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Carl Mays played 15 major-league seasons (1915-1929) as a P (490). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 15 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 24 | BOS | 38 | 38 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | .237 | .573 | 76 |
| 1916 | 25 | BOS | 48 | 77 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 16 | 19 | .234 | .664 | 106 |
| 1917 | 26 | BOS | 35 | 107 | 9 | 27 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 11 | .252 | .628 | 97 |
| 1918 | 27 | BOS | 38 | 104 | 10 | 30 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 15 | .288 | .732 | 127 |
| 1919 | 28 | BOS|NYA | 35 | 98 | 9 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 5 | .224 | .510 | 48 |
| 1920 | 29 | NYA | 45 | 109 | 10 | 26 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 12 | .239 | .584 | 59 |
| 1921 | 30 | NYA | 51 | 143 | 18 | 49 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 7 | .343 | .798 | 108 |
| 1922 | 31 | NYA | 35 | 92 | 7 | 23 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 10 | .250 | .549 | 47 |
| 1923 | 32 | NYA | 23 | 27 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | .148 | .567 | 52 |
| 1924 | 33 | CIN | 38 | 83 | 9 | 24 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 12 | .289 | .768 | 109 |
| 1925 | 34 | CIN | 12 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .250 | .708 | 86 |
| 1926 | 35 | CIN | 39 | 98 | 12 | 22 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 7 | .224 | .574 | 58 |
| 1927 | 36 | CIN | 14 | 32 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .406 | 1.000 | 174 |
| 1928 | 37 | CIN | 14 | 27 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .296 | .630 | 70 |
| 1929 | 38 | NY1 | 37 | 34 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | .353 | .818 | 112 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 24 | BOS | 38 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 131.2 | 65 | 21 | 2.60 | 113 |
| 1916 | 25 | BOS | 44 | 24 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 245 | 76 | 74 | 2.39 | 118 |
| 1917 | 26 | BOS | 35 | 33 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 289 | 91 | 74 | 1.74 | 153 |
| 1918 | 27 | BOS | 35 | 33 | 21 | 13 | 0 | 293.1 | 114 | 81 | 2.21 | 125 |
| 1919 | 28 | BOS|NYA | 34 | 29 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 266 | 107 | 77 | 2.10 | 154 |
| 1920 | 29 | NYA | 45 | 37 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 312 | 92 | 84 | 3.06 | 124 |
| 1921 | 30 | NYA | 49 | 38 | 27 | 9 | 7 | 336.2 | 70 | 76 | 3.05 | 140 |
| 1922 | 31 | NYA | 34 | 29 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 240 | 41 | 50 | 3.60 | 112 |
| 1923 | 32 | NYA | 23 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 81.1 | 16 | 32 | 6.20 | 64 |
| 1924 | 33 | CIN | 37 | 27 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 226 | 63 | 36 | 3.15 | 123 |
| 1925 | 34 | CIN | 12 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 51.2 | 10 | 13 | 3.31 | 129 |
| 1926 | 35 | CIN | 39 | 33 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 281 | 58 | 53 | 3.14 | 122 |
| 1927 | 36 | CIN | 14 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 82 | 17 | 10 | 3.51 | 111 |
| 1928 | 37 | CIN | 14 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 62.2 | 10 | 22 | 3.88 | 103 |
| 1929 | 38 | NY1 | 37 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 123 | 32 | 31 | 4.32 | 109 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | P | 38 | 0 | 9 | 44 | 2 | 0 |
| 1916 | P | 44 | 0 | 13 | 117 | 6 | 5 |
| 1917 | P | 35 | 0 | 22 | 118 | 1 | 5 |
| 1918 | P | 35 | 0 | 16 | 122 | 8 | 3 |
| 1919 | P | 34 | 0 | 19 | 86 | 5 | 6 |
| 1920 | P | 45 | 0 | 19 | 106 | 1 | 5 |
| 1921 | P | 49 | 0 | 8 | 104 | 2 | 4 |
| 1922 | P | 34 | 0 | 8 | 94 | 5 | 4 |
| 1923 | P | 23 | 0 | 8 | 32 | 1 | 2 |
| 1924 | P | 37 | 0 | 13 | 94 | 5 | 5 |
| 1925 | P | 12 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 3 |
| 1926 | P | 39 | 0 | 16 | 117 | 4 | 10 |
| 1927 | P | 14 | 0 | 5 | 38 | 0 | 1 |
| 1928 | P | 14 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 0 |
| 1929 | P | 37 | 0 | 12 | 34 | 1 | 3 |
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.
Carl Mays won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1921 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1921 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1926 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1926.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 22 | 4 / 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.