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George Kell played 15 major-league seasons (1943-1957) as a 3B (1,692), 1B (85), OF (10), 2B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 15 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 21 | PHA | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .800 | 138 |
| 1944 | 22 | PHA | 139 | 514 | 51 | 138 | 0 | 44 | 5 | 22 | 23 | .268 | .609 | 80 |
| 1945 | 23 | PHA | 147 | 567 | 50 | 154 | 4 | 56 | 2 | 27 | 15 | .272 | .662 | 97 |
| 1946 | 24 | PHA|DET | 131 | 521 | 70 | 168 | 4 | 52 | 3 | 40 | 20 | .322 | .804 | 132 |
| 1947 | 25 | DET | 152 | 588 | 75 | 188 | 5 | 93 | 9 | 61 | 16 | .320 | .798 | 129 |
| 1948 | 26 | DET | 92 | 368 | 47 | 112 | 2 | 44 | 2 | 33 | 15 | .304 | .772 | 111 |
| 1949 | 27 | DET | 134 | 522 | 97 | 179 | 3 | 59 | 7 | 71 | 13 | .343 | .892 | 144 |
| 1950 | 28 | DET | 157 | 641 | 114 | 218 | 8 | 101 | 3 | 66 | 18 | .340 | .886 | 133 |
| 1951 | 29 | DET | 147 | 598 | 92 | 191 | 2 | 59 | 10 | 61 | 18 | .319 | .786 | 118 |
| 1952 | 30 | DET|BOS | 114 | 428 | 52 | 133 | 7 | 57 | 0 | 46 | 23 | .311 | .802 | 131 |
| 1953 | 31 | BOS | 134 | 460 | 68 | 141 | 12 | 73 | 5 | 52 | 22 | .307 | .866 | 140 |
| 1954 | 32 | BOS|CHA | 97 | 326 | 40 | 90 | 5 | 58 | 1 | 33 | 15 | .276 | .696 | 97 |
| 1955 | 33 | CHA | 128 | 429 | 44 | 134 | 8 | 81 | 2 | 51 | 36 | .312 | .818 | 127 |
| 1956 | 34 | CHA|BAL | 123 | 425 | 52 | 115 | 9 | 48 | 0 | 33 | 37 | .271 | .719 | 95 |
| 1957 | 35 | BAL | 99 | 310 | 28 | 92 | 9 | 44 | 2 | 25 | 16 | .297 | .765 | 115 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944 | 3B | 139 | 0 | 167 | 289 | 20 | 25 |
| 1945 | 3B | 147 | 0 | 186 | 345 | 20 | 32 |
| 1946 | 3B | 131 | 0 | 141 | 267 | 7 | 27 |
| 1946 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947 | 3B | 152 | 0 | 167 | 333 | 20 | 25 |
| 1948 | 3B | 92 | 0 | 108 | 146 | 8 | 15 |
| 1949 | 3B | 134 | 0 | 154 | 271 | 11 | 23 |
| 1950 | 3B | 157 | 0 | 186 | 315 | 9 | 30 |
| 1951 | 3B | 147 | 0 | 175 | 310 | 20 | 34 |
| 1952 | 3B | 112 | 0 | 113 | 216 | 14 | 21 |
| 1953 | 3B | 124 | 0 | 114 | 231 | 10 | 23 |
| 1953 | OF | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | 3B | 56 | 52 | 50 | 97 | 10 | 9 |
| 1954 | 1B | 32 | 32 | 253 | 8 | 1 | 27 |
| 1954 | OF | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | 3B | 105 | 102 | 83 | 165 | 6 | 8 |
| 1955 | 1B | 24 | 13 | 133 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| 1955 | OF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956 | 3B | 115 | 110 | 114 | 193 | 7 | 19 |
| 1956 | 1B | 6 | 4 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1956 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1957 | 3B | 80 | 59 | 66 | 122 | 4 | 15 |
| 1957 | 1B | 22 | 19 | 146 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
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.
George Kell won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1946 (AL), TSN All-Star 1946 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1947 (AL), TSN All-Star 1947 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1948 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1949 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1949 (ML), TSN All-Star 1949 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1950 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1950 (ML), TSN All-Star 1950 (ML), TSN All-Star 1951 (ML), TSN All-Star 1952 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (8 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1953, 1951, 1950, 1949, 1948, 1947, 1946, 1944.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 22 | 6 / 336 | 0 |
| 1946 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 17 | 12 / 336 | 0 |
| 1947 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 5 | 132 / 336 | 0 |
| 1948 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 16 | 14 / 336 | 0 |
| 1949 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 8 | 80 / 336 | 0 |
| 1950 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 4 | 127 / 336 | 0 |
| 1951 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 15 | 30 / 336 | 0 |
| 1953 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 27 | 1 / 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.