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Don Newcombe played 10 major-league seasons (1949-1960) as a P (344). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 11 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 23 | BRO | 39 | 96 | 8 | 22 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 16 | .229 | .538 | 50 |
| 1950 | 24 | BRO | 40 | 97 | 8 | 24 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 19 | .247 | .648 | 77 |
| 1951 | 25 | BRO | 40 | 103 | 11 | 23 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 9 | .223 | .558 | 56 |
| 1954 | 28 | BRO | 31 | 47 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 | .319 | .706 | 92 |
| 1955 | 29 | BRO | 57 | 117 | 18 | 42 | 7 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 18 | .359 | 1.028 | 175 |
| 1956 | 30 | BRO | 52 | 111 | 13 | 26 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 18 | .234 | .654 | 82 |
| 1957 | 31 | BRO | 34 | 74 | 8 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 11 | .230 | .627 | 76 |
| 1958 | 32 | LAN|CIN | 50 | 72 | 11 | 26 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 12 | .361 | .850 | 134 |
| 1959 | 33 | CIN | 61 | 105 | 10 | 32 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 17 | 23 | .305 | .811 | 125 |
| 1960 | 34 | CLE | 24 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .300 | .683 | 91 |
| 1960 | 34 | CIN | 24 | 36 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | .139 | .372 | 7 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 23 | BRO | 38 | 31 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 244.1 | 149 | 73 | 3.17 | 128 |
| 1950 | 24 | BRO | 40 | 35 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 267.1 | 130 | 75 | 3.70 | 112 |
| 1951 | 25 | BRO | 40 | 36 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 272 | 164 | 91 | 3.28 | 121 |
| 1954 | 28 | BRO | 29 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 144.1 | 82 | 49 | 4.55 | 89 |
| 1955 | 29 | BRO | 34 | 31 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 233.2 | 143 | 38 | 3.20 | 126 |
| 1956 | 30 | BRO | 38 | 36 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 268 | 139 | 46 | 3.06 | 123 |
| 1957 | 31 | BRO | 28 | 28 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 198.2 | 90 | 33 | 3.49 | 111 |
| 1958 | 32 | LAN|CIN | 31 | 26 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 167.2 | 69 | 36 | 4.67 | 85 |
| 1959 | 33 | CIN | 30 | 29 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 222 | 100 | 27 | 3.16 | 125 |
| 1960 | 34 | CLE | 20 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 54 | 27 | 8 | 4.33 | 89 |
| 1960 | 34 | CIN | 16 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 82.2 | 36 | 14 | 4.57 | 82 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | P | 38 | 0 | 17 | 40 | 0 | 2 |
| 1950 | P | 40 | 0 | 19 | 43 | 2 | 3 |
| 1951 | P | 40 | 0 | 24 | 45 | 3 | 3 |
| 1954 | P | 29 | 25 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 2 |
| 1955 | P | 34 | 31 | 15 | 24 | 4 | 5 |
| 1956 | P | 38 | 36 | 25 | 39 | 1 | 5 |
| 1957 | P | 28 | 28 | 13 | 41 | 2 | 1 |
| 1958 | P | 31 | 26 | 11 | 19 | 0 | 2 |
| 1959 | P | 30 | 29 | 14 | 31 | 1 | 4 |
| 1960 | P | 36 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 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.
Don Newcombe won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1949 (NL), Rookie of the Year 1949 (NL), TSN All-Star 1955 (ML), Cy Young Award 1956 (ML), MVP 1956 (NL), TSN All-Star 1956 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (7 ballot finishes, 3 wins). Full year pages: 1956, 1955, 1951, 1950, 1949.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 8 | 55 / 336 | 0 |
| 1949 | Rookie of the Year (winner) | NL | 1 | 21 / 24 | 21 |
| 1950 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 19 | 14 / 336 | 0 |
| 1951 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 22 | 3 / 336 | 0 |
| 1955 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 7 | 89 / 336 | 0 |
| 1956 | Cy Young Award (winner) | ML | 1 | 10 / 16 | 10 |
| 1956 | Most Valuable Player (winner) | NL | 1 | 223 / 336 | 8 |
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.