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Paul Richards played 8 major-league seasons (1932-1946) as a C (486). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 24 | BRO | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1933 | 25 | NY1 | 51 | 87 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 12 | .195 | .452 | 34 |
| 1934 | 26 | NY1 | 42 | 75 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 8 | .160 | .457 | 29 |
| 1935 | 27 | PHA | 85 | 257 | 31 | 63 | 4 | 29 | 0 | 24 | 12 | .245 | .648 | 72 |
| 1935 | 27 | NY1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .250 | .750 | 115 |
| 1943 | 35 | DET | 100 | 313 | 32 | 69 | 5 | 33 | 1 | 38 | 35 | .220 | .604 | 82 |
| 1944 | 36 | DET | 95 | 300 | 24 | 71 | 3 | 37 | 8 | 35 | 30 | .237 | .628 | 86 |
| 1945 | 37 | DET | 83 | 234 | 26 | 60 | 3 | 32 | 4 | 19 | 31 | .256 | .670 | 100 |
| 1946 | 38 | DET | 57 | 139 | 13 | 28 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 23 | 18 | .201 | .581 | 69 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | C | 3 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 1933 | C | 36 | 0 | 74 | 17 | 1 | 2 |
| 1934 | C | 37 | 0 | 86 | 15 | 0 | 3 |
| 1935 | C | 83 | 0 | 300 | 42 | 8 | 5 |
| 1943 | C | 100 | 0 | 537 | 86 | 9 | 12 |
| 1944 | C | 90 | 0 | 413 | 60 | 10 | 13 |
| 1945 | C | 83 | 0 | 361 | 44 | 2 | 7 |
| 1946 | C | 54 | 0 | 311 | 35 | 1 | 6 |
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.
Paul Richards won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1945 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1945 (ML), TSN All-Star 1945 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1945, 1944.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 18 | 8 / 336 | 0 |
| 1945 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 10 | 35 / 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.