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Roy Smalley (AL baseball player)
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| Roy Smalley | ||
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| Shortstop | ||
| Born: October 25, 1952 | ||
| Batted: Switch | Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | ||
| April 30, 1975 for the Texas Rangers |
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| Final game | ||
| October 4, 1987 for the Minnesota Twins |
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| Career statistics | ||
| AVG | .257 | |
| Home runs | 163 | |
| Hits | 1454 | |
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| Career highlights and awards | ||
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Roy Frederick Smalley III (born October 25, 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball. From 1975 through 1987, Smalley played for the Texas Rangers (1975-1976), Minnesota Twins (1976-1982; 1985-1987), New York Yankees (1982-1984) and Chicago White Sox (1984). He was a switch-hitter and threw righthanded. His father Roy Sr. is also a former shortstop who played in the National League (1948-58), and manager Gene Mauch was his uncle.
In a 13-season career, Smalley posted a .257 batting average with 163 home runs and 694 RBI in 1653 games played. Smalley's best season came in 1979 when he was voted the starting Shortstop for the American League in the All-Star game. Smalley had a sensational 1st half of the season, entering the break with the 2nd highest Batting Average in the Major Leagues (.341). Though he tailed off in the 2nd half, Roy established career highs in runs, RBIs and home runs during his sensational 1979 campaign and was named the Shortstop on The Sporting News AL All-Star team. He now works for FSN North and helps with analysis of Minnesota Twins games. He also works as a stock broker for RBC Dain Rauscher
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| 4 Steve Lombardozzi | 5 Roy Smalley | 7 Greg Gagne | 8 Gary Gaetti | 9 Gene Larkin | 14 Kent Hrbek | 15 Tim Laudner | 16 Frank Viola | 17 Les Straker |18 Don Baylor | 21 George Frazier | 22 Keith Atherton | 24 Tom Brunansky | 25 Randy Bush | 26 Al Newman | 27 Mark Davidson | 28 Bert Blyleven | 31 Dan Schatzeder | 32 Dan Gladden | 33 Sal Butera | 34 Kirby Puckett | 36 Joe Niekro | 40 Juan Berenguer | 41 Jeff Reardon Manager 10 Tom Kelly |
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