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Name	Team	Age
Gator Burton	Retired (1978, Age 34)	60
Drafted	Position	Bats/Throws
Round 3, Pick 37 (1963)	LF	L/L
League	Option Years	Majors Service Time
Sam Crawford League	0	12 years (50 games)
Total Rating	Arm	Range
B	C	B-
Contact vs R	Contact vs L	Speed
B-	B	A
Power vs R	Power vs L	Bunting
B	C+	D+
Endurance	Velocity	Control
B-	D-	D+
Leadership	Mentor vs RHP	Mentor vs LHP
D-	C+	C+
Health	Injured Days	Birthday
A+	0	12/22/1943
WS Rings	WS Appearances	LCS Appearances
1	1	2
Alt Pos (LF)	Alt Pos (RF)	Alt Pos (---)
A+ (98.4 %)	A- (76.2 %)	F  (0.0 %)

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Year

Type

Chances

Active

GS

Injured

Contact vs R

Power vs R

Contact vs L

Power vs L

Speed

Arm

Range

Total

1963

Minors

56.00

3 / 4

9 / 9

8 / 8

13 / 13

1 / 4

7 / 7

11 / 11

52 / 56

1964

Minors

66.00

9 / 12

8 / 9

6 / 9

5 / 6

4 / 8

16 / 16

6 / 6

54 / 66

1965

Minors

17.00

0 / 3

0 / 1

1 / 1

1 / 1

1 / 5

4 / 5

1 / 1

8 / 17

1965

Majors

9.81

0 / 0

1 / 1

0 / 0

1 / 2

0 / 3

2 / 2

1 / 1

5 / 9

1966

Minors

6.00

0 / 0

3 / 3

1 / 1

0 / 0

0 / 1

0 / 0

1 / 1

5 / 6

1966

Majors

17.26

2 / 2

2 / 2

3 / 3

1 / 1

0 / 4

3 / 3

2 / 2

13 / 17

1967

Majors

51.28

4 / 9

1 / 6

6 / 9

3 / 3

1 / 5

7 / 10

7 / 9

29 / 51

1968

Majors

17.73

0 / 1

0 / 3

0 / 3

1 / 3

1 / 4

2 / 2

1 / 1

5 / 17

1969

Majors

18.74

2 / 4

3 / 8

1 / 2

0 / 0

0 / 2

0 / 1

0 / 1

6 / 18

1970

Majors

21.03

0 / 1

2 / 7

1 / 4

0 / 4

0 / 1

0 / 2

1 / 2

4 / 21

1971

Majors

51.80

162

80

0

0 / 4

2 / 9

3 / 9

0 / 6

1 / 8

1 / 6

3 / 9

10 / 51

1972

Majors

72.28

162

150

0

0 / 7

2 / 15

1 / 10

1 / 10

0 / 9

0 / 7

4 / 14

8 / 72

1973

Majors

50.86

162

91

0

0 / 9

1 / 10

0 / 3

1 / 7

0 / 7

1 / 11

0 / 3

3 / 50

1974

Majors

46.81

162

70

0

0 / 9

0 / 4

0 / 5

1 / 5

1 / 7

1 / 10

0 / 6

3 / 46

1975

Majors

72.17

162

132

0

0 / 11

1 / 11

0 / 7

1 / 8

0 / 6

0 / 15

0 / 14

2 / 72

1976

Majors

69.18

162

115

0

0 / 6

0 / 10

0 / 9

0 / 6

0 / 6

0 / 16

0 / 16

0 / 69

1977

Majors

41.28

162

46

0

-4 / 3

-3 / 5

-4 / 9

-7 / 7

-1 / 4

-3 / 7

-3 / 6

-25 / 41

1978

Majors

9.34

34

13

0

-6 / 1

-5 / 1

-3 / 0

-3 / 0

-6 / 3

-3 / 3

-2 / 1

-28 / 9

Total

1168

697

0

10 / 86

27 / 114

24 / 92

19 / 82

3 / 87

38 / 123

33 / 104

154 / 688

Career Transactions

Date	Transaction
1978-11-01	Gator Burton has retired from the Free Agency Pool
1978-05-17	The Minnesota LG Twins have waived Gator Burton.
1978-05-09	The Minnesota LG Twins have promoted Guillermo Wheelock to the major league team. The Minnesota LG Twins have designated Gator Burton for assignment.
1976-04-19	The Detroit Devil Dawgs have renamed Gator Bruton to Gator Burton.
1976-03-13	The Detroit BOHEMIANS have renamed Gator Brown to Gator Bruton.
1976-03-03	The Detroit BOHEMIANS have renamed Gator Morris to Gator Brown.
1975-04-01	The Detroit BOHEMIANS have renamed Gator Horton to Gator Morris.
1975-04-01	The Detroit BOHEMIANS have renamed Rusty Staub to Gator Horton.
1975-03-07	The Detroit BOHEMIANS have renamed Jim Northrup to Rusty Staub.
1967-04-01	The Detroit Hurricanes have renamed Eric Grand to Jim Northrup.
1966-05-12	The Detroit Panthers have promoted Eric Grand to the major league team. The Detroit Panthers have designated Tom Quinn for assignment.
1965-05-28	The Detroit Panthers have promoted D. Setimika to the major league team. The Detroit Panthers have sent Eric Grand to the minors.
1965-04-15	The Detroit Panthers have promoted Eric Grand to the major league team.
1965-03-01	The Detroit Tigers have renamed Eric Ethier to Eric Grand.
1964-03-01	The Detroit Tigers have renamed Jeff Kennedy to Eric Ethier.