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Pinky Whitney played 12 major-league seasons (1928-1939) as a 3B (1,358), 2B (119), 1B (16), SS (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 12 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 23 | PHI | 151 | 585 | 73 | 176 | 10 | 103 | 3 | 36 | 30 | .301 | .768 | 107 |
| 1929 | 24 | PHI | 154 | 612 | 89 | 200 | 8 | 115 | 7 | 61 | 35 | .327 | .872 | 122 |
| 1930 | 25 | PHI | 149 | 606 | 87 | 207 | 8 | 117 | 3 | 40 | 41 | .342 | .849 | 110 |
| 1931 | 26 | PHI | 130 | 501 | 64 | 144 | 9 | 74 | 6 | 30 | 38 | .287 | .765 | 111 |
| 1932 | 27 | PHI | 154 | 624 | 93 | 186 | 13 | 124 | 6 | 35 | 66 | .298 | .784 | 116 |
| 1933 | 28 | PHI|BSN | 131 | 503 | 54 | 126 | 11 | 68 | 3 | 33 | 31 | .250 | .665 | 95 |
| 1934 | 29 | BSN | 146 | 563 | 58 | 146 | 12 | 79 | 7 | 25 | 54 | .259 | .671 | 84 |
| 1935 | 30 | BSN | 126 | 458 | 41 | 125 | 4 | 60 | 2 | 24 | 36 | .273 | .679 | 88 |
| 1936 | 31 | BSN|PHI | 124 | 451 | 45 | 128 | 6 | 64 | 2 | 39 | 37 | .284 | .718 | 99 |
| 1937 | 32 | PHI | 138 | 487 | 56 | 166 | 8 | 79 | 6 | 43 | 44 | .341 | .841 | 136 |
| 1938 | 33 | PHI | 102 | 300 | 27 | 83 | 3 | 38 | 0 | 27 | 22 | .277 | .680 | 94 |
| 1939 | 34 | PHI | 34 | 75 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 4 | .187 | .509 | 42 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 3B | 149 | 0 | 171 | 293 | 22 | 27 |
| 1929 | 3B | 154 | 0 | 168 | 333 | 17 | 29 |
| 1930 | 3B | 148 | 0 | 186 | 313 | 18 | 29 |
| 1931 | 3B | 128 | 0 | 131 | 217 | 19 | 21 |
| 1932 | 3B | 151 | 0 | 177 | 276 | 19 | 31 |
| 1932 | 2B | 5 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 5 |
| 1933 | 3B | 115 | 0 | 107 | 235 | 11 | 21 |
| 1933 | 2B | 18 | 0 | 39 | 53 | 0 | 8 |
| 1934 | 3B | 111 | 0 | 105 | 227 | 11 | 11 |
| 1934 | 2B | 36 | 0 | 65 | 116 | 6 | 19 |
| 1934 | SS | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1935 | 3B | 74 | 0 | 83 | 144 | 10 | 8 |
| 1935 | 2B | 49 | 0 | 113 | 161 | 7 | 17 |
| 1936 | 3B | 121 | 0 | 121 | 230 | 16 | 17 |
| 1936 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937 | 3B | 130 | 0 | 136 | 238 | 7 | 17 |
| 1938 | 3B | 75 | 0 | 68 | 131 | 14 | 8 |
| 1938 | 1B | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1938 | 2B | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939 | 1B | 12 | 0 | 96 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 1939 | 2B | 8 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 2 |
| 1939 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 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.
Pinky Whitney won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1937 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1937 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1937, 1929, 1928.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 20 | 3 / 80 | 0 |
| 1929 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 22 | 2 / 80 | 0 |
| 1937 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 13 | 13 / 80 | 0 |
Pinky Whitney ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #157 | third basemen | 1937 | 136 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.