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Monte Irvin played 8 major-league seasons (1949-1956) as a OF (585), 1B (104), 3B (7). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 8 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 30 | NY1 | 36 | 76 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 17 | 11 | .224 | .681 | 91 |
| 1950 | 31 | NY1 | 110 | 374 | 61 | 112 | 15 | 66 | 3 | 52 | 41 | .299 | .889 | 141 |
| 1951 | 32 | NY1 | 151 | 558 | 94 | 174 | 24 | 121 | 12 | 89 | 44 | .312 | .929 | 157 |
| 1952 | 33 | NY1 | 46 | 126 | 10 | 39 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 10 | 11 | .310 | .801 | 130 |
| 1953 | 34 | NY1 | 124 | 444 | 72 | 146 | 21 | 97 | 2 | 55 | 34 | .329 | .947 | 153 |
| 1954 | 35 | NY1 | 135 | 432 | 62 | 113 | 19 | 64 | 7 | 70 | 23 | .262 | .801 | 115 |
| 1955 | 36 | NY1 | 51 | 150 | 16 | 38 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 17 | 15 | .253 | .671 | 84 |
| 1956 | 37 | CHN | 111 | 339 | 44 | 92 | 15 | 50 | 1 | 41 | 41 | .271 | .807 | 122 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | OF | 10 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949 | 1B | 5 | 0 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1949 | 3B | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| 1950 | 1B | 59 | 0 | 459 | 48 | 11 | 62 |
| 1950 | OF | 49 | 0 | 109 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1950 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951 | OF | 112 | 0 | 237 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| 1951 | 1B | 39 | 0 | 348 | 50 | 8 | 47 |
| 1952 | OF | 32 | 0 | 44 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 1953 | OF | 113 | 0 | 244 | 10 | 7 | 4 |
| 1954 | OF | 128 | 118 | 274 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 1954 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1955 | OF | 45 | 39 | 94 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1956 | OF | 96 | 88 | 216 | 6 | 2 | 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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1953, 1952, 1951.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 3 | 166 / 336 | 5 |
| 1952 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 33 | 5 / 336 | 0 |
| 1953 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 15 | 11 / 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.