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Mel Parnell played 10 major-league seasons (1947-1956) as a P (289). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 10 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 25 | BOS | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .056 | .111 | -68 |
| 1948 | 26 | BOS | 35 | 80 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 11 | .163 | .348 | -5 |
| 1949 | 27 | BOS | 39 | 114 | 9 | 29 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 10 | .254 | .554 | 52 |
| 1950 | 28 | BOS | 40 | 98 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 13 | .194 | .485 | 28 |
| 1951 | 29 | BOS | 37 | 81 | 12 | 25 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 10 | .309 | .709 | 97 |
| 1952 | 30 | BOS | 35 | 84 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 12 | .095 | .310 | -10 |
| 1953 | 31 | BOS | 38 | 94 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 16 | .223 | .521 | 45 |
| 1954 | 32 | BOS | 19 | 34 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | .088 | .257 | -27 |
| 1955 | 33 | BOS | 14 | 19 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .316 | .684 | 90 |
| 1956 | 34 | BOS | 21 | 46 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | .152 | .361 | -1 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 25 | BOS | 15 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 50.2 | 23 | 27 | 6.39 | 58 |
| 1948 | 26 | BOS | 35 | 27 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 212 | 77 | 90 | 3.14 | 137 |
| 1949 | 27 | BOS | 39 | 33 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 295.1 | 122 | 134 | 2.77 | 151 |
| 1950 | 28 | BOS | 40 | 31 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 249 | 93 | 106 | 3.61 | 127 |
| 1951 | 29 | BOS | 36 | 29 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 221 | 77 | 77 | 3.26 | 127 |
| 1952 | 30 | BOS | 33 | 29 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 214 | 107 | 89 | 3.62 | 102 |
| 1953 | 31 | BOS | 38 | 34 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 241 | 136 | 116 | 3.06 | 130 |
| 1954 | 32 | BOS | 19 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 92.1 | 38 | 35 | 3.70 | 100 |
| 1955 | 33 | BOS | 13 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 46 | 18 | 25 | 7.83 | 51 |
| 1956 | 34 | BOS | 21 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 131.1 | 41 | 59 | 3.77 | 110 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | P | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 1948 | P | 35 | 0 | 9 | 48 | 1 | 3 |
| 1949 | P | 39 | 0 | 8 | 53 | 0 | 5 |
| 1950 | P | 40 | 0 | 7 | 67 | 1 | 6 |
| 1951 | P | 36 | 0 | 8 | 42 | 3 | 2 |
| 1952 | P | 33 | 0 | 15 | 38 | 0 | 4 |
| 1953 | P | 38 | 0 | 10 | 27 | 2 | 4 |
| 1954 | P | 19 | 15 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 1 |
| 1955 | P | 13 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 1956 | P | 21 | 20 | 7 | 19 | 2 | 2 |
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.
Mel Parnell won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1949 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1949 (ML), TSN All-Star 1949 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1953, 1951, 1950, 1949.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 4 | 151 / 336 | 1 |
| 1950 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 22 | 7 / 336 | 0 |
| 1951 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 24 | 7 / 336 | 0 |
| 1953 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 14 | 27 / 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.