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Burleigh Grimes played 19 major-league seasons (1916-1934) as a P (616). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 20 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 23 | PIT | 6 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .176 | .353 | 12 |
| 1917 | 24 | PIT | 42 | 69 | 7 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18 | .232 | .529 | 67 |
| 1918 | 25 | BRO | 41 | 90 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | .200 | .470 | 47 |
| 1919 | 26 | BRO | 26 | 69 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 10 | .246 | .551 | 70 |
| 1920 | 27 | BRO | 43 | 111 | 9 | 34 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 8 | 21 | .306 | .791 | 132 |
| 1921 | 28 | BRO | 37 | 114 | 10 | 27 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 16 | .237 | .572 | 55 |
| 1922 | 29 | BRO | 36 | 93 | 15 | 22 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 15 | .237 | .594 | 59 |
| 1923 | 30 | BRO | 40 | 126 | 15 | 30 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 15 | .238 | .561 | 53 |
| 1924 | 31 | BRO | 40 | 124 | 11 | 37 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 13 | .298 | .653 | 81 |
| 1925 | 32 | BRO | 34 | 96 | 12 | 24 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 25 | .250 | .651 | 71 |
| 1926 | 33 | BRO | 31 | 81 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 8 | .222 | .530 | 47 |
| 1927 | 34 | NY1 | 39 | 96 | 10 | 18 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 16 | .188 | .457 | 27 |
| 1928 | 35 | PIT | 48 | 131 | 17 | 42 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 15 | .321 | .738 | 99 |
| 1929 | 36 | PIT | 33 | 91 | 11 | 26 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 10 | .286 | .700 | 79 |
| 1930 | 37 | BSN|SLN | 34 | 73 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 14 | .247 | .619 | 55 |
| 1931 | 38 | SLN | 29 | 76 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .184 | .379 | 6 |
| 1932 | 39 | CHN | 30 | 44 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | .250 | .539 | 50 |
| 1933 | 40 | CHN|SLN | 21 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .160 | .392 | 16 |
| 1934 | 41 | NYA | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1934 | 41 | SLN|PIT | 12 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .143 | .286 | -21 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 23 | PIT | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 45.2 | 20 | 10 | 2.36 | 110 |
| 1917 | 24 | PIT | 37 | 17 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 194 | 72 | 70 | 3.53 | 77 |
| 1918 | 25 | BRO | 40 | 30 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 270 | 113 | 76 | 2.13 | 130 |
| 1919 | 26 | BRO | 25 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 181.1 | 82 | 60 | 3.47 | 84 |
| 1920 | 27 | BRO | 40 | 33 | 23 | 11 | 2 | 303.2 | 131 | 67 | 2.22 | 141 |
| 1921 | 28 | BRO | 37 | 35 | 22 | 13 | 0 | 302.1 | 136 | 76 | 2.83 | 134 |
| 1922 | 29 | BRO | 36 | 34 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 259 | 99 | 84 | 4.76 | 86 |
| 1923 | 30 | BRO | 39 | 38 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 327 | 119 | 100 | 3.58 | 112 |
| 1924 | 31 | BRO | 38 | 36 | 22 | 13 | 1 | 310.2 | 135 | 91 | 3.82 | 101 |
| 1925 | 32 | BRO | 33 | 31 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 246.2 | 73 | 102 | 5.04 | 85 |
| 1926 | 33 | BRO | 30 | 29 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 225.1 | 64 | 88 | 3.71 | 103 |
| 1927 | 34 | NY1 | 39 | 34 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 259.2 | 102 | 87 | 3.54 | 111 |
| 1928 | 35 | PIT | 48 | 37 | 25 | 14 | 3 | 330.2 | 97 | 77 | 2.99 | 133 |
| 1929 | 36 | PIT | 33 | 29 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 232.2 | 62 | 70 | 3.13 | 150 |
| 1930 | 37 | BSN|SLN | 33 | 28 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 201.1 | 73 | 65 | 4.07 | 122 |
| 1931 | 38 | SLN | 29 | 28 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 212.1 | 67 | 59 | 3.65 | 106 |
| 1932 | 39 | CHN | 30 | 18 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 141.1 | 36 | 50 | 4.78 | 81 |
| 1933 | 40 | CHN|SLN | 21 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 83.1 | 16 | 37 | 3.78 | 88 |
| 1934 | 41 | NYA | 10 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 14 | 5.50 | 82 |
| 1934 | 41 | SLN|PIT | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 10 | 12 | 6.43 | 63 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | P | 6 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 1 |
| 1917 | P | 37 | 0 | 9 | 62 | 6 | 3 |
| 1918 | P | 40 | 0 | 12 | 94 | 5 | 1 |
| 1919 | P | 25 | 0 | 12 | 50 | 3 | 3 |
| 1920 | P | 40 | 0 | 17 | 95 | 7 | 2 |
| 1921 | P | 37 | 0 | 17 | 89 | 2 | 5 |
| 1922 | P | 36 | 0 | 12 | 79 | 6 | 2 |
| 1923 | P | 39 | 0 | 16 | 101 | 10 | 6 |
| 1924 | P | 38 | 0 | 25 | 91 | 4 | 5 |
| 1925 | P | 33 | 0 | 18 | 92 | 7 | 11 |
| 1926 | P | 30 | 0 | 4 | 72 | 3 | 1 |
| 1927 | P | 39 | 0 | 16 | 71 | 0 | 9 |
| 1928 | P | 48 | 0 | 9 | 106 | 4 | 6 |
| 1929 | P | 33 | 0 | 10 | 65 | 3 | 5 |
| 1930 | P | 33 | 0 | 8 | 47 | 1 | 4 |
| 1931 | P | 29 | 0 | 16 | 57 | 4 | 3 |
| 1932 | P | 30 | 0 | 12 | 33 | 2 | 4 |
| 1933 | P | 21 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 2 |
| 1934 | P | 22 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 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.
Burleigh Grimes won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1918 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1920 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1920 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1921 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1921 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1924 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1924 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1928 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1928 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1929 (NL), TSN All-Star 1929 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1929, 1928, 1927, 1924.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 15 | 5 / 80 | 0 |
| 1927 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 19 | 4 / 80 | 0 |
| 1928 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 3 | 53 / 80 | 0 |
| 1929 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 4 | 35 / 80 | 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.