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Jim Bunning played 17 major-league seasons (1955-1971) as a P (591). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 17 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 24 | DET | 15 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .200 | .400 | 12 |
| 1956 | 25 | DET | 15 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .333 | .778 | 110 |
| 1957 | 26 | DET | 45 | 94 | 10 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 29 | .213 | .540 | 52 |
| 1958 | 27 | DET | 36 | 75 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 24 | .187 | .431 | 23 |
| 1959 | 28 | DET | 40 | 89 | 7 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 25 | .191 | .481 | 36 |
| 1960 | 29 | DET | 38 | 81 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 22 | .160 | .361 | 1 |
| 1961 | 30 | DET | 38 | 100 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 30 | .130 | .287 | -20 |
| 1962 | 31 | DET | 43 | 95 | 9 | 23 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | .242 | .571 | 58 |
| 1963 | 32 | DET | 41 | 84 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 15 | .155 | .384 | 12 |
| 1964 | 33 | PHI | 41 | 99 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 29 | .121 | .261 | -24 |
| 1965 | 34 | PHI | 39 | 103 | 6 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 25 | .214 | .474 | 38 |
| 1966 | 35 | PHI | 43 | 106 | 10 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 39 | .179 | .408 | 17 |
| 1967 | 36 | PHI | 40 | 104 | 8 | 17 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 33 | .163 | .421 | 24 |
| 1968 | 37 | PIT | 27 | 51 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | .098 | .216 | -33 |
| 1969 | 38 | PIT|LAN | 34 | 65 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 18 | .062 | .164 | -51 |
| 1970 | 39 | PHI | 35 | 71 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 18 | .127 | .275 | -23 |
| 1971 | 40 | PHI | 31 | 25 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | .120 | .388 | 12 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 24 | DET | 15 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 51 | 37 | 32 | 6.35 | 62 |
| 1956 | 25 | DET | 15 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 53.1 | 34 | 28 | 3.71 | 112 |
| 1957 | 26 | DET | 45 | 30 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 267.1 | 182 | 72 | 2.69 | 141 |
| 1958 | 27 | DET | 35 | 34 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 219.2 | 177 | 79 | 3.52 | 107 |
| 1959 | 28 | DET | 40 | 35 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 249.2 | 201 | 75 | 3.89 | 99 |
| 1960 | 29 | DET | 36 | 34 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 252 | 201 | 64 | 2.79 | 139 |
| 1961 | 30 | DET | 38 | 37 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 268 | 194 | 71 | 3.19 | 126 |
| 1962 | 31 | DET | 41 | 35 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 258 | 184 | 74 | 3.59 | 110 |
| 1963 | 32 | DET | 39 | 35 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 248.1 | 196 | 69 | 3.88 | 94 |
| 1964 | 33 | PHI | 41 | 39 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 284.1 | 219 | 46 | 2.63 | 134 |
| 1965 | 34 | PHI | 39 | 39 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 291 | 268 | 62 | 2.60 | 136 |
| 1966 | 35 | PHI | 43 | 41 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 314 | 252 | 55 | 2.41 | 150 |
| 1967 | 36 | PHI | 40 | 40 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 302.1 | 253 | 73 | 2.29 | 147 |
| 1968 | 37 | PIT | 27 | 26 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 160 | 95 | 48 | 3.88 | 77 |
| 1969 | 38 | PIT|LAN | 34 | 34 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 212.1 | 157 | 59 | 3.69 | 97 |
| 1970 | 39 | PHI | 34 | 33 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 219 | 147 | 56 | 4.11 | 98 |
| 1971 | 40 | PHI | 29 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 110 | 58 | 37 | 5.48 | 63 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | P | 15 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| 1956 | P | 15 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957 | P | 45 | 30 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958 | P | 35 | 34 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959 | P | 40 | 35 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 1 |
| 1960 | P | 36 | 34 | 11 | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| 1961 | P | 38 | 37 | 21 | 29 | 3 | 6 |
| 1962 | P | 41 | 35 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 1 |
| 1963 | P | 39 | 35 | 18 | 25 | 1 | 1 |
| 1964 | P | 41 | 39 | 10 | 31 | 3 | 2 |
| 1965 | P | 39 | 39 | 29 | 40 | 3 | 2 |
| 1966 | P | 43 | 41 | 18 | 30 | 2 | 0 |
| 1967 | P | 40 | 40 | 16 | 33 | 1 | 1 |
| 1968 | P | 27 | 26 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 1 |
| 1969 | P | 34 | 34 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 2 |
| 1970 | P | 34 | 33 | 12 | 27 | 2 | 1 |
| 1971 | P | 29 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 1 |
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 Bunning won: TSN All-Star 1957 (ML), TSN All-Star 1964 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (6 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1967, 1964, 1962, 1960, 1957.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 9 | 46 / 336 | 0 |
| 1960 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 24 | 3 / 336 | 0 |
| 1962 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 21 | 8 / 280 | 0 |
| 1964 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 13 | 23 / 280 | 0 |
| 1967 | Cy Young Award | NL | 2 | 1 / 20 | 1 |
| 1967 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 22 | 5 / 280 | 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.