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Bill James played 4 major-league seasons (1913-1919) as a P (84). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 4 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 21 | BSN | 24 | 47 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 | .255 | .569 | 68 |
| 1914 | 22 | BSN | 49 | 129 | 9 | 33 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 20 | .256 | .541 | 66 |
| 1915 | 23 | BSN | 14 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | .048 | .139 | -56 |
| 1919 | 27 | BSN | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 21 | BSN | 24 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 135.2 | 73 | 57 | 2.79 | 115 |
| 1914 | 22 | BSN | 46 | 37 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 332.1 | 156 | 118 | 1.90 | 147 |
| 1915 | 23 | BSN | 13 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 68.1 | 23 | 22 | 3.03 | 91 |
| 1919 | 27 | BSN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 1 | 2 | 3.38 | 86 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | P | 24 | 0 | 7 | 35 | 7 | 2 |
| 1914 | P | 46 | 0 | 4 | 85 | 10 | 7 |
| 1915 | P | 13 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Bill James won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1914 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1914.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 3 | 33 / 64 | 0 |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.