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Mickey Vernon played 20 major-league seasons (1939-1960) as a 1B (2,237), OF (4). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 20 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 21 | WS1 | 76 | 276 | 23 | 71 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 24 | 28 | .257 | .668 | 76 |
| 1940 | 22 | WS1 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .158 | .316 | -15 |
| 1941 | 23 | WS1 | 138 | 531 | 73 | 159 | 9 | 93 | 9 | 43 | 51 | .299 | .794 | 117 |
| 1942 | 24 | WS1 | 151 | 621 | 76 | 168 | 9 | 86 | 25 | 59 | 63 | .271 | .725 | 111 |
| 1943 | 25 | WS1 | 145 | 553 | 89 | 148 | 7 | 70 | 24 | 67 | 55 | .268 | .744 | 124 |
| 1946 | 28 | WS1 | 148 | 587 | 88 | 207 | 8 | 85 | 14 | 49 | 64 | .353 | .910 | 162 |
| 1947 | 29 | WS1 | 154 | 600 | 77 | 159 | 7 | 85 | 12 | 49 | 42 | .265 | .709 | 103 |
| 1948 | 30 | WS1 | 150 | 558 | 78 | 135 | 3 | 48 | 15 | 54 | 43 | .242 | .641 | 76 |
| 1949 | 31 | CLE | 153 | 584 | 72 | 170 | 18 | 83 | 9 | 58 | 51 | .291 | .801 | 118 |
| 1950 | 32 | CLE|WS1 | 118 | 417 | 55 | 117 | 9 | 75 | 8 | 62 | 39 | .281 | .779 | 106 |
| 1951 | 33 | WS1 | 141 | 546 | 69 | 160 | 9 | 87 | 7 | 53 | 45 | .293 | .781 | 116 |
| 1952 | 34 | WS1 | 154 | 569 | 71 | 143 | 10 | 80 | 7 | 89 | 66 | .251 | .746 | 115 |
| 1953 | 35 | WS1 | 152 | 608 | 101 | 205 | 15 | 115 | 4 | 63 | 57 | .337 | .921 | 155 |
| 1954 | 36 | WS1 | 151 | 597 | 90 | 173 | 20 | 97 | 1 | 61 | 61 | .290 | .850 | 139 |
| 1955 | 37 | WS1 | 150 | 538 | 74 | 162 | 14 | 85 | 0 | 74 | 50 | .301 | .835 | 132 |
| 1956 | 38 | BOS | 119 | 403 | 67 | 125 | 15 | 84 | 1 | 57 | 40 | .310 | .914 | 147 |
| 1957 | 39 | BOS | 102 | 270 | 36 | 65 | 7 | 38 | 0 | 41 | 35 | .241 | .743 | 109 |
| 1958 | 40 | CLE | 119 | 355 | 49 | 104 | 8 | 55 | 0 | 44 | 56 | .293 | .812 | 130 |
| 1959 | 41 | ML1 | 74 | 91 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 20 | .220 | .645 | 77 |
| 1960 | 42 | PIT | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .125 | .347 | 1 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 1B | 75 | 0 | 690 | 40 | 11 | 75 |
| 1940 | 1B | 4 | 0 | 41 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1941 | 1B | 132 | 0 | 1186 | 80 | 10 | 122 |
| 1942 | 1B | 151 | 0 | 1360 | 95 | 26 | 109 |
| 1943 | 1B | 143 | 0 | 1351 | 75 | 14 | 125 |
| 1946 | 1B | 147 | 0 | 1320 | 101 | 15 | 133 |
| 1947 | 1B | 154 | 0 | 1299 | 105 | 19 | 123 |
| 1948 | 1B | 150 | 0 | 1297 | 113 | 15 | 128 |
| 1949 | 1B | 153 | 0 | 1438 | 155 | 14 | 168 |
| 1950 | 1B | 110 | 0 | 959 | 78 | 9 | 121 |
| 1951 | 1B | 137 | 0 | 1157 | 87 | 8 | 121 |
| 1952 | 1B | 153 | 0 | 1291 | 115 | 10 | 139 |
| 1953 | 1B | 152 | 0 | 1376 | 94 | 12 | 158 |
| 1954 | 1B | 148 | 148 | 1365 | 76 | 11 | 144 |
| 1955 | 1B | 144 | 141 | 1258 | 69 | 8 | 137 |
| 1956 | 1B | 108 | 102 | 930 | 58 | 11 | 96 |
| 1957 | 1B | 70 | 68 | 662 | 51 | 6 | 47 |
| 1958 | 1B | 96 | 87 | 774 | 50 | 11 | 90 |
| 1959 | 1B | 10 | 4 | 54 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 1959 | OF | 4 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 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.
Mickey Vernon won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1946 (AL), TSN All-Star 1953 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1946.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 5 | 134 / 336 | 1 |
| 1953 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 3 | 162 / 336 | 0 |
| 1954 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 10 | 30 / 336 | 0 |
| 1955 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 23 | 4 / 336 | 0 |
| 1956 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 21 | 14 / 336 | 0 |
Mickey Vernon ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #136 | first basemen | 1946 | 162 OPS+ |
| #154 | first basemen | 1953 | 155 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.