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Ernie Lombardi played 17 major-league seasons (1931-1947) as a C (1,544). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 17 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 23 | BRO | 73 | 182 | 20 | 54 | 4 | 23 | 1 | 12 | 12 | .297 | .752 | 108 |
| 1932 | 24 | CIN | 118 | 413 | 43 | 125 | 11 | 68 | 0 | 41 | 19 | .303 | .851 | 134 |
| 1933 | 25 | CIN | 107 | 350 | 30 | 99 | 4 | 47 | 2 | 16 | 17 | .283 | .704 | 107 |
| 1934 | 26 | CIN | 132 | 417 | 42 | 127 | 9 | 62 | 0 | 16 | 22 | .305 | .769 | 111 |
| 1935 | 27 | CIN | 120 | 332 | 36 | 114 | 12 | 64 | 0 | 16 | 6 | .343 | .918 | 152 |
| 1936 | 28 | CIN | 121 | 387 | 42 | 129 | 12 | 68 | 1 | 19 | 16 | .333 | .871 | 140 |
| 1937 | 29 | CIN | 120 | 368 | 41 | 123 | 9 | 59 | 1 | 14 | 17 | .334 | .835 | 133 |
| 1938 | 30 | CIN | 129 | 489 | 60 | 167 | 19 | 95 | 0 | 40 | 14 | .342 | .915 | 158 |
| 1939 | 31 | CIN | 130 | 450 | 43 | 129 | 20 | 85 | 0 | 35 | 19 | .287 | .829 | 128 |
| 1940 | 32 | CIN | 109 | 376 | 50 | 120 | 14 | 74 | 0 | 31 | 14 | .319 | .871 | 147 |
| 1941 | 33 | CIN | 117 | 398 | 33 | 105 | 10 | 60 | 1 | 36 | 14 | .264 | .699 | 103 |
| 1942 | 34 | BSN | 105 | 309 | 32 | 102 | 11 | 46 | 1 | 37 | 12 | .330 | .886 | 167 |
| 1943 | 35 | NY1 | 104 | 295 | 19 | 90 | 10 | 51 | 1 | 16 | 11 | .305 | .778 | 131 |
| 1944 | 36 | NY1 | 117 | 373 | 37 | 95 | 10 | 58 | 0 | 33 | 25 | .255 | .687 | 99 |
| 1945 | 37 | NY1 | 115 | 368 | 46 | 113 | 19 | 70 | 0 | 43 | 11 | .307 | .873 | 150 |
| 1946 | 38 | NY1 | 88 | 238 | 19 | 69 | 12 | 39 | 0 | 18 | 24 | .290 | .814 | 137 |
| 1947 | 39 | NY1 | 48 | 110 | 8 | 31 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 7 | 9 | .282 | .761 | 108 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | C | 50 | 0 | 218 | 23 | 4 | 5 |
| 1932 | C | 110 | 0 | 288 | 76 | 14 | 6 |
| 1933 | C | 95 | 0 | 223 | 52 | 8 | 3 |
| 1934 | C | 111 | 0 | 383 | 61 | 5 | 8 |
| 1935 | C | 82 | 0 | 298 | 49 | 6 | 4 |
| 1936 | C | 105 | 0 | 330 | 54 | 15 | 10 |
| 1937 | C | 90 | 0 | 333 | 58 | 11 | 3 |
| 1938 | C | 123 | 0 | 512 | 73 | 9 | 8 |
| 1939 | C | 120 | 0 | 536 | 63 | 10 | 7 |
| 1940 | C | 101 | 0 | 397 | 46 | 5 | 5 |
| 1941 | C | 116 | 0 | 496 | 70 | 10 | 9 |
| 1942 | C | 85 | 0 | 251 | 41 | 6 | 3 |
| 1943 | C | 73 | 0 | 296 | 36 | 10 | 8 |
| 1944 | C | 100 | 0 | 350 | 47 | 13 | 11 |
| 1945 | C | 96 | 0 | 425 | 49 | 8 | 8 |
| 1946 | C | 63 | 0 | 272 | 36 | 7 | 7 |
| 1947 | C | 24 | 0 | 86 | 11 | 2 | 2 |
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.
Ernie Lombardi won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1938 (NL), MVP 1938 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1942 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1942, 1940, 1938, 1936, 1935.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 13 | 8 / 80 | 0 |
| 1936 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 20 | 1 / 80 | 0 |
| 1938 | Most Valuable Player (winner) | NL | 1 | 229 / 336 | 10 |
| 1940 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 9 | 38 / 336 | 1 |
| 1942 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 15 | 24 / 336 | 0 |
Ernie Lombardi ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #32 | catchers | 1938 | 158 OPS+ |
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.