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Earl Torgeson played 15 major-league seasons (1947-1961) as a 1B (1,416), OF (6). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 16 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 23 | BSN | 128 | 399 | 73 | 112 | 16 | 78 | 11 | 82 | 59 | .281 | .885 | 143 |
| 1948 | 24 | BSN | 134 | 438 | 70 | 111 | 10 | 67 | 19 | 81 | 54 | .253 | .770 | 116 |
| 1949 | 25 | BSN | 25 | 100 | 17 | 26 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 13 | 4 | .260 | .795 | 119 |
| 1950 | 26 | BSN | 156 | 576 | 120 | 167 | 23 | 87 | 15 | 119 | 69 | .290 | .885 | 141 |
| 1951 | 27 | BSN | 155 | 581 | 99 | 153 | 24 | 92 | 20 | 102 | 70 | .263 | .812 | 125 |
| 1952 | 28 | BSN | 122 | 382 | 49 | 88 | 5 | 34 | 11 | 81 | 38 | .230 | .681 | 97 |
| 1953 | 29 | PHI | 111 | 379 | 58 | 104 | 11 | 64 | 7 | 53 | 57 | .274 | .836 | 123 |
| 1954 | 30 | PHI | 135 | 490 | 63 | 133 | 5 | 54 | 7 | 75 | 52 | .271 | .736 | 99 |
| 1955 | 31 | DET | 89 | 300 | 58 | 85 | 9 | 50 | 9 | 61 | 29 | .283 | .810 | 126 |
| 1955 | 31 | PHI | 47 | 150 | 29 | 40 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 32 | 20 | .267 | .753 | 108 |
| 1956 | 32 | DET | 117 | 318 | 61 | 84 | 12 | 42 | 6 | 78 | 47 | .264 | .831 | 126 |
| 1957 | 33 | DET|CHA | 116 | 301 | 58 | 86 | 8 | 51 | 7 | 61 | 54 | .286 | .831 | 135 |
| 1958 | 34 | CHA | 96 | 188 | 37 | 50 | 10 | 30 | 7 | 48 | 29 | .266 | .883 | 150 |
| 1959 | 35 | CHA | 127 | 277 | 40 | 61 | 9 | 45 | 7 | 62 | 55 | .220 | .716 | 103 |
| 1960 | 36 | CHA | 68 | 57 | 12 | 15 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 8 | .263 | .865 | 144 |
| 1961 | 37 | CHA|NYA | 42 | 33 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 8 | .091 | .402 | 17 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 1B | 117 | 0 | 1033 | 76 | 18 | 83 |
| 1948 | 1B | 129 | 0 | 1069 | 81 | 8 | 85 |
| 1949 | 1B | 25 | 0 | 242 | 8 | 3 | 21 |
| 1950 | 1B | 156 | 0 | 1365 | 110 | 21 | 126 |
| 1951 | 1B | 155 | 0 | 1330 | 107 | 17 | 137 |
| 1952 | 1B | 105 | 0 | 931 | 73 | 11 | 86 |
| 1952 | OF | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1953 | 1B | 105 | 0 | 916 | 65 | 13 | 83 |
| 1954 | 1B | 133 | 131 | 1146 | 74 | 12 | 103 |
| 1955 | 1B | 126 | 123 | 1044 | 79 | 8 | 106 |
| 1956 | 1B | 83 | 75 | 623 | 32 | 5 | 62 |
| 1957 | 1B | 87 | 71 | 710 | 36 | 1 | 83 |
| 1957 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958 | 1B | 73 | 45 | 470 | 30 | 11 | 54 |
| 1959 | 1B | 103 | 68 | 717 | 37 | 13 | 58 |
| 1960 | 1B | 10 | 4 | 54 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 1961 | 1B | 9 | 3 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1950, 1949.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 29 | 2 / 336 | 0 |
| 1950 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 28 | 6 / 336 | 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.