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Bill Lee played 14 major-league seasons (1934-1947) as a P (462). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 14 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 25 | CHN | 40 | 76 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 11 | .132 | .346 | -4 |
| 1935 | 26 | CHN | 39 | 102 | 8 | 24 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 15 | .235 | .515 | 43 |
| 1936 | 27 | CHN | 43 | 87 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14 | .138 | .362 | 0 |
| 1937 | 28 | CHN | 42 | 87 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 23 | .172 | .430 | 20 |
| 1938 | 29 | CHN | 44 | 101 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 20 | .198 | .476 | 35 |
| 1939 | 30 | CHN | 37 | 103 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 16 | .126 | .314 | -12 |
| 1940 | 31 | CHN | 37 | 76 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 20 | .132 | .322 | -8 |
| 1941 | 32 | CHN | 28 | 59 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | .186 | .488 | 41 |
| 1942 | 33 | CHN | 32 | 69 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 13 | .159 | .425 | 29 |
| 1943 | 34 | CHN|PHI | 26 | 43 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | .186 | .408 | 22 |
| 1944 | 35 | PHI | 31 | 72 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | .194 | .431 | 26 |
| 1945 | 36 | PHI|BSN | 29 | 55 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | .145 | .362 | 5 |
| 1946 | 37 | BSN | 25 | 47 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | .170 | .374 | 10 |
| 1947 | 38 | CHN | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .667 | 84 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 25 | CHN | 35 | 29 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 214.1 | 104 | 74 | 3.40 | 119 |
| 1935 | 26 | CHN | 39 | 32 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 252 | 100 | 84 | 2.96 | 136 |
| 1936 | 27 | CHN | 43 | 33 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 258.2 | 102 | 93 | 3.31 | 122 |
| 1937 | 28 | CHN | 42 | 33 | 14 | 15 | 3 | 272.1 | 108 | 73 | 3.54 | 111 |
| 1938 | 29 | CHN | 44 | 37 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 291 | 121 | 74 | 2.66 | 142 |
| 1939 | 30 | CHN | 37 | 36 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 282.1 | 105 | 85 | 3.44 | 114 |
| 1940 | 31 | CHN | 37 | 30 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 211.1 | 70 | 70 | 5.03 | 77 |
| 1941 | 32 | CHN | 28 | 22 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 167.1 | 62 | 43 | 3.76 | 96 |
| 1942 | 33 | CHN | 32 | 30 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 219.2 | 75 | 67 | 3.85 | 86 |
| 1943 | 34 | CHN|PHI | 26 | 19 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 139 | 35 | 48 | 4.01 | 84 |
| 1944 | 35 | PHI | 31 | 28 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 208.1 | 50 | 57 | 3.15 | 114 |
| 1945 | 36 | PHI|BSN | 29 | 26 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 183.2 | 25 | 66 | 3.58 | 106 |
| 1946 | 37 | BSN | 25 | 21 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 140 | 32 | 45 | 4.18 | 82 |
| 1947 | 38 | CHN | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 14 | 4.50 | 90 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | P | 35 | 0 | 15 | 48 | 4 | 2 |
| 1935 | P | 39 | 0 | 12 | 52 | 7 | 4 |
| 1936 | P | 43 | 0 | 12 | 61 | 7 | 5 |
| 1937 | P | 42 | 0 | 20 | 70 | 5 | 5 |
| 1938 | P | 44 | 0 | 18 | 61 | 5 | 3 |
| 1939 | P | 37 | 0 | 15 | 80 | 5 | 3 |
| 1940 | P | 37 | 0 | 10 | 42 | 6 | 3 |
| 1941 | P | 28 | 0 | 10 | 39 | 6 | 3 |
| 1942 | P | 32 | 0 | 10 | 55 | 2 | 2 |
| 1943 | P | 26 | 0 | 9 | 21 | 3 | 1 |
| 1944 | P | 31 | 0 | 17 | 47 | 4 | 2 |
| 1945 | P | 29 | 0 | 5 | 46 | 1 | 2 |
| 1946 | P | 25 | 0 | 6 | 35 | 1 | 2 |
| 1947 | P | 14 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 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 Lee won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1938 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1939, 1938, 1935.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 26 | 1 / 80 | 0 |
| 1938 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 2 | 166 / 336 | 5 |
| 1939 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 20 | 8 / 336 | 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.