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Les Bell played 9 major-league seasons (1923-1931) as a 3B (828), SS (44), 1B (2), 2B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 9 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 22 | SLN | 15 | 51 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 7 | .373 | .918 | 150 |
| 1924 | 23 | SLN | 17 | 57 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 7 | .246 | .716 | 95 |
| 1925 | 24 | SLN | 153 | 586 | 80 | 167 | 11 | 88 | 4 | 43 | 47 | .285 | .755 | 98 |
| 1926 | 25 | SLN | 155 | 581 | 85 | 189 | 17 | 100 | 9 | 54 | 62 | .325 | .901 | 148 |
| 1927 | 26 | SLN | 115 | 390 | 48 | 101 | 9 | 65 | 5 | 34 | 63 | .259 | .746 | 105 |
| 1928 | 27 | BSN | 153 | 591 | 58 | 164 | 10 | 91 | 1 | 40 | 45 | .277 | .736 | 98 |
| 1929 | 28 | BSN | 139 | 483 | 58 | 144 | 9 | 72 | 4 | 50 | 42 | .298 | .786 | 101 |
| 1930 | 29 | CHN | 74 | 248 | 35 | 69 | 5 | 47 | 1 | 24 | 27 | .278 | .773 | 91 |
| 1931 | 30 | CHN | 75 | 252 | 30 | 71 | 4 | 32 | 0 | 19 | 22 | .282 | .737 | 104 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | SS | 15 | 0 | 35 | 53 | 8 | 9 |
| 1924 | SS | 17 | 0 | 44 | 42 | 9 | 8 |
| 1925 | 3B | 153 | 0 | 151 | 284 | 36 | 39 |
| 1925 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926 | 3B | 155 | 0 | 165 | 254 | 22 | 25 |
| 1927 | 3B | 100 | 0 | 85 | 142 | 24 | 13 |
| 1927 | SS | 10 | 0 | 16 | 41 | 6 | 8 |
| 1928 | 3B | 153 | 0 | 177 | 314 | 27 | 37 |
| 1929 | 3B | 127 | 0 | 107 | 198 | 15 | 15 |
| 1929 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929 | SS | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1930 | 3B | 70 | 0 | 63 | 102 | 9 | 14 |
| 1930 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 1931 | 3B | 70 | 0 | 66 | 118 | 11 | 18 |
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 (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1926.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 6 | 24 / 80 | 0 |
Les Bell ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #142 | third basemen | 1926 | 148 OPS+ |
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.