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Rick Ferrell played 18 major-league seasons (1929-1947) as a C (1,806). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 24 | SLA | 64 | 144 | 21 | 33 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 32 | 10 | .229 | .658 | 77 |
| 1930 | 25 | SLA | 101 | 314 | 43 | 84 | 1 | 41 | 1 | 46 | 10 | .268 | .723 | 89 |
| 1931 | 26 | SLA | 117 | 386 | 47 | 118 | 3 | 57 | 2 | 56 | 12 | .306 | .821 | 123 |
| 1932 | 27 | SLA | 126 | 438 | 67 | 138 | 2 | 65 | 5 | 66 | 18 | .315 | .826 | 121 |
| 1933 | 28 | SLA|BOS | 140 | 493 | 58 | 143 | 4 | 77 | 4 | 70 | 23 | .290 | .754 | 107 |
| 1934 | 29 | BOS | 132 | 437 | 50 | 130 | 1 | 48 | 0 | 66 | 20 | .297 | .779 | 109 |
| 1935 | 30 | BOS | 133 | 458 | 54 | 138 | 3 | 61 | 5 | 65 | 15 | .301 | .801 | 113 |
| 1936 | 31 | BOS | 121 | 410 | 59 | 128 | 8 | 55 | 0 | 65 | 17 | .312 | .867 | 121 |
| 1937 | 32 | BOS|WS1 | 104 | 344 | 39 | 84 | 2 | 36 | 1 | 65 | 22 | .244 | .651 | 72 |
| 1938 | 33 | WS1 | 135 | 411 | 55 | 120 | 1 | 58 | 1 | 75 | 17 | .292 | .783 | 104 |
| 1939 | 34 | WS1 | 87 | 274 | 32 | 77 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 41 | 12 | .281 | .712 | 89 |
| 1940 | 35 | WS1 | 103 | 326 | 35 | 89 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 47 | 15 | .273 | .705 | 90 |
| 1941 | 36 | WS1|SLA | 121 | 387 | 38 | 99 | 2 | 36 | 3 | 67 | 26 | .256 | .702 | 94 |
| 1942 | 37 | SLA | 99 | 273 | 20 | 61 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 33 | 13 | .223 | .560 | 64 |
| 1943 | 38 | SLA | 74 | 209 | 12 | 50 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 34 | 14 | .239 | .621 | 88 |
| 1944 | 39 | WS1 | 99 | 339 | 14 | 94 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 46 | 13 | .277 | .679 | 101 |
| 1945 | 40 | WS1 | 91 | 286 | 33 | 76 | 1 | 38 | 2 | 43 | 13 | .266 | .691 | 107 |
| 1947 | 42 | WS1 | 37 | 99 | 10 | 30 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 14 | 7 | .303 | .804 | 131 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | C | 45 | 0 | 140 | 35 | 7 | 3 |
| 1930 | C | 101 | 0 | 336 | 66 | 7 | 5 |
| 1931 | C | 108 | 0 | 412 | 86 | 14 | 11 |
| 1932 | C | 120 | 0 | 486 | 78 | 8 | 9 |
| 1933 | C | 137 | 0 | 591 | 92 | 7 | 10 |
| 1934 | C | 128 | 0 | 531 | 72 | 6 | 7 |
| 1935 | C | 131 | 0 | 520 | 79 | 13 | 12 |
| 1936 | C | 121 | 0 | 556 | 55 | 8 | 5 |
| 1937 | C | 102 | 0 | 434 | 52 | 6 | 6 |
| 1938 | C | 131 | 0 | 512 | 69 | 11 | 15 |
| 1939 | C | 83 | 0 | 327 | 46 | 9 | 9 |
| 1940 | C | 99 | 0 | 427 | 67 | 10 | 5 |
| 1941 | C | 119 | 0 | 425 | 64 | 4 | 12 |
| 1942 | C | 95 | 0 | 356 | 57 | 6 | 7 |
| 1943 | C | 70 | 0 | 327 | 52 | 5 | 7 |
| 1944 | C | 96 | 0 | 403 | 71 | 9 | 8 |
| 1945 | C | 83 | 0 | 331 | 64 | 4 | 3 |
| 1947 | C | 37 | 0 | 134 | 22 | 1 | 5 |
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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1945, 1942, 1933, 1932.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 13 | 9 / 80 | 0 |
| 1933 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 13 | 9 / 80 | 0 |
| 1942 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 22 | 8 / 336 | 0 |
| 1945 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 24 | 6 / 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.