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Pepper Martin played 13 major-league seasons (1928-1944) as a OF (613), 3B (429), P (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 13 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 24 | SLN | 39 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | .308 | .708 | 94 |
| 1930 | 26 | SLN | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1931 | 27 | SLN | 123 | 413 | 68 | 124 | 7 | 75 | 16 | 30 | 40 | .300 | .818 | 126 |
| 1932 | 28 | SLN | 85 | 323 | 47 | 77 | 4 | 34 | 9 | 30 | 31 | .238 | .677 | 87 |
| 1933 | 29 | SLN | 145 | 599 | 122 | 189 | 8 | 57 | 26 | 67 | 46 | .316 | .843 | 148 |
| 1934 | 30 | SLN | 110 | 454 | 74 | 131 | 5 | 49 | 23 | 32 | 41 | .289 | .762 | 109 |
| 1935 | 31 | SLN | 135 | 539 | 121 | 161 | 9 | 54 | 20 | 33 | 58 | .299 | .789 | 117 |
| 1936 | 32 | SLN | 143 | 572 | 121 | 177 | 11 | 76 | 23 | 58 | 66 | .309 | .842 | 132 |
| 1937 | 33 | SLN | 98 | 339 | 60 | 103 | 5 | 38 | 9 | 33 | 50 | .304 | .841 | 135 |
| 1938 | 34 | SLN | 91 | 269 | 34 | 79 | 2 | 38 | 4 | 18 | 34 | .294 | .738 | 109 |
| 1939 | 35 | SLN | 88 | 281 | 48 | 86 | 3 | 37 | 6 | 30 | 35 | .306 | .823 | 128 |
| 1940 | 36 | SLN | 86 | 228 | 28 | 72 | 3 | 39 | 6 | 22 | 24 | .316 | .835 | 137 |
| 1944 | 40 | SLN | 40 | 86 | 15 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 11 | .279 | .781 | 127 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 30 | SLN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | 90 |
| 1936 | 32 | SLN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | — |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | OF | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931 | OF | 110 | 0 | 282 | 10 | 10 | 2 |
| 1932 | OF | 69 | 0 | 151 | 10 | 4 | 3 |
| 1932 | 3B | 15 | 0 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 1 |
| 1933 | 3B | 145 | 0 | 139 | 273 | 25 | 14 |
| 1934 | 3B | 107 | 0 | 85 | 195 | 19 | 7 |
| 1934 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935 | 3B | 114 | 0 | 113 | 171 | 30 | 17 |
| 1935 | OF | 16 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1936 | OF | 127 | 0 | 226 | 13 | 6 | 5 |
| 1936 | 3B | 15 | 0 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 1 |
| 1936 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937 | OF | 82 | 0 | 204 | 12 | 6 | 3 |
| 1937 | 3B | 5 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 |
| 1938 | OF | 62 | 0 | 138 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 1938 | 3B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939 | OF | 51 | 0 | 113 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1939 | 3B | 22 | 0 | 15 | 30 | 4 | 2 |
| 1940 | OF | 63 | 0 | 103 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| 1940 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944 | OF | 29 | 0 | 48 | 1 | 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.
Pepper Martin won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1935 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1935 (NL), TSN All-Star 1935 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1940, 1935, 1933.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 5 | 31 / 80 | 0 |
| 1935 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 10 | 16 / 80 | 0 |
| 1940 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 33 | 2 / 336 | 0 |
Pepper Martin ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #141 | third basemen | 1933 | 148 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.