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Bob Porterfield played 12 major-league seasons (1948-1959) as a P (318). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 25 | NYA | 16 | 24 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .250 | .530 | 46 |
| 1949 | 26 | NYA | 12 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .053 | .205 | -44 |
| 1950 | 27 | NYA | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .833 | 123 |
| 1951 | 28 | NYA|WS1 | 21 | 46 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | .130 | .314 | -12 |
| 1952 | 29 | WS1 | 31 | 79 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 18 | .190 | .438 | 26 |
| 1953 | 30 | WS1 | 37 | 98 | 8 | 25 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 20 | .255 | .716 | 98 |
| 1954 | 31 | WS1 | 32 | 88 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 24 | .102 | .285 | -19 |
| 1955 | 32 | WS1 | 30 | 63 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 15 | .190 | .454 | 25 |
| 1956 | 33 | BOS | 25 | 43 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .326 | .743 | 102 |
| 1957 | 34 | BOS | 28 | 29 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .172 | .426 | 21 |
| 1958 | 35 | PIT | 37 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .050 | .295 | -22 |
| 1959 | 36 | PIT|CHN | 40 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 25 | NYA | 16 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 78 | 30 | 34 | 4.50 | 95 |
| 1949 | 26 | NYA | 12 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 57.2 | 25 | 29 | 4.06 | 103 |
| 1950 | 27 | NYA | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19.2 | 9 | 8 | 8.69 | 53 |
| 1951 | 28 | NYA|WS1 | 21 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 136.1 | 55 | 57 | 3.50 | 118 |
| 1952 | 29 | WS1 | 31 | 29 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 231.1 | 80 | 85 | 2.72 | 135 |
| 1953 | 30 | WS1 | 34 | 32 | 22 | 10 | 0 | 255 | 77 | 73 | 3.35 | 119 |
| 1954 | 31 | WS1 | 32 | 31 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 244 | 82 | 77 | 3.32 | 112 |
| 1955 | 32 | WS1 | 30 | 27 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 178 | 74 | 54 | 4.45 | 89 |
| 1956 | 33 | BOS | 25 | 18 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 126 | 53 | 64 | 5.14 | 81 |
| 1957 | 34 | BOS | 28 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 102.1 | 28 | 30 | 4.05 | 94 |
| 1958 | 35 | BOS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4.50 | 84 |
| 1958 | 35 | PIT | 37 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 87.2 | 39 | 19 | 3.29 | 120 |
| 1959 | 36 | PIT|CHN | 40 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 47.2 | 19 | 22 | 5.29 | 75 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | P | 16 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949 | P | 12 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
| 1950 | P | 10 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951 | P | 21 | 0 | 8 | 24 | 2 | 0 |
| 1952 | P | 31 | 0 | 4 | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953 | P | 34 | 0 | 16 | 50 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954 | P | 32 | 31 | 10 | 61 | 3 | 4 |
| 1955 | P | 30 | 27 | 8 | 28 | 1 | 2 |
| 1956 | P | 25 | 18 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 1 |
| 1957 | P | 28 | 9 | 7 | 23 | 3 | 1 |
| 1958 | P | 39 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959 | P | 40 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 2 |
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.
Bob Porterfield won: TSN All-Star 1953 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1953, 1952.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 35 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1953 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 7 | 64 / 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.