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Elmer Valo played 20 major-league seasons (1940-1961) as a OF (1,329). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 22 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 19 | PHA | 6 | 23 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .348 | .771 | 109 |
| 1941 | 20 | PHA | 15 | 50 | 13 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | .420 | 1.043 | 185 |
| 1942 | 21 | PHA | 133 | 459 | 64 | 115 | 2 | 40 | 13 | 70 | 21 | .251 | .690 | 102 |
| 1943 | 22 | PHA | 77 | 249 | 31 | 55 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 35 | 13 | .221 | .616 | 86 |
| 1946 | 25 | PHA | 108 | 348 | 59 | 107 | 1 | 31 | 9 | 60 | 18 | .307 | .822 | 138 |
| 1947 | 26 | PHA | 112 | 370 | 60 | 111 | 5 | 36 | 11 | 64 | 21 | .300 | .811 | 133 |
| 1948 | 27 | PHA | 113 | 383 | 72 | 117 | 3 | 46 | 10 | 81 | 13 | .305 | .826 | 127 |
| 1949 | 28 | PHA | 150 | 547 | 86 | 155 | 5 | 85 | 14 | 119 | 32 | .283 | .817 | 124 |
| 1950 | 29 | PHA | 129 | 446 | 62 | 125 | 10 | 46 | 12 | 82 | 22 | .280 | .806 | 113 |
| 1951 | 30 | PHA | 123 | 444 | 75 | 134 | 7 | 55 | 11 | 75 | 20 | .302 | .858 | 137 |
| 1952 | 31 | PHA | 129 | 388 | 69 | 109 | 5 | 47 | 12 | 101 | 16 | .281 | .839 | 142 |
| 1953 | 32 | PHA | 50 | 85 | 15 | 19 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 7 | .224 | .642 | 81 |
| 1954 | 33 | PHA | 95 | 224 | 28 | 48 | 1 | 33 | 2 | 51 | 18 | .214 | .686 | 95 |
| 1955 | 34 | KC1 | 112 | 283 | 50 | 103 | 3 | 37 | 5 | 52 | 18 | .364 | .944 | 163 |
| 1956 | 35 | KC1 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .222 | .495 | 36 |
| 1956 | 35 | PHI | 98 | 291 | 40 | 84 | 5 | 37 | 7 | 48 | 21 | .289 | .798 | 122 |
| 1957 | 36 | BRO | 81 | 161 | 14 | 44 | 4 | 26 | 0 | 25 | 16 | .273 | .793 | 120 |
| 1958 | 37 | LAN | 65 | 101 | 9 | 25 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 12 | 11 | .248 | .639 | 76 |
| 1959 | 38 | CLE | 34 | 24 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .292 | .716 | 106 |
| 1960 | 39 | NYA|WS1 | 84 | 69 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 19 | 5 | .261 | .717 | 103 |
| 1961 | 40 | MIN | 33 | 32 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | .156 | .469 | 31 |
| 1961 | 40 | PHI | 50 | 43 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 6 | .186 | .629 | 74 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | OF | 6 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941 | OF | 10 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942 | OF | 122 | 0 | 264 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 1943 | OF | 63 | 0 | 134 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 1946 | OF | 90 | 0 | 182 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| 1947 | OF | 104 | 0 | 205 | 9 | 6 | 0 |
| 1948 | OF | 109 | 0 | 231 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| 1949 | OF | 150 | 0 | 395 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 1950 | OF | 117 | 0 | 264 | 9 | 5 | 3 |
| 1951 | OF | 116 | 0 | 247 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 1952 | OF | 121 | 0 | 223 | 7 | 9 | 1 |
| 1953 | OF | 25 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1954 | OF | 62 | 56 | 135 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 1955 | OF | 72 | 69 | 147 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 1956 | OF | 88 | 85 | 167 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1957 | OF | 36 | 36 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958 | OF | 26 | 14 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959 | OF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960 | OF | 8 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1961 | OF | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1955.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 22 | 5 / 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.