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Cal McVey played 9 major-league seasons (1871-1879) as a 1B (186), C (182), OF (110), 3B (84), P (34). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 9 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 22 | BS1 | 29 | 153 | 43 | 66 | 0 | 43 | 6 | 1 | 2 | .431 | .991 | 184 |
| 1872 | 23 | BS1 | 46 | 237 | 56 | 76 | 0 | 41 | 6 | 1 | 1 | .321 | .703 | 118 |
| 1873 | 24 | BL1 | 38 | 192 | 49 | 73 | 2 | 35 | 2 | 3 | 2 | .380 | .879 | 165 |
| 1874 | 25 | BS1 | 70 | 343 | 91 | 123 | 3 | 71 | 5 | 1 | 3 | .359 | .842 | 172 |
| 1875 | 26 | BS1 | 82 | 389 | 89 | 138 | 3 | 87 | 7 | 1 | 5 | .355 | .873 | 203 |
| 1876 | 27 | CHN | 63 | 308 | 62 | 107 | 1 | 53 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .347 | .757 | 153 |
| 1877 | 28 | CHN | 60 | 266 | 58 | 98 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 8 | 11 | .368 | .842 | 169 |
| 1878 | 29 | CN1 | 61 | 271 | 43 | 83 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 5 | 10 | .306 | .714 | 138 |
| 1879 | 30 | CN1 | 81 | 354 | 64 | 105 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 8 | 13 | .297 | .694 | 131 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1875 | 26 | BS1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 4.91 | 45 |
| 1876 | 27 | CHN | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 59.1 | 9 | 2 | 1.52 | 152 |
| 1877 | 28 | CHN | 17 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 92 | 20 | 11 | 4.50 | 62 |
| 1879 | 30 | CN1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 8.36 | 30 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871 | C | 29 | 27 | 105 | 12 | 17 | 1 |
| 1871 | OF | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1871 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1872 | C | 39 | 40 | 149 | 30 | 27 | 2 |
| 1872 | OF | 11 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1872 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1873 | C | 25 | 0 | 82 | 15 | 10 | 0 |
| 1873 | OF | 6 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1873 | SS | 5 | 0 | 11 | 18 | 4 | 0 |
| 1873 | 2B | 4 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1873 | 1B | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1873 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1874 | OF | 57 | 55 | 64 | 7 | 29 | 0 |
| 1874 | C | 23 | 15 | 66 | 9 | 12 | 0 |
| 1875 | 1B | 55 | 0 | 532 | 13 | 29 | 28 |
| 1875 | OF | 23 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1875 | C | 16 | 0 | 74 | 21 | 14 | 1 |
| 1875 | P | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1876 | 1B | 55 | 0 | 485 | 10 | 21 | 21 |
| 1876 | P | 11 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 0 |
| 1876 | C | 6 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1876 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1876 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1877 | C | 40 | 0 | 137 | 34 | 28 | 3 |
| 1877 | 3B | 17 | 0 | 18 | 23 | 8 | 0 |
| 1877 | P | 17 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 0 |
| 1877 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1877 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 1878 | 3B | 61 | 0 | 78 | 106 | 42 | 6 |
| 1878 | C | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1879 | 1B | 72 | 0 | 736 | 5 | 42 | 33 |
| 1879 | OF | 7 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1879 | P | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1879 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1879 | C | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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.
Cal McVey ranks on 5 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #3 | catchers | 1871 | 184 OPS+ |
| #11 | catchers | 1877 | 169 OPS+ |
| #18 | first basemen | 1875 | 203 OPS+ |
| #21 | catchers | 1873 | 165 OPS+ |
| #105 | right fielders | 1874 | 172 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.