blaeholder)

Signed as a free agent by Cincinnati on 2/2/1940 to a 2-year deal worth $4,275,334 per year

Traded from Cincinnati to Boston (N) on 2/13/1941 (Going to BSN: 1B Don Hurst, 2B Leo Norris. Going to CIN: 2B Roy Schalk)

Signed as a free agent by Cincinnati on 2/10/1942 to a 1-year deal worth $2,048,897 per year

Released by Cincinnati on 10/22/1942

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