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Jim Merritt played 11 major-league seasons (1965-1975) as a P (297). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 8 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 22 | MIN | 16 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14 | .136 | .376 | 14 |
| 1966 | 23 | MIN | 31 | 39 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 16 | .103 | .310 | -6 |
| 1967 | 24 | MIN | 37 | 74 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 33 | .135 | .386 | 19 |
| 1968 | 25 | MIN | 38 | 71 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 22 | .141 | .366 | 16 |
| 1969 | 26 | CIN | 42 | 77 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 37 | .143 | .385 | 12 |
| 1970 | 27 | CIN | 35 | 83 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 42 | .169 | .484 | 34 |
| 1971 | 28 | CIN | 29 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | .138 | .408 | 19 |
| 1972 | 29 | CIN | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 22 | MIN | 16 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 76.2 | 61 | 20 | 3.17 | 109 |
| 1966 | 23 | MIN | 31 | 18 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 144 | 124 | 33 | 3.38 | 102 |
| 1967 | 24 | MIN | 37 | 28 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 227.2 | 161 | 30 | 2.53 | 128 |
| 1968 | 25 | MIN | 38 | 34 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 238.1 | 181 | 52 | 3.25 | 92 |
| 1969 | 26 | CIN | 42 | 36 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 251 | 144 | 61 | 4.37 | 82 |
| 1970 | 27 | CIN | 35 | 35 | 20 | 12 | 0 | 234 | 136 | 53 | 4.08 | 99 |
| 1971 | 28 | CIN | 28 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 107 | 38 | 31 | 4.37 | 79 |
| 1972 | 29 | CIN | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4.50 | 77 |
| 1973 | 30 | TEX | 35 | 19 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 160 | 65 | 34 | 4.05 | 94 |
| 1974 | 31 | TEX | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32.2 | 18 | 6 | 4.13 | 88 |
| 1975 | 32 | TEX | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | P | 16 | 9 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 1 |
| 1966 | P | 31 | 18 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967 | P | 37 | 28 | 4 | 32 | 3 | 1 |
| 1968 | P | 38 | 34 | 7 | 38 | 0 | 2 |
| 1969 | P | 42 | 36 | 7 | 33 | 1 | 1 |
| 1970 | P | 35 | 35 | 5 | 30 | 2 | 1 |
| 1971 | P | 28 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| 1972 | P | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1973 | P | 35 | 19 | 7 | 22 | 2 | 1 |
| 1974 | P | 26 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1975 | P | 5 | 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.
Jim Merritt won: TSN All-Star 1970 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1970.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Cy Young Award | NL | 5 | 8 / 120 | 0 |
| 1970 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 22 | 8 / 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.