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Johnny Vander Meer played 13 major-league seasons (1937-1951) as a P (346). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 23 | CIN | 21 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | .217 | .584 | 64 |
| 1938 | 24 | CIN | 33 | 83 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23 | .181 | .361 | 3 |
| 1939 | 25 | CIN | 30 | 36 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | .111 | .318 | -11 |
| 1940 | 26 | CIN | 12 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .300 | .733 | 109 |
| 1941 | 27 | CIN | 35 | 76 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 18 | .132 | .299 | -13 |
| 1942 | 28 | CIN | 37 | 75 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 26 | .147 | .370 | 13 |
| 1943 | 29 | CIN | 40 | 95 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 28 | .137 | .359 | 8 |
| 1946 | 32 | CIN | 33 | 73 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 21 | .247 | .531 | 55 |
| 1947 | 33 | CIN | 31 | 57 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 18 | .088 | .256 | -29 |
| 1948 | 34 | CIN | 41 | 78 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 21 | .141 | .417 | 17 |
| 1949 | 35 | CIN | 33 | 52 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 17 | .077 | .249 | -29 |
| 1950 | 36 | CHN | 35 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | .125 | .426 | 15 |
| 1951 | 37 | CLE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 23 | CIN | 19 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 84.1 | 52 | 69 | 3.84 | 102 |
| 1938 | 24 | CIN | 32 | 29 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 225.1 | 125 | 103 | 3.12 | 121 |
| 1939 | 25 | CIN | 30 | 21 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 129 | 102 | 95 | 4.67 | 84 |
| 1940 | 26 | CIN | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 41 | 41 | 3.75 | 103 |
| 1941 | 27 | CIN | 33 | 32 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 226.1 | 202 | 126 | 2.82 | 129 |
| 1942 | 28 | CIN | 33 | 33 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 244 | 186 | 102 | 2.43 | 136 |
| 1943 | 29 | CIN | 36 | 36 | 15 | 16 | 0 | 289 | 174 | 162 | 2.87 | 118 |
| 1946 | 32 | CIN | 29 | 25 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 204.1 | 94 | 78 | 3.17 | 108 |
| 1947 | 33 | CIN | 30 | 29 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 186 | 79 | 87 | 4.40 | 92 |
| 1948 | 34 | CIN | 33 | 33 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 232 | 120 | 124 | 3.41 | 116 |
| 1949 | 35 | CIN | 28 | 24 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 159.2 | 76 | 85 | 4.90 | 82 |
| 1950 | 36 | CHN | 32 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 73.2 | 41 | 59 | 3.79 | 109 |
| 1951 | 37 | CLE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 18.00 | 23 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | P | 19 | 0 | 7 | 23 | 0 | 1 |
| 1938 | P | 32 | 0 | 8 | 38 | 3 | 0 |
| 1939 | P | 30 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 5 |
| 1940 | P | 10 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941 | P | 33 | 0 | 10 | 47 | 2 | 3 |
| 1942 | P | 33 | 0 | 6 | 51 | 2 | 4 |
| 1943 | P | 36 | 0 | 11 | 67 | 4 | 7 |
| 1946 | P | 29 | 0 | 6 | 33 | 3 | 2 |
| 1947 | P | 30 | 0 | 8 | 31 | 2 | 1 |
| 1948 | P | 33 | 0 | 11 | 39 | 5 | 3 |
| 1949 | P | 28 | 0 | 6 | 33 | 2 | 4 |
| 1950 | P | 32 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 0 |
| 1951 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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 Vander Meer won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1938 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1938 (NL), TSN All-Star 1938 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1942 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1942 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1948, 1946, 1942, 1938.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 20 | 6 / 336 | 0 |
| 1942 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 21 | 11 / 336 | 0 |
| 1946 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 25 | 7 / 336 | 0 |
| 1948 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 19 | 13 / 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.