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Birdie Tebbetts played 14 major-league seasons (1936-1952) as a C (1,108). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 24 | DET | 10 | 33 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | .303 | .940 | 138 |
| 1937 | 25 | DET | 50 | 162 | 15 | 31 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 13 | .191 | .528 | 37 |
| 1938 | 26 | DET | 53 | 143 | 16 | 42 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 12 | 13 | .294 | .733 | 90 |
| 1939 | 27 | DET | 106 | 341 | 37 | 89 | 4 | 53 | 2 | 25 | 20 | .261 | .688 | 81 |
| 1940 | 28 | DET | 111 | 379 | 46 | 112 | 4 | 46 | 4 | 35 | 14 | .296 | .768 | 105 |
| 1941 | 29 | DET | 110 | 359 | 28 | 102 | 2 | 47 | 1 | 38 | 29 | .284 | .730 | 101 |
| 1942 | 30 | DET | 99 | 308 | 24 | 76 | 1 | 27 | 4 | 39 | 17 | .247 | .627 | 84 |
| 1946 | 34 | DET | 87 | 280 | 20 | 68 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 28 | 23 | .243 | .619 | 79 |
| 1947 | 35 | DET|BOS | 110 | 344 | 23 | 92 | 1 | 30 | 2 | 24 | 33 | .267 | .623 | 79 |
| 1948 | 36 | BOS | 128 | 446 | 54 | 125 | 5 | 68 | 5 | 62 | 32 | .280 | .752 | 106 |
| 1949 | 37 | BOS | 122 | 403 | 42 | 109 | 5 | 48 | 8 | 62 | 22 | .270 | .712 | 95 |
| 1950 | 38 | BOS | 79 | 268 | 33 | 83 | 8 | 45 | 1 | 29 | 26 | .310 | .821 | 116 |
| 1951 | 39 | CLE | 55 | 137 | 8 | 36 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 8 | 7 | .263 | .659 | 82 |
| 1952 | 40 | CLE | 42 | 101 | 4 | 25 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 9 | .248 | .656 | 89 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | C | 10 | 0 | 51 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 1937 | C | 48 | 0 | 155 | 25 | 7 | 1 |
| 1938 | C | 53 | 0 | 108 | 20 | 2 | 4 |
| 1939 | C | 100 | 0 | 449 | 64 | 16 | 10 |
| 1940 | C | 107 | 0 | 572 | 89 | 17 | 10 |
| 1941 | C | 98 | 0 | 461 | 83 | 13 | 11 |
| 1942 | C | 97 | 0 | 446 | 69 | 12 | 10 |
| 1946 | C | 87 | 0 | 486 | 53 | 10 | 4 |
| 1947 | C | 109 | 0 | 427 | 65 | 10 | 10 |
| 1948 | C | 126 | 0 | 470 | 56 | 10 | 8 |
| 1949 | C | 118 | 0 | 481 | 51 | 11 | 13 |
| 1950 | C | 74 | 0 | 285 | 44 | 4 | 5 |
| 1951 | C | 44 | 0 | 145 | 27 | 4 | 1 |
| 1952 | C | 37 | 0 | 131 | 15 | 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.
Birdie Tebbetts won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1948 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1948 (ML), TSN All-Star 1948 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1949, 1948.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 13 | 23 / 336 | 0 |
| 1949 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 21 | 6 / 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.