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Jim Bottomley played 16 major-league seasons (1922-1937) as a 1B (1,885), 2B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 16 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 22 | SLN | 37 | 151 | 29 | 49 | 5 | 35 | 3 | 6 | 13 | .325 | .902 | 137 |
| 1923 | 23 | SLN | 134 | 523 | 79 | 194 | 8 | 94 | 4 | 45 | 44 | .371 | .960 | 160 |
| 1924 | 24 | SLN | 137 | 528 | 87 | 167 | 14 | 111 | 5 | 35 | 35 | .316 | .862 | 135 |
| 1925 | 25 | SLN | 153 | 619 | 92 | 227 | 21 | 128 | 3 | 47 | 36 | .367 | .992 | 158 |
| 1926 | 26 | SLN | 154 | 603 | 98 | 180 | 19 | 120 | 4 | 58 | 52 | .299 | .870 | 139 |
| 1927 | 27 | SLN | 152 | 574 | 95 | 174 | 19 | 124 | 8 | 74 | 49 | .303 | .896 | 146 |
| 1928 | 28 | SLN | 149 | 576 | 123 | 187 | 31 | 136 | 10 | 71 | 54 | .325 | 1.030 | 175 |
| 1929 | 29 | SLN | 146 | 560 | 108 | 176 | 29 | 137 | 3 | 70 | 54 | .314 | .959 | 143 |
| 1930 | 30 | SLN | 131 | 487 | 92 | 148 | 15 | 97 | 5 | 44 | 36 | .304 | .860 | 112 |
| 1931 | 31 | SLN | 108 | 382 | 73 | 133 | 9 | 75 | 3 | 34 | 24 | .348 | .937 | 159 |
| 1932 | 32 | SLN | 91 | 311 | 45 | 92 | 11 | 48 | 2 | 25 | 32 | .296 | .823 | 126 |
| 1933 | 33 | CIN | 145 | 549 | 57 | 137 | 13 | 83 | 3 | 42 | 28 | .250 | .706 | 107 |
| 1934 | 34 | CIN | 142 | 556 | 72 | 158 | 11 | 78 | 1 | 33 | 40 | .284 | .763 | 109 |
| 1935 | 35 | CIN | 107 | 399 | 44 | 103 | 1 | 49 | 3 | 18 | 24 | .258 | .617 | 71 |
| 1936 | 36 | SLA | 140 | 544 | 72 | 162 | 12 | 95 | 0 | 44 | 55 | .298 | .830 | 111 |
| 1937 | 37 | SLA | 65 | 109 | 11 | 26 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 18 | 15 | .239 | .677 | 77 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 1B | 34 | 0 | 346 | 12 | 5 | 22 |
| 1923 | 1B | 130 | 0 | 1264 | 43 | 18 | 95 |
| 1924 | 1B | 133 | 0 | 1297 | 48 | 24 | 110 |
| 1924 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1925 | 1B | 153 | 0 | 1466 | 74 | 21 | 133 |
| 1926 | 1B | 154 | 0 | 1607 | 54 | 19 | 118 |
| 1927 | 1B | 152 | 0 | 1656 | 70 | 20 | 149 |
| 1928 | 1B | 148 | 0 | 1454 | 52 | 20 | 113 |
| 1929 | 1B | 145 | 0 | 1347 | 75 | 13 | 122 |
| 1930 | 1B | 124 | 0 | 1164 | 41 | 12 | 127 |
| 1931 | 1B | 93 | 0 | 897 | 43 | 12 | 95 |
| 1932 | 1B | 74 | 0 | 662 | 41 | 10 | 67 |
| 1933 | 1B | 145 | 0 | 1511 | 72 | 15 | 112 |
| 1934 | 1B | 139 | 0 | 1303 | 77 | 15 | 106 |
| 1935 | 1B | 97 | 0 | 934 | 53 | 8 | 74 |
| 1936 | 1B | 140 | 0 | 1250 | 47 | 10 | 103 |
| 1937 | 1B | 24 | 0 | 179 | 12 | 1 | 16 |
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.
Jim Bottomley won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1925 (NL), TSN All-Star 1925 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1928 (NL), MVP 1928 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (6 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1933, 1931, 1928, 1927, 1925, 1924.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 17 | 4 / 80 | 0 |
| 1925 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 7 | 28 / 80 | 0 |
| 1927 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 13 | 6 / 80 | 0 |
| 1928 | Most Valuable Player (winner) | NL | 1 | 76 / 80 | 0 |
| 1931 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 15 | 8 / 80 | 0 |
| 1933 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 17 | 6 / 80 | 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.