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Lew Fonseca played 12 major-league seasons (1921-1933) as a 1B (375), 2B (363), OF (119), 3B (22), SS (4). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 22 | CIN | 82 | 297 | 38 | 82 | 1 | 41 | 2 | 8 | 13 | .276 | .644 | 76 |
| 1922 | 23 | CIN | 81 | 291 | 55 | 105 | 4 | 45 | 7 | 14 | 18 | .361 | .882 | 134 |
| 1923 | 24 | CIN | 65 | 237 | 33 | 66 | 3 | 28 | 4 | 9 | 16 | .278 | .707 | 91 |
| 1924 | 25 | CIN | 20 | 57 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | .228 | .577 | 59 |
| 1925 | 26 | PHI | 126 | 467 | 78 | 149 | 7 | 60 | 6 | 21 | 42 | .319 | .802 | 110 |
| 1927 | 28 | CLE | 112 | 428 | 60 | 133 | 2 | 40 | 12 | 12 | 17 | .311 | .737 | 96 |
| 1928 | 29 | CLE | 75 | 263 | 38 | 86 | 3 | 36 | 4 | 13 | 17 | .327 | .825 | 122 |
| 1929 | 30 | CLE | 148 | 566 | 97 | 209 | 6 | 103 | 19 | 50 | 23 | .369 | .959 | 153 |
| 1930 | 31 | CLE | 40 | 129 | 20 | 36 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 7 | .279 | .696 | 80 |
| 1931 | 32 | CLE|CHA | 147 | 573 | 86 | 179 | 3 | 85 | 7 | 40 | 29 | .312 | .772 | 109 |
| 1932 | 33 | CHA | 18 | 37 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .135 | .320 | -14 |
| 1933 | 34 | CHA | 23 | 59 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 6 | .203 | .627 | 71 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 33 | CHA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 2B | 50 | 0 | 125 | 149 | 11 | 20 |
| 1921 | 1B | 16 | 0 | 150 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| 1921 | OF | 16 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1922 | 2B | 71 | 0 | 197 | 251 | 14 | 40 |
| 1923 | 2B | 45 | 0 | 123 | 169 | 13 | 27 |
| 1923 | 1B | 14 | 0 | 129 | 7 | 2 | 10 |
| 1924 | 2B | 10 | 0 | 11 | 27 | 0 | 3 |
| 1924 | 1B | 6 | 0 | 51 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 1925 | 2B | 69 | 0 | 150 | 219 | 17 | 31 |
| 1925 | 1B | 55 | 0 | 498 | 26 | 3 | 37 |
| 1927 | 2B | 96 | 0 | 229 | 304 | 15 | 51 |
| 1927 | 1B | 13 | 0 | 118 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 1928 | 1B | 56 | 0 | 541 | 41 | 0 | 65 |
| 1928 | 3B | 15 | 0 | 11 | 32 | 3 | 1 |
| 1928 | SS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1928 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929 | 1B | 147 | 0 | 1486 | 107 | 8 | 141 |
| 1930 | 1B | 28 | 0 | 274 | 24 | 6 | 15 |
| 1930 | 3B | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| 1931 | OF | 95 | 0 | 183 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1B | 28 | 0 | 289 | 15 | 2 | 19 |
| 1931 | 2B | 21 | 0 | 46 | 49 | 2 | 8 |
| 1931 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932 | OF | 8 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1932 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933 | 1B | 12 | 0 | 138 | 12 | 0 | 15 |
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.
Lew Fonseca won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1929 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1928.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 22 | 2 / 64 | 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.