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Gus Zernial played 11 major-league seasons (1949-1959) as a OF (1,007), 1B (35). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 11 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 26 | CHA | 73 | 198 | 29 | 63 | 5 | 38 | 0 | 15 | 26 | .318 | .866 | 136 |
| 1950 | 27 | CHA | 143 | 543 | 75 | 152 | 29 | 93 | 0 | 38 | 110 | .280 | .815 | 113 |
| 1951 | 28 | CHA|PHA | 143 | 571 | 92 | 153 | 33 | 129 | 2 | 63 | 101 | .268 | .856 | 135 |
| 1952 | 29 | PHA | 145 | 549 | 76 | 144 | 29 | 100 | 5 | 70 | 87 | .262 | .799 | 129 |
| 1953 | 30 | PHA | 147 | 556 | 85 | 158 | 42 | 108 | 4 | 57 | 79 | .284 | .914 | 151 |
| 1954 | 31 | PHA | 97 | 336 | 42 | 84 | 14 | 62 | 0 | 30 | 60 | .250 | .727 | 105 |
| 1955 | 32 | KC1 | 120 | 413 | 62 | 105 | 30 | 84 | 1 | 30 | 90 | .254 | .812 | 123 |
| 1956 | 33 | KC1 | 109 | 272 | 36 | 61 | 16 | 44 | 2 | 33 | 66 | .224 | .760 | 105 |
| 1957 | 34 | KC1 | 131 | 437 | 56 | 103 | 27 | 69 | 1 | 34 | 84 | .236 | .761 | 112 |
| 1958 | 35 | DET | 66 | 124 | 8 | 40 | 5 | 23 | 0 | 6 | 25 | .323 | .867 | 143 |
| 1959 | 36 | DET | 60 | 132 | 11 | 30 | 7 | 26 | 0 | 7 | 27 | .227 | .679 | 89 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | OF | 46 | 0 | 73 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950 | OF | 137 | 0 | 306 | 9 | 10 | 2 |
| 1951 | OF | 142 | 0 | 334 | 18 | 10 | 3 |
| 1952 | OF | 141 | 0 | 302 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| 1953 | OF | 141 | 0 | 300 | 17 | 9 | 2 |
| 1954 | OF | 90 | 87 | 180 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| 1954 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | OF | 103 | 102 | 231 | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| 1956 | OF | 69 | 69 | 111 | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| 1957 | OF | 113 | 111 | 213 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
| 1957 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1958 | OF | 24 | 24 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1959 | 1B | 32 | 31 | 197 | 10 | 6 | 20 |
| 1959 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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 (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1953, 1951.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 20 | 15 / 336 | 0 |
| 1953 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 18 | 16 / 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.