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Kirby Higbe played 12 major-league seasons (1937-1950) as a P (418). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 22 | CHN | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1938 | 23 | CHN | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1939 | 24 | CHN|PHI | 43 | 73 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | .178 | .384 | 6 |
| 1940 | 25 | PHI | 41 | 103 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 26 | .165 | .383 | 10 |
| 1941 | 26 | BRO | 48 | 112 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 23 | .188 | .448 | 30 |
| 1942 | 27 | BRO | 38 | 77 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 16 | .104 | .234 | -29 |
| 1943 | 28 | BRO | 35 | 65 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 | .138 | .361 | 8 |
| 1946 | 31 | BRO | 42 | 77 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 11 | .130 | .286 | -17 |
| 1947 | 32 | BRO|PIT | 50 | 77 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | .143 | .385 | 5 |
| 1948 | 33 | PIT | 56 | 48 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | .208 | .500 | 39 |
| 1949 | 34 | PIT|NY1 | 44 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | .056 | .246 | -29 |
| 1950 | 35 | NY1 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .500 | 37 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 22 | CHN | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5.40 | 72 |
| 1938 | 23 | CHN | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 5.40 | 70 |
| 1939 | 24 | CHN|PHI | 43 | 28 | 12 | 15 | 2 | 210 | 95 | 123 | 4.67 | 84 |
| 1940 | 25 | PHI | 41 | 36 | 14 | 19 | 1 | 283 | 137 | 121 | 3.72 | 103 |
| 1941 | 26 | BRO | 48 | 39 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 298 | 121 | 132 | 3.14 | 116 |
| 1942 | 27 | BRO | 38 | 32 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 221.2 | 115 | 106 | 3.25 | 102 |
| 1943 | 28 | BRO | 35 | 27 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 185 | 108 | 95 | 3.70 | 91 |
| 1946 | 31 | BRO | 42 | 29 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 210.2 | 134 | 107 | 3.03 | 113 |
| 1947 | 32 | BRO|PIT | 50 | 33 | 13 | 17 | 5 | 240.2 | 109 | 122 | 3.81 | 106 |
| 1948 | 33 | PIT | 56 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 158 | 86 | 83 | 3.36 | 118 |
| 1949 | 34 | PIT|NY1 | 44 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 95.2 | 43 | 53 | 5.08 | 80 |
| 1950 | 35 | NY1 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 34.2 | 17 | 30 | 4.93 | 84 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938 | P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 1939 | P | 43 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940 | P | 41 | 0 | 15 | 47 | 3 | 4 |
| 1941 | P | 48 | 0 | 13 | 39 | 1 | 2 |
| 1942 | P | 38 | 0 | 12 | 36 | 2 | 5 |
| 1943 | P | 35 | 0 | 9 | 27 | 0 | 2 |
| 1946 | P | 42 | 0 | 13 | 40 | 3 | 2 |
| 1947 | P | 50 | 0 | 10 | 26 | 1 | 0 |
| 1948 | P | 56 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| 1949 | P | 44 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 1 |
| 1950 | P | 18 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 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.
Kirby Higbe won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1941 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1946, 1941, 1940.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 21 | 10 / 336 | 0 |
| 1941 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 7 | 64 / 336 | 0 |
| 1946 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 15 | 18 / 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.