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Gene Bearden played 7 major-league seasons (1947-1953) as a P (193), 1B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 6 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 28 | CLE | 37 | 90 | 14 | 23 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 9 | .256 | .650 | 78 |
| 1949 | 29 | CLE | 32 | 45 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | .111 | .260 | -28 |
| 1950 | 30 | CLE|WS1 | 28 | 35 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | .200 | .614 | 62 |
| 1951 | 31 | WS1|DET | 38 | 32 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .188 | .625 | 70 |
| 1952 | 32 | SLA | 45 | 65 | 6 | 23 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 10 | .354 | .773 | 123 |
| 1953 | 33 | CHA | 31 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .190 | .381 | 6 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 27 | CLE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | 81.08 | 5 |
| 1948 | 28 | CLE | 37 | 29 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 229.2 | 80 | 106 | 2.43 | 177 |
| 1949 | 29 | CLE | 32 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 127 | 41 | 92 | 5.10 | 82 |
| 1950 | 30 | CLE|WS1 | 26 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 113.2 | 30 | 65 | 4.99 | 92 |
| 1951 | 31 | WS1|DET | 38 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 108.2 | 39 | 60 | 4.64 | 89 |
| 1952 | 32 | SLA | 34 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 150.2 | 45 | 78 | 4.30 | 85 |
| 1953 | 33 | CHA | 25 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 58.1 | 24 | 33 | 2.93 | 136 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948 | P | 37 | 0 | 15 | 52 | 1 | 11 |
| 1949 | P | 32 | 0 | 9 | 42 | 1 | 2 |
| 1950 | P | 26 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 7 | 0 |
| 1950 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1951 | P | 38 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 1 | 0 |
| 1952 | P | 34 | 0 | 12 | 32 | 2 | 0 |
| 1953 | P | 25 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1948.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 8 | 52 / 336 | 0 |
| 1948 | Rookie of the Year | ML | 2 | 8 / 48 | 8 |
Gene Bearden ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #122 | starting pitchers | 1948 | 177 ERA+ |
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.