Loading players...
Bill Virdon played 12 major-league seasons (1955-1968) as a OF (1,542). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 12 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 24 | SLN | 144 | 534 | 58 | 150 | 17 | 68 | 2 | 36 | 64 | .281 | .755 | 104 |
| 1956 | 25 | SLN|PIT | 157 | 580 | 77 | 185 | 10 | 46 | 6 | 38 | 71 | .319 | .806 | 123 |
| 1957 | 26 | PIT | 144 | 561 | 59 | 141 | 8 | 50 | 3 | 33 | 69 | .251 | .675 | 86 |
| 1958 | 27 | PIT | 144 | 604 | 75 | 161 | 9 | 46 | 5 | 52 | 70 | .267 | .712 | 94 |
| 1959 | 28 | PIT | 144 | 519 | 67 | 132 | 8 | 41 | 7 | 55 | 65 | .254 | .682 | 89 |
| 1960 | 29 | PIT | 120 | 409 | 60 | 108 | 8 | 40 | 8 | 40 | 44 | .264 | .732 | 106 |
| 1961 | 30 | PIT | 146 | 599 | 81 | 156 | 9 | 58 | 5 | 49 | 45 | .260 | .682 | 86 |
| 1962 | 31 | PIT | 156 | 663 | 82 | 164 | 6 | 47 | 5 | 36 | 65 | .247 | .631 | 75 |
| 1963 | 32 | PIT | 142 | 554 | 58 | 149 | 8 | 53 | 1 | 43 | 55 | .269 | .695 | 107 |
| 1964 | 33 | PIT | 145 | 473 | 59 | 115 | 3 | 27 | 1 | 30 | 48 | .243 | .585 | 71 |
| 1965 | 34 | PIT | 135 | 481 | 58 | 134 | 4 | 24 | 4 | 30 | 49 | .279 | .692 | 102 |
| 1968 | 37 | PIT | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | 1.667 | 401 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | OF | 142 | 133 | 339 | 7 | 12 | 1 |
| 1956 | OF | 154 | 148 | 387 | 12 | 5 | 2 |
| 1957 | OF | 141 | 138 | 403 | 13 | 6 | 2 |
| 1958 | OF | 143 | 143 | 401 | 11 | 3 | 0 |
| 1959 | OF | 144 | 139 | 404 | 16 | 9 | 5 |
| 1960 | OF | 109 | 98 | 272 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| 1961 | OF | 145 | 144 | 384 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| 1962 | OF | 156 | 156 | 360 | 11 | 9 | 0 |
| 1963 | OF | 142 | 142 | 323 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 1964 | OF | 134 | 112 | 243 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 1965 | OF | 128 | 110 | 260 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 1968 | OF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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 Virdon won: Rookie of the Year 1955 (NL), Gold Glove 1962 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1956, 1955.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Rookie of the Year (winner) | NL | 1 | 15 / 24 | 15 |
| 1956 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 19 | 13 / 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.