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Joe Kuhel played 18 major-league seasons (1930-1947) as a 1B (2,057). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 18 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 24 | WS1 | 18 | 63 | 9 | 18 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 6 | .286 | .776 | 101 |
| 1931 | 25 | WS1 | 139 | 524 | 70 | 141 | 8 | 85 | 7 | 47 | 45 | .269 | .745 | 101 |
| 1932 | 26 | WS1 | 101 | 347 | 52 | 101 | 4 | 52 | 5 | 32 | 19 | .291 | .768 | 105 |
| 1933 | 27 | WS1 | 153 | 602 | 89 | 194 | 11 | 107 | 17 | 59 | 48 | .322 | .851 | 132 |
| 1934 | 28 | WS1 | 63 | 263 | 49 | 76 | 3 | 25 | 2 | 30 | 14 | .289 | .756 | 102 |
| 1935 | 29 | WS1 | 151 | 633 | 99 | 165 | 2 | 74 | 5 | 78 | 44 | .261 | .684 | 83 |
| 1936 | 30 | WS1 | 149 | 588 | 107 | 189 | 16 | 118 | 15 | 64 | 30 | .321 | .893 | 127 |
| 1937 | 31 | WS1 | 136 | 547 | 73 | 155 | 6 | 61 | 6 | 63 | 39 | .283 | .758 | 97 |
| 1938 | 32 | CHA | 117 | 412 | 67 | 110 | 8 | 51 | 9 | 72 | 35 | .267 | .786 | 104 |
| 1939 | 33 | CHA | 139 | 546 | 107 | 164 | 15 | 56 | 18 | 64 | 51 | .300 | .836 | 120 |
| 1940 | 34 | CHA | 155 | 603 | 111 | 169 | 27 | 94 | 12 | 87 | 59 | .280 | .861 | 129 |
| 1941 | 35 | CHA | 153 | 600 | 99 | 150 | 12 | 63 | 20 | 70 | 55 | .250 | .723 | 98 |
| 1942 | 36 | CHA | 115 | 413 | 60 | 103 | 4 | 52 | 22 | 60 | 22 | .249 | .679 | 99 |
| 1943 | 37 | CHA | 153 | 531 | 55 | 113 | 5 | 46 | 14 | 76 | 45 | .213 | .604 | 83 |
| 1944 | 38 | WS1 | 139 | 518 | 90 | 144 | 4 | 51 | 11 | 68 | 40 | .278 | .742 | 119 |
| 1945 | 39 | WS1 | 142 | 533 | 73 | 152 | 2 | 75 | 10 | 79 | 31 | .285 | .778 | 132 |
| 1946 | 40 | WS1|CHA | 78 | 258 | 26 | 68 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 26 | 26 | .264 | .702 | 103 |
| 1947 | 41 | CHA | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 1B | 16 | 0 | 149 | 8 | 3 | 10 |
| 1931 | 1B | 139 | 0 | 1255 | 57 | 12 | 119 |
| 1932 | 1B | 85 | 0 | 761 | 45 | 5 | 64 |
| 1933 | 1B | 153 | 0 | 1498 | 61 | 7 | 126 |
| 1934 | 1B | 63 | 0 | 618 | 23 | 4 | 62 |
| 1935 | 1B | 151 | 0 | 1425 | 87 | 14 | 150 |
| 1936 | 1B | 149 | 0 | 1452 | 73 | 10 | 138 |
| 1937 | 1B | 136 | 0 | 1242 | 85 | 9 | 141 |
| 1938 | 1B | 111 | 0 | 1136 | 59 | 14 | 97 |
| 1939 | 1B | 136 | 0 | 1256 | 72 | 11 | 113 |
| 1940 | 1B | 155 | 0 | 1395 | 91 | 18 | 112 |
| 1941 | 1B | 151 | 0 | 1444 | 108 | 10 | 113 |
| 1942 | 1B | 112 | 0 | 1085 | 70 | 11 | 94 |
| 1943 | 1B | 153 | 0 | 1471 | 106 | 8 | 143 |
| 1944 | 1B | 138 | 0 | 1251 | 83 | 17 | 119 |
| 1945 | 1B | 141 | 0 | 1323 | 94 | 16 | 101 |
| 1946 | 1B | 68 | 0 | 625 | 41 | 4 | 67 |
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 (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1945, 1940, 1939, 1936, 1933.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 18 | 5 / 80 | 0 |
| 1936 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 7 | 27 / 80 | 0 |
| 1939 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 21 | 8 / 336 | 0 |
| 1940 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 13 | 18 / 336 | 0 |
| 1945 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 12 | 29 / 336 | 1 |
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.