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Jim Busby played 13 major-league seasons (1950-1962) as a OF (1,280), 3B (1), C (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 13 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 23 | CHA | 18 | 48 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .208 | .433 | 15 |
| 1951 | 24 | CHA | 143 | 477 | 59 | 135 | 5 | 68 | 26 | 40 | 46 | .283 | .698 | 93 |
| 1952 | 25 | CHA|WS1 | 145 | 551 | 63 | 130 | 2 | 47 | 5 | 24 | 55 | .236 | .578 | 66 |
| 1953 | 26 | WS1 | 150 | 586 | 68 | 183 | 6 | 82 | 13 | 38 | 45 | .312 | .773 | 115 |
| 1954 | 27 | WS1 | 155 | 628 | 83 | 187 | 7 | 80 | 17 | 43 | 56 | .298 | .731 | 107 |
| 1955 | 28 | WS1|CHA | 146 | 528 | 61 | 126 | 7 | 41 | 12 | 38 | 59 | .239 | .626 | 74 |
| 1956 | 29 | CLE | 135 | 494 | 72 | 116 | 12 | 50 | 8 | 43 | 47 | .235 | .656 | 78 |
| 1957 | 30 | CLE|BAL | 116 | 362 | 40 | 86 | 5 | 23 | 6 | 24 | 44 | .238 | .607 | 71 |
| 1958 | 31 | BAL | 113 | 215 | 32 | 51 | 3 | 19 | 6 | 24 | 37 | .237 | .650 | 85 |
| 1959 | 32 | BOS | 61 | 102 | 16 | 23 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 18 | .225 | .599 | 69 |
| 1960 | 33 | BOS|BAL | 80 | 159 | 25 | 41 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 20 | 14 | .258 | .655 | 84 |
| 1961 | 34 | BAL | 75 | 89 | 15 | 23 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 10 | .258 | .631 | 75 |
| 1962 | 35 | HOU | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .182 | .490 | 40 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | OF | 12 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1951 | OF | 139 | 0 | 360 | 16 | 7 | 4 |
| 1952 | OF | 144 | 0 | 472 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1953 | OF | 150 | 0 | 482 | 15 | 6 | 4 |
| 1954 | OF | 155 | 155 | 491 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| 1955 | OF | 146 | 136 | 375 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
| 1956 | OF | 133 | 122 | 344 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1957 | OF | 111 | 96 | 277 | 9 | 5 | 2 |
| 1958 | OF | 103 | 54 | 196 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1958 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959 | OF | 34 | 19 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1960 | OF | 72 | 45 | 133 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 1961 | OF | 71 | 26 | 76 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1962 | OF | 10 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962 | C | 1 | 0 | 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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1954, 1951.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 30 | 2 / 336 | 0 |
| 1954 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 18 | 7 / 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.