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Bullet Joe Bush played 17 major-league seasons (1912-1928) as a P (489), OF (9). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 18 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 20 | PHA | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .500 | 1.500 | 338 |
| 1913 | 21 | PHA | 39 | 70 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21 | .157 | .409 | 24 |
| 1914 | 22 | PHA | 38 | 74 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 25 | .189 | .494 | 54 |
| 1915 | 23 | PHA | 25 | 49 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22 | .143 | .303 | -7 |
| 1916 | 24 | PHA | 41 | 100 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 23 | .140 | .320 | -1 |
| 1917 | 25 | PHA | 37 | 80 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | .200 | .497 | 56 |
| 1918 | 26 | BOS | 36 | 98 | 8 | 27 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 11 | .276 | .664 | 106 |
| 1919 | 27 | BOS | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .400 | .800 | 132 |
| 1920 | 28 | BOS | 45 | 102 | 14 | 25 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 15 | .245 | .571 | 57 |
| 1921 | 29 | BOS | 50 | 120 | 19 | 39 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 14 | .325 | .775 | 102 |
| 1922 | 30 | NYA | 39 | 95 | 15 | 31 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 11 | .326 | .779 | 108 |
| 1923 | 31 | NYA | 38 | 113 | 12 | 31 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 8 | .274 | .718 | 93 |
| 1924 | 32 | NYA | 60 | 124 | 13 | 42 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 6 | .339 | .858 | 127 |
| 1925 | 33 | SLA | 57 | 102 | 10 | 26 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 8 | .255 | .728 | 88 |
| 1926 | 34 | WS1 | 17 | 30 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | .233 | .536 | 46 |
| 1926 | 34 | PIT | 28 | 49 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .265 | .688 | 89 |
| 1927 | 35 | PIT|NY1 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .556 | 1.156 | 221 |
| 1928 | 36 | PHA | 15 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .067 | .192 | -47 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 20 | PHA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7.88 | 42 |
| 1913 | 21 | PHA | 39 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 200.1 | 81 | 66 | 3.82 | 77 |
| 1914 | 22 | PHA | 38 | 22 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 206 | 109 | 81 | 3.06 | 89 |
| 1915 | 23 | PHA | 25 | 18 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 145.2 | 89 | 89 | 4.14 | 71 |
| 1916 | 24 | PHA | 40 | 33 | 15 | 24 | 0 | 286.2 | 157 | 130 | 2.57 | 110 |
| 1917 | 25 | PHA | 37 | 31 | 11 | 17 | 2 | 233.1 | 121 | 111 | 2.47 | 108 |
| 1918 | 26 | BOS | 36 | 31 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 272.2 | 125 | 91 | 2.11 | 131 |
| 1919 | 27 | BOS | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 5.00 | 64 |
| 1920 | 28 | BOS | 35 | 32 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 243.2 | 88 | 94 | 4.25 | 89 |
| 1921 | 29 | BOS | 37 | 32 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 254.1 | 96 | 93 | 3.50 | 122 |
| 1922 | 30 | NYA | 39 | 30 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 255.1 | 92 | 85 | 3.31 | 122 |
| 1923 | 31 | NYA | 37 | 30 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 275.2 | 125 | 117 | 3.43 | 116 |
| 1924 | 32 | NYA | 39 | 31 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 252 | 80 | 109 | 3.57 | 118 |
| 1925 | 33 | SLA | 33 | 28 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 208.2 | 63 | 91 | 5.09 | 86 |
| 1926 | 34 | WS1 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 71.1 | 27 | 35 | 6.69 | 60 |
| 1926 | 34 | PIT | 19 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 110.2 | 38 | 35 | 3.01 | 127 |
| 1927 | 35 | PIT|NY1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 18.2 | 7 | 10 | 9.64 | 41 |
| 1928 | 36 | PHA | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 35.1 | 15 | 18 | 5.09 | 79 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | P | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1913 | P | 39 | 0 | 15 | 74 | 2 | 4 |
| 1914 | P | 38 | 0 | 8 | 55 | 3 | 1 |
| 1915 | P | 25 | 0 | 7 | 39 | 3 | 3 |
| 1916 | P | 40 | 0 | 19 | 94 | 6 | 8 |
| 1917 | P | 37 | 0 | 20 | 61 | 6 | 0 |
| 1918 | P | 36 | 0 | 16 | 81 | 2 | 5 |
| 1919 | P | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1920 | P | 35 | 0 | 24 | 66 | 4 | 7 |
| 1920 | OF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921 | P | 37 | 0 | 13 | 64 | 1 | 0 |
| 1921 | OF | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922 | P | 39 | 0 | 16 | 61 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923 | P | 37 | 0 | 15 | 74 | 3 | 3 |
| 1924 | P | 39 | 0 | 24 | 60 | 1 | 4 |
| 1925 | P | 33 | 0 | 17 | 54 | 0 | 5 |
| 1925 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926 | P | 31 | 0 | 8 | 39 | 2 | 3 |
| 1926 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927 | P | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1928 | P | 11 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 1928 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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.
Bullet Joe Bush won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1922 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1922 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1922.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 4 | 19 / 64 | 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.