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Ray Schalk played 18 major-league seasons (1912-1929) as a C (1,727). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 18 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 20 | CHA | 23 | 63 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | .286 | .675 | 98 |
| 1913 | 21 | CHA | 129 | 401 | 38 | 98 | 1 | 38 | 14 | 27 | 36 | .244 | .611 | 85 |
| 1914 | 22 | CHA | 136 | 392 | 30 | 106 | 0 | 36 | 24 | 38 | 24 | .270 | .661 | 106 |
| 1915 | 23 | CHA | 135 | 413 | 46 | 110 | 1 | 54 | 15 | 62 | 21 | .266 | .693 | 113 |
| 1916 | 24 | CHA | 129 | 410 | 36 | 95 | 0 | 41 | 30 | 41 | 31 | .232 | .616 | 91 |
| 1917 | 25 | CHA | 140 | 424 | 48 | 96 | 2 | 51 | 19 | 59 | 27 | .226 | .623 | 95 |
| 1918 | 26 | CHA | 108 | 333 | 35 | 73 | 0 | 22 | 12 | 36 | 22 | .219 | .556 | 72 |
| 1919 | 27 | CHA | 131 | 394 | 57 | 111 | 0 | 34 | 11 | 51 | 25 | .282 | .687 | 99 |
| 1920 | 28 | CHA | 151 | 485 | 64 | 131 | 1 | 61 | 10 | 68 | 19 | .270 | .711 | 94 |
| 1921 | 29 | CHA | 128 | 416 | 32 | 105 | 0 | 47 | 3 | 40 | 36 | .252 | .658 | 73 |
| 1922 | 30 | CHA | 142 | 442 | 57 | 124 | 4 | 60 | 12 | 67 | 36 | .281 | .750 | 102 |
| 1923 | 31 | CHA | 123 | 382 | 42 | 87 | 1 | 44 | 7 | 39 | 28 | .228 | .583 | 59 |
| 1924 | 32 | CHA | 57 | 153 | 15 | 30 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 21 | 10 | .196 | .569 | 52 |
| 1925 | 33 | CHA | 125 | 343 | 44 | 94 | 0 | 52 | 11 | 57 | 27 | .274 | .714 | 88 |
| 1926 | 34 | CHA | 82 | 226 | 26 | 60 | 0 | 32 | 5 | 27 | 11 | .265 | .663 | 80 |
| 1927 | 35 | CHA | 16 | 26 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .231 | .593 | 58 |
| 1928 | 36 | CHA | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 443 |
| 1929 | 37 | NY1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | C | 23 | 0 | 115 | 40 | 14 | 4 |
| 1913 | C | 125 | 0 | 599 | 154 | 15 | 18 |
| 1914 | C | 125 | 0 | 613 | 183 | 21 | 20 |
| 1915 | C | 134 | 0 | 655 | 159 | 13 | 8 |
| 1916 | C | 124 | 0 | 653 | 166 | 10 | 25 |
| 1917 | C | 139 | 0 | 624 | 148 | 15 | 18 |
| 1918 | C | 106 | 0 | 422 | 114 | 12 | 15 |
| 1919 | C | 129 | 0 | 551 | 130 | 13 | 14 |
| 1920 | C | 151 | 0 | 581 | 138 | 10 | 19 |
| 1921 | C | 126 | 0 | 453 | 129 | 9 | 19 |
| 1922 | C | 142 | 0 | 591 | 150 | 8 | 16 |
| 1923 | C | 121 | 0 | 481 | 93 | 10 | 20 |
| 1924 | C | 56 | 0 | 176 | 55 | 10 | 8 |
| 1925 | C | 125 | 0 | 368 | 99 | 8 | 15 |
| 1926 | C | 80 | 0 | 251 | 45 | 7 | 6 |
| 1927 | C | 15 | 0 | 24 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| 1928 | C | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929 | C | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 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.
Ray Schalk won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1914 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1915 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1916 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1916 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1917 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1925, 1922, 1914, 1913.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 21 | 3 / 64 | 0 |
| 1914 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 6 | 13 / 64 | 0 |
| 1922 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 3 | 26 / 64 | 0 |
| 1925 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 16 | 7 / 64 | 0 |
Ray Schalk ranks on 3 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
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.