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Bobby Avila played 11 major-league seasons (1949-1959) as a 2B (1,168), 3B (50), OF (10), SS (9). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 25 | CLE | 31 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .214 | .481 | 32 |
| 1950 | 26 | CLE | 80 | 201 | 39 | 60 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 29 | 17 | .299 | .773 | 105 |
| 1951 | 27 | CLE | 141 | 542 | 76 | 165 | 10 | 58 | 14 | 60 | 31 | .304 | .783 | 117 |
| 1952 | 28 | CLE | 150 | 597 | 102 | 179 | 7 | 45 | 12 | 67 | 36 | .300 | .787 | 126 |
| 1953 | 29 | CLE | 141 | 559 | 85 | 160 | 8 | 55 | 10 | 58 | 27 | .286 | .735 | 105 |
| 1954 | 30 | CLE | 143 | 555 | 112 | 189 | 15 | 67 | 9 | 59 | 31 | .341 | .880 | 148 |
| 1955 | 31 | CLE | 141 | 537 | 83 | 146 | 13 | 61 | 1 | 82 | 47 | .272 | .768 | 114 |
| 1956 | 32 | CLE | 138 | 513 | 74 | 115 | 10 | 54 | 17 | 70 | 68 | .224 | .640 | 75 |
| 1957 | 33 | CLE | 129 | 463 | 60 | 124 | 5 | 48 | 2 | 46 | 47 | .268 | .688 | 94 |
| 1958 | 34 | CLE | 113 | 375 | 54 | 95 | 5 | 30 | 5 | 55 | 45 | .253 | .714 | 103 |
| 1959 | 35 | BAL|BOS | 42 | 92 | 8 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 16 | .207 | .589 | 67 |
| 1959 | 35 | ML1 | 51 | 172 | 29 | 41 | 3 | 19 | 3 | 24 | 31 | .238 | .661 | 84 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 2B | 5 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 1950 | 2B | 62 | 0 | 153 | 135 | 5 | 46 |
| 1950 | SS | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1951 | 2B | 136 | 0 | 349 | 417 | 14 | 87 |
| 1952 | 2B | 149 | 0 | 355 | 431 | 28 | 81 |
| 1953 | 2B | 140 | 0 | 346 | 445 | 11 | 114 |
| 1954 | 2B | 141 | 139 | 356 | 406 | 19 | 100 |
| 1954 | SS | 7 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 1955 | 2B | 141 | 139 | 348 | 342 | 13 | 108 |
| 1956 | 2B | 135 | 130 | 322 | 351 | 16 | 83 |
| 1957 | 2B | 107 | 105 | 280 | 254 | 9 | 72 |
| 1957 | 3B | 16 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 2 | 2 |
| 1958 | 2B | 82 | 71 | 175 | 177 | 5 | 62 |
| 1958 | 3B | 33 | 25 | 18 | 48 | 4 | 6 |
| 1959 | 2B | 70 | 56 | 131 | 161 | 10 | 31 |
| 1959 | OF | 10 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.
Bobby Avila won: TSN All-Star 1954 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1954, 1952, 1951.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 10 | 49 / 336 | 0 |
| 1952 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 29 | 3 / 336 | 0 |
| 1954 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 3 | 203 / 336 | 5 |
Bobby Avila ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #95 | second basemen | 1954 | 148 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.