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Bob Purkey played 13 major-league seasons (1954-1966) as a P (386). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 25 | PIT | 36 | 26 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | .077 | .315 | -13 |
| 1955 | 26 | PIT | 14 | 19 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .316 | .789 | 112 |
| 1957 | 28 | PIT | 48 | 45 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 22 | .111 | .380 | 5 |
| 1958 | 29 | CIN | 37 | 81 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 42 | .111 | .343 | -6 |
| 1959 | 30 | CIN | 38 | 66 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 34 | .167 | .519 | 44 |
| 1960 | 31 | CIN | 41 | 83 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 44 | .133 | .333 | -4 |
| 1961 | 32 | CIN | 36 | 80 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 32 | .100 | .295 | -20 |
| 1962 | 33 | CIN | 37 | 107 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 56 | .103 | .311 | -14 |
| 1963 | 34 | CIN | 21 | 41 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 22 | .098 | .271 | -17 |
| 1964 | 35 | CIN | 34 | 58 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 33 | .052 | .134 | -60 |
| 1965 | 36 | SLN | 32 | 35 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 21 | .029 | .084 | -75 |
| 1966 | 37 | PIT | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 25 | PIT | 36 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 131.1 | 38 | 62 | 5.07 | 80 |
| 1955 | 26 | PIT | 14 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 67.2 | 24 | 25 | 5.32 | 76 |
| 1956 | 27 | PIT | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2.25 | 168 |
| 1957 | 28 | PIT | 48 | 21 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 179.2 | 51 | 38 | 3.86 | 101 |
| 1958 | 29 | CIN | 37 | 34 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 250 | 70 | 49 | 3.60 | 110 |
| 1959 | 30 | CIN | 38 | 33 | 13 | 18 | 1 | 218 | 78 | 43 | 4.25 | 93 |
| 1960 | 31 | CIN | 41 | 33 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 252.2 | 97 | 59 | 3.60 | 105 |
| 1961 | 32 | CIN | 36 | 34 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 246.1 | 116 | 51 | 3.73 | 108 |
| 1962 | 33 | CIN | 37 | 37 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 288.1 | 141 | 64 | 2.81 | 140 |
| 1963 | 34 | CIN | 21 | 21 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 137 | 55 | 33 | 3.55 | 93 |
| 1964 | 35 | CIN | 34 | 25 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 195.2 | 78 | 49 | 3.04 | 116 |
| 1965 | 36 | SLN | 32 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 124.1 | 39 | 33 | 5.79 | 61 |
| 1966 | 37 | PIT | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19.2 | 5 | 4 | 1.37 | 263 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | P | 36 | 11 | 16 | 40 | 0 | 6 |
| 1955 | P | 14 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| 1956 | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957 | P | 48 | 21 | 13 | 30 | 3 | 3 |
| 1958 | P | 37 | 34 | 10 | 56 | 1 | 2 |
| 1959 | P | 38 | 33 | 19 | 35 | 2 | 1 |
| 1960 | P | 41 | 33 | 30 | 47 | 1 | 5 |
| 1961 | P | 36 | 34 | 29 | 69 | 2 | 2 |
| 1962 | P | 37 | 37 | 25 | 59 | 4 | 7 |
| 1963 | P | 21 | 21 | 15 | 29 | 3 | 0 |
| 1964 | P | 34 | 25 | 17 | 44 | 4 | 4 |
| 1965 | P | 32 | 17 | 8 | 28 | 1 | 1 |
| 1966 | P | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
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 Purkey won: TSN All-Star 1962 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1962, 1958.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 20 | 4 / 336 | 0 |
| 1962 | Cy Young Award | ML | 4 | 1 / 20 | 1 |
| 1962 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 8 | 33 / 280 | 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.