| Chet Lemon | |
|---|---|
_(cropped).jpg) Lemon in 2012 | |
| Center fielder / Right fielder | |
| Born: February 12, 1955 Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| September 9, 1975, for the Chicago White Sox | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| October 3, 1990, for the Detroit Tigers | |
| MLB statistics | |
| Batting average | .273 |
| Home runs | 215 |
| Runs batted in | 884 |
| Teams | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
Chester Earl Lemon (born February 12, 1955) is a former outfielder. He played sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball, beginning with the Chicago White Sox in 1975, where he played for six years. He was then traded to the Detroit Tigers, where he played the rest of his career from 1982 to 1990.
A native of Jackson, Mississippi, he grew up in Los Angeles. He was drafted in the first round of the 1972 Major League Baseball draft. He was selected as an American League All-Star in 1978, 1979, and 1984 and was the starting center fielder for the 1984 Detroit Tigers team that won the 1984 World Series. Lemon was known as one of the best defensive center fielders in baseball from 1977 to 1987. In 1977, he led the American League with 512 outfield putouts, the fourth highest single-season tally in major league history and the highest tally since 1951.[1] He also totaled over 400 outfield putouts in four other years (1979 and 1983-1985). He led the American League with 44 doubles in 1979 and also led the league in times hit by pitch (HBP) four times, including a career-high 20 HBP in 1983. After his career ended, he became a baseball instructor and coach.
- ^ "Single-Season Leaders & Records for Putouts as OF". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 20, 2018.