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Billy Herman played 15 major-league seasons (1931-1947) as a 2B (1,813), 3B (71), 1B (27). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 15 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 22 | CHN | 25 | 98 | 14 | 32 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 13 | 6 | .327 | .803 | 124 |
| 1932 | 23 | CHN | 154 | 656 | 102 | 206 | 1 | 51 | 14 | 40 | 33 | .314 | .762 | 111 |
| 1933 | 24 | CHN | 153 | 619 | 82 | 173 | 0 | 44 | 5 | 45 | 34 | .279 | .675 | 99 |
| 1934 | 25 | CHN | 113 | 456 | 79 | 138 | 3 | 42 | 6 | 34 | 31 | .303 | .750 | 107 |
| 1935 | 26 | CHN | 154 | 666 | 113 | 227 | 7 | 83 | 6 | 42 | 29 | .341 | .859 | 137 |
| 1936 | 27 | CHN | 153 | 632 | 101 | 211 | 5 | 93 | 5 | 59 | 30 | .334 | .862 | 138 |
| 1937 | 28 | CHN | 138 | 564 | 106 | 189 | 8 | 65 | 2 | 56 | 22 | .335 | .875 | 145 |
| 1938 | 29 | CHN | 152 | 624 | 86 | 173 | 1 | 56 | 3 | 59 | 31 | .277 | .701 | 99 |
| 1939 | 30 | CHN | 156 | 623 | 111 | 191 | 7 | 70 | 9 | 66 | 31 | .307 | .830 | 130 |
| 1940 | 31 | CHN | 135 | 558 | 77 | 163 | 5 | 57 | 1 | 47 | 30 | .292 | .723 | 107 |
| 1941 | 32 | CHN|BRO | 144 | 572 | 81 | 163 | 3 | 41 | 1 | 67 | 43 | .285 | .732 | 113 |
| 1942 | 33 | BRO | 155 | 571 | 76 | 146 | 2 | 65 | 6 | 72 | 52 | .256 | .672 | 104 |
| 1943 | 34 | BRO | 153 | 585 | 76 | 193 | 2 | 100 | 4 | 66 | 26 | .330 | .815 | 143 |
| 1946 | 37 | BRO|BSN | 122 | 436 | 56 | 130 | 3 | 50 | 3 | 69 | 23 | .298 | .808 | 136 |
| 1947 | 38 | PIT | 15 | 47 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 7 | .213 | .543 | 49 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 2B | 25 | 0 | 76 | 79 | 10 | 17 |
| 1932 | 2B | 154 | 0 | 401 | 527 | 38 | 102 |
| 1933 | 2B | 153 | 0 | 466 | 512 | 45 | 114 |
| 1934 | 2B | 111 | 0 | 278 | 385 | 17 | 64 |
| 1935 | 2B | 154 | 0 | 416 | 520 | 35 | 109 |
| 1936 | 2B | 153 | 0 | 457 | 492 | 24 | 110 |
| 1937 | 2B | 137 | 0 | 384 | 468 | 41 | 97 |
| 1938 | 2B | 151 | 0 | 404 | 517 | 18 | 111 |
| 1939 | 2B | 156 | 0 | 377 | 485 | 29 | 95 |
| 1940 | 2B | 135 | 0 | 366 | 448 | 22 | 94 |
| 1941 | 2B | 144 | 0 | 330 | 374 | 26 | 69 |
| 1942 | 2B | 153 | 0 | 383 | 402 | 22 | 97 |
| 1942 | 1B | 3 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1943 | 2B | 117 | 0 | 291 | 322 | 18 | 69 |
| 1943 | 3B | 37 | 0 | 54 | 68 | 3 | 2 |
| 1946 | 2B | 60 | 0 | 137 | 137 | 9 | 27 |
| 1946 | 3B | 34 | 0 | 36 | 64 | 6 | 9 |
| 1946 | 1B | 22 | 0 | 179 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
| 1947 | 2B | 10 | 0 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 2 |
| 1947 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 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.
Billy Herman won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1932 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1935 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1936 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1937 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1938 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1940 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (NL), TSN All-Star 1943 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (7 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1943, 1941, 1939, 1937, 1936, 1935, 1932.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 9 | 16 / 80 | 0 |
| 1935 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 4 | 38 / 80 | 0 |
| 1936 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 3 | 37 / 80 | 0 |
| 1937 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 9 | 19 / 80 | 0 |
| 1939 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 31 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1941 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 11 | 27 / 336 | 0 |
| 1943 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 4 | 140 / 336 | 0 |
Billy Herman ranks on 3 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #107 | second basemen | 1937 | 145 OPS+ |
| #120 | second basemen | 1943 | 143 OPS+ |
| #151 | second basemen | 1946 | 136 OPS+ |
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.