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Ray Sanders played 7 major-league seasons (1942-1949) as a 1B (596). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 7 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 26 | SLN | 95 | 282 | 37 | 71 | 5 | 39 | 2 | 42 | 31 | .252 | .730 | 121 |
| 1943 | 27 | SLN | 144 | 478 | 69 | 134 | 11 | 73 | 1 | 77 | 33 | .280 | .796 | 137 |
| 1944 | 28 | SLN | 154 | 601 | 87 | 177 | 12 | 102 | 2 | 71 | 50 | .295 | .812 | 135 |
| 1945 | 29 | SLN | 143 | 537 | 85 | 148 | 8 | 78 | 3 | 83 | 55 | .276 | .760 | 119 |
| 1946 | 30 | BSN | 80 | 259 | 43 | 63 | 6 | 35 | 0 | 50 | 38 | .243 | .727 | 113 |
| 1948 | 32 | BSN | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .650 | 85 |
| 1949 | 33 | BSN | 9 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | .143 | .470 | 33 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 1B | 77 | 0 | 626 | 35 | 6 | 54 |
| 1943 | 1B | 141 | 0 | 1302 | 71 | 7 | 142 |
| 1944 | 1B | 152 | 0 | 1370 | 64 | 8 | 142 |
| 1945 | 1B | 142 | 0 | 1259 | 90 | 19 | 113 |
| 1946 | 1B | 77 | 0 | 659 | 61 | 9 | 57 |
| 1949 | 1B | 7 | 0 | 52 | 9 | 1 | 2 |
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.
Ray Sanders won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1944 (NL), TSN All-Star 1944 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1944.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 15 | 25 / 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.