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Dick Wakefield played 9 major-league seasons (1941-1952) as a OF (557). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 20 | DET | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .143 | .286 | -21 |
| 1943 | 22 | DET | 155 | 633 | 91 | 200 | 7 | 79 | 4 | 62 | 60 | .316 | .811 | 145 |
| 1944 | 23 | DET | 78 | 276 | 53 | 98 | 12 | 53 | 2 | 55 | 29 | .355 | 1.040 | 206 |
| 1946 | 25 | DET | 111 | 396 | 64 | 106 | 12 | 59 | 3 | 59 | 55 | .268 | .776 | 124 |
| 1947 | 26 | DET | 112 | 368 | 59 | 104 | 8 | 51 | 1 | 80 | 44 | .283 | .828 | 138 |
| 1948 | 27 | DET | 110 | 322 | 50 | 89 | 11 | 53 | 0 | 70 | 55 | .276 | .878 | 140 |
| 1949 | 28 | DET | 59 | 126 | 17 | 26 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 32 | 24 | .206 | .756 | 107 |
| 1950 | 29 | NYA | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .500 | 1.167 | 211 |
| 1952 | 31 | NY1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .333 | 3 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943 | OF | 155 | 0 | 314 | 11 | 14 | 1 |
| 1944 | OF | 78 | 0 | 155 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 1946 | OF | 104 | 0 | 210 | 6 | 8 | 1 |
| 1947 | OF | 101 | 0 | 197 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| 1948 | OF | 86 | 0 | 198 | 3 | 11 | 1 |
| 1949 | OF | 32 | 0 | 71 | 3 | 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.
Dick Wakefield won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (AL), TSN All-Star 1943 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1944 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1944 (ML), TSN All-Star 1944 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1944, 1943.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 6 | 72 / 336 | 0 |
| 1944 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 5 | 128 / 336 | 2 |
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.