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Elmer Riddle played 10 major-league seasons (1939-1949) as a P (190). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 26 | CIN | 15 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .143 | .393 | 15 |
| 1941 | 27 | CIN | 33 | 71 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 11 | .225 | .538 | 57 |
| 1942 | 28 | CIN | 29 | 58 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | .259 | .559 | 69 |
| 1943 | 29 | CIN | 36 | 93 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 11 | .194 | .461 | 37 |
| 1944 | 30 | CIN | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .125 | .347 | 3 |
| 1945 | 31 | CIN | 12 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .273 | .636 | 82 |
| 1947 | 33 | CIN | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .000 | .286 | -16 |
| 1948 | 34 | PIT | 29 | 64 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | .188 | .485 | 36 |
| 1949 | 35 | PIT | 16 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .136 | .310 | -13 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 25 | CIN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| 1940 | 26 | CIN | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 33.2 | 9 | 17 | 1.87 | 206 |
| 1941 | 27 | CIN | 33 | 22 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 216.2 | 80 | 59 | 2.24 | 162 |
| 1942 | 28 | CIN | 29 | 19 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 158.1 | 78 | 79 | 3.69 | 90 |
| 1943 | 29 | CIN | 36 | 33 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 260.1 | 69 | 107 | 2.63 | 129 |
| 1944 | 30 | CIN | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 26.2 | 6 | 12 | 4.05 | 89 |
| 1945 | 31 | CIN | 12 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 29.2 | 5 | 27 | 8.19 | 46 |
| 1947 | 33 | CIN | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30.1 | 8 | 31 | 8.31 | 49 |
| 1948 | 34 | PIT | 28 | 27 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 191 | 63 | 81 | 3.49 | 113 |
| 1949 | 35 | PIT | 16 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 74.1 | 24 | 45 | 5.33 | 76 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940 | P | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 |
| 1941 | P | 33 | 0 | 7 | 43 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942 | P | 29 | 0 | 7 | 28 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943 | P | 36 | 0 | 16 | 48 | 1 | 4 |
| 1944 | P | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945 | P | 12 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 1947 | P | 16 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948 | P | 28 | 0 | 9 | 37 | 2 | 3 |
| 1949 | P | 16 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 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.
Elmer Riddle won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1941 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1941 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1943, 1941.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 5 | 98 / 336 | 0 |
| 1943 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 7 | 68 / 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.