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Rip Sewell played 13 major-league seasons (1932-1949) as a P (390). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 25 | DET | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | 1.000 | 168 |
| 1938 | 31 | PIT | 17 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .083 | .167 | -53 |
| 1939 | 32 | PIT | 52 | 55 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | .200 | .514 | 43 |
| 1940 | 33 | PIT | 47 | 73 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 19 | .192 | .511 | 45 |
| 1941 | 34 | PIT | 42 | 92 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 15 | .174 | .428 | 24 |
| 1942 | 35 | PIT | 41 | 87 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 19 | .149 | .362 | 9 |
| 1943 | 36 | PIT | 41 | 105 | 9 | 30 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 21 | .286 | .642 | 91 |
| 1944 | 37 | PIT | 44 | 112 | 10 | 25 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 19 | .223 | .540 | 56 |
| 1945 | 38 | PIT | 35 | 64 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 11 | .313 | .740 | 113 |
| 1946 | 39 | PIT | 26 | 50 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | .180 | .461 | 35 |
| 1947 | 40 | PIT | 24 | 40 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .125 | .346 | -5 |
| 1948 | 41 | PIT | 21 | 42 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 15 | .143 | .488 | 37 |
| 1949 | 42 | PIT | 28 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | .063 | .313 | -9 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 25 | DET | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.2 | 2 | 8 | 12.66 | 35 |
| 1938 | 31 | PIT | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 38.1 | 17 | 21 | 4.23 | 90 |
| 1939 | 32 | PIT | 52 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 176.1 | 69 | 73 | 4.08 | 96 |
| 1940 | 33 | PIT | 33 | 23 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 189.2 | 60 | 67 | 2.80 | 137 |
| 1941 | 34 | PIT | 39 | 32 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 249 | 76 | 84 | 3.72 | 98 |
| 1942 | 35 | PIT | 40 | 33 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 248 | 69 | 72 | 3.41 | 97 |
| 1943 | 36 | PIT | 35 | 31 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 265.1 | 65 | 75 | 2.54 | 133 |
| 1944 | 37 | PIT | 38 | 33 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 286 | 87 | 99 | 3.18 | 114 |
| 1945 | 38 | PIT | 33 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 188 | 60 | 91 | 4.07 | 93 |
| 1946 | 39 | PIT | 25 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 149.1 | 33 | 53 | 3.68 | 93 |
| 1947 | 40 | PIT | 24 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 121 | 36 | 36 | 3.57 | 114 |
| 1948 | 41 | PIT | 21 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 121.2 | 36 | 37 | 3.48 | 114 |
| 1949 | 42 | PIT | 28 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 76 | 26 | 32 | 3.91 | 103 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | P | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938 | P | 17 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3 |
| 1939 | P | 52 | 0 | 9 | 47 | 1 | 3 |
| 1940 | P | 33 | 0 | 17 | 46 | 5 | 0 |
| 1941 | P | 39 | 0 | 21 | 56 | 2 | 6 |
| 1942 | P | 40 | 0 | 19 | 51 | 2 | 3 |
| 1943 | P | 35 | 0 | 13 | 60 | 4 | 4 |
| 1944 | P | 38 | 0 | 21 | 49 | 4 | 1 |
| 1945 | P | 33 | 0 | 10 | 35 | 1 | 2 |
| 1946 | P | 25 | 0 | 8 | 26 | 2 | 1 |
| 1947 | P | 24 | 0 | 10 | 26 | 1 | 3 |
| 1948 | P | 21 | 0 | 10 | 21 | 3 | 1 |
| 1949 | P | 28 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 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.
Rip Sewell won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (NL), TSN All-Star 1943 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1944, 1943, 1940.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 25 | 7 / 336 | 0 |
| 1943 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 6 | 127 / 336 | 0 |
| 1944 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 11 | 49 / 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.