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Hank Sauer played 15 major-league seasons (1941-1959) as a OF (1,228), 1B (38). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 24 | CIN | 9 | 33 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .303 | .748 | 117 |
| 1942 | 25 | CIN | 7 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .250 | .868 | 160 |
| 1945 | 28 | CIN | 31 | 116 | 18 | 34 | 5 | 20 | 2 | 6 | 16 | .293 | .759 | 117 |
| 1948 | 31 | CIN | 145 | 530 | 78 | 138 | 35 | 97 | 2 | 60 | 85 | .260 | .844 | 134 |
| 1949 | 32 | CIN|CHN | 138 | 509 | 81 | 140 | 31 | 99 | 0 | 55 | 66 | .275 | .856 | 135 |
| 1950 | 33 | CHN | 145 | 540 | 85 | 148 | 32 | 103 | 1 | 60 | 67 | .274 | .868 | 133 |
| 1951 | 34 | CHN | 141 | 525 | 77 | 138 | 30 | 89 | 2 | 45 | 77 | .263 | .810 | 123 |
| 1952 | 35 | CHN | 151 | 567 | 89 | 153 | 37 | 121 | 1 | 77 | 92 | .270 | .892 | 154 |
| 1953 | 36 | CHN | 108 | 395 | 61 | 104 | 19 | 60 | 0 | 50 | 56 | .263 | .822 | 119 |
| 1954 | 37 | CHN | 142 | 520 | 98 | 150 | 41 | 103 | 2 | 70 | 68 | .288 | .938 | 149 |
| 1955 | 38 | CHN | 79 | 261 | 29 | 55 | 12 | 28 | 0 | 26 | 47 | .211 | .673 | 82 |
| 1956 | 39 | SLN | 75 | 151 | 11 | 45 | 5 | 24 | 0 | 25 | 31 | .298 | .827 | 130 |
| 1957 | 40 | NY1 | 127 | 378 | 46 | 98 | 26 | 76 | 1 | 49 | 59 | .259 | .851 | 133 |
| 1958 | 41 | SFN | 88 | 236 | 27 | 59 | 12 | 46 | 0 | 35 | 37 | .250 | .790 | 115 |
| 1959 | 42 | SFN | 13 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .067 | .333 | -13 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | OF | 8 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1942 | 1B | 4 | 0 | 37 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1945 | OF | 28 | 0 | 69 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1945 | 1B | 3 | 0 | 31 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 1948 | OF | 132 | 0 | 270 | 14 | 8 | 6 |
| 1948 | 1B | 12 | 0 | 89 | 8 | 1 | 4 |
| 1949 | OF | 135 | 0 | 301 | 16 | 9 | 2 |
| 1949 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950 | OF | 125 | 0 | 236 | 12 | 9 | 1 |
| 1950 | 1B | 18 | 0 | 145 | 17 | 4 | 11 |
| 1951 | OF | 132 | 0 | 286 | 19 | 6 | 2 |
| 1952 | OF | 151 | 0 | 327 | 17 | 6 | 3 |
| 1953 | OF | 105 | 0 | 221 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
| 1954 | OF | 141 | 141 | 282 | 8 | 11 | 2 |
| 1955 | OF | 68 | 68 | 122 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 1956 | OF | 37 | 34 | 55 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1957 | OF | 98 | 97 | 125 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 1958 | OF | 67 | 64 | 93 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 1959 | OF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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.
Hank Sauer won: MVP 1952 (NL), TSN All-Star 1952 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (6 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1954, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1949, 1948.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 32 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1949 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 21 | 8 / 336 | 0 |
| 1950 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 29 | 5 / 336 | 0 |
| 1951 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 24 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1952 | Most Valuable Player (winner) | NL | 1 | 226 / 336 | 8 |
| 1954 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 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.