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Johnny Sain played 11 major-league seasons (1942-1955) as a P (412). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 12 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 25 | BSN | 40 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .074 | .181 | -45 |
| 1946 | 29 | BSN | 40 | 94 | 6 | 28 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .298 | .638 | 86 |
| 1947 | 30 | BSN | 40 | 107 | 13 | 37 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .346 | .775 | 113 |
| 1948 | 31 | BSN | 43 | 115 | 11 | 25 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .217 | .485 | 36 |
| 1949 | 32 | BSN | 39 | 97 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .206 | .459 | 27 |
| 1950 | 33 | BSN | 37 | 102 | 9 | 21 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 6 | 3 | .206 | .512 | 40 |
| 1951 | 34 | NYA | 7 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .643 | 77 |
| 1951 | 34 | BSN | 26 | 52 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .212 | .548 | 52 |
| 1952 | 35 | NYA | 47 | 71 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 5 | .268 | .692 | 98 |
| 1953 | 36 | NYA | 41 | 68 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 1 | .250 | .625 | 74 |
| 1954 | 37 | NYA | 45 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .353 | .833 | 136 |
| 1955 | 38 | NYA|KC1 | 28 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 25 | BSN | 40 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 97 | 68 | 63 | 3.90 | 85 |
| 1946 | 29 | BSN | 37 | 34 | 20 | 14 | 2 | 265 | 129 | 87 | 2.21 | 155 |
| 1947 | 30 | BSN | 38 | 35 | 21 | 12 | 1 | 266 | 132 | 79 | 3.52 | 115 |
| 1948 | 31 | BSN | 42 | 39 | 24 | 15 | 1 | 314.2 | 137 | 83 | 2.60 | 152 |
| 1949 | 32 | BSN | 37 | 36 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 243 | 73 | 75 | 4.81 | 84 |
| 1950 | 33 | BSN | 37 | 37 | 20 | 13 | 0 | 278.1 | 96 | 70 | 3.94 | 105 |
| 1951 | 34 | NYA | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 21 | 8 | 4.14 | 100 |
| 1951 | 34 | BSN | 26 | 22 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 160.1 | 63 | 45 | 4.21 | 94 |
| 1952 | 35 | NYA | 35 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 148.1 | 57 | 38 | 3.46 | 106 |
| 1953 | 36 | NYA | 40 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 189 | 84 | 45 | 3.00 | 133 |
| 1954 | 37 | NYA | 45 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 77 | 33 | 15 | 3.16 | 118 |
| 1955 | 38 | NYA|KC1 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 50 | 17 | 11 | 5.58 | 71 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | P | 40 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946 | P | 37 | 0 | 20 | 61 | 1 | 4 |
| 1947 | P | 38 | 0 | 11 | 55 | 3 | 1 |
| 1948 | P | 42 | 0 | 21 | 48 | 2 | 3 |
| 1949 | P | 37 | 0 | 14 | 35 | 3 | 2 |
| 1950 | P | 37 | 0 | 14 | 42 | 4 | 3 |
| 1951 | P | 33 | 0 | 14 | 38 | 1 | 4 |
| 1952 | P | 35 | 0 | 15 | 18 | 3 | 0 |
| 1953 | P | 40 | 0 | 8 | 32 | 2 | 1 |
| 1954 | P | 45 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | P | 28 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 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.
Johnny Sain won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1946 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1948 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1948 (NL), TSN All-Star 1948 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1952, 1950, 1948, 1947, 1946.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 5 | 95 / 336 | 0 |
| 1947 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 17 | 20 / 336 | 0 |
| 1948 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 2 | 223 / 336 | 5 |
| 1950 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 21 | 12 / 336 | 0 |
| 1952 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 31 | 3 / 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.