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Roger Bresnahan played 17 major-league seasons (1897-1915) as a C (974), OF (281), 3B (42), 1B (33), 2B (28). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | 18 | WAS | 6 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .375 | .787 | 113 |
| 1900 | 21 | CHN | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1901 | 22 | BLA | 86 | 295 | 40 | 79 | 1 | 32 | 10 | 23 | 33 | .268 | .692 | 97 |
| 1902 | 23 | BLA | 65 | 235 | 30 | 64 | 4 | 34 | 12 | 21 | 16 | .272 | .746 | 113 |
| 1902 | 23 | NY1 | 51 | 178 | 16 | 51 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 16 | 26 | .287 | .740 | 134 |
| 1903 | 24 | NY1 | 113 | 406 | 87 | 142 | 4 | 55 | 34 | 61 | 45 | .350 | .936 | 175 |
| 1904 | 25 | NY1 | 109 | 402 | 81 | 114 | 5 | 33 | 13 | 58 | 40 | .284 | .791 | 152 |
| 1905 | 26 | NY1 | 104 | 331 | 58 | 100 | 0 | 46 | 11 | 50 | 21 | .302 | .785 | 143 |
| 1906 | 27 | NY1 | 124 | 405 | 69 | 114 | 0 | 43 | 25 | 81 | 43 | .281 | .775 | 150 |
| 1907 | 28 | NY1 | 110 | 328 | 57 | 83 | 4 | 38 | 15 | 61 | 26 | .253 | .740 | 140 |
| 1908 | 29 | NY1 | 140 | 449 | 70 | 127 | 1 | 54 | 14 | 83 | 33 | .283 | .760 | 151 |
| 1909 | 30 | SLN | 72 | 234 | 27 | 57 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 46 | 19 | .244 | .639 | 105 |
| 1910 | 31 | SLN | 88 | 234 | 35 | 65 | 0 | 27 | 13 | 55 | 17 | .278 | .787 | 136 |
| 1911 | 32 | SLN | 81 | 227 | 22 | 63 | 3 | 41 | 4 | 45 | 19 | .278 | .866 | 150 |
| 1912 | 33 | SLN | 48 | 108 | 8 | 36 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 14 | 9 | .333 | .882 | 149 |
| 1913 | 34 | CHN | 69 | 162 | 20 | 37 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 21 | 11 | .228 | .627 | 85 |
| 1914 | 35 | CHN | 101 | 248 | 42 | 69 | 0 | 24 | 14 | 49 | 20 | .278 | .752 | 132 |
| 1915 | 36 | CHN | 77 | 221 | 19 | 45 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 29 | 23 | .204 | .558 | 75 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | 18 | WAS | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 12 | 10 | 3.95 | 109 |
| 1901 | 22 | BLA | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 6.00 | 61 |
| 1910 | 31 | SLN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | — |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | P | 6 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 1897 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1900 | C | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901 | C | 69 | 0 | 199 | 63 | 23 | 3 |
| 1901 | OF | 8 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1901 | 3B | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901 | 2B | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1901 | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1902 | OF | 42 | 0 | 55 | 9 | 7 | 1 |
| 1902 | C | 38 | 0 | 152 | 44 | 10 | 4 |
| 1902 | 3B | 31 | 0 | 33 | 55 | 12 | 4 |
| 1902 | 1B | 4 | 0 | 41 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 1902 | SS | 4 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| 1903 | OF | 84 | 0 | 150 | 14 | 6 | 6 |
| 1903 | 1B | 13 | 0 | 101 | 9 | 7 | 4 |
| 1903 | C | 11 | 0 | 46 | 11 | 5 | 1 |
| 1903 | 3B | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 |
| 1904 | OF | 93 | 91 | 151 | 14 | 8 | 9 |
| 1904 | 1B | 10 | 8 | 83 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| 1904 | SS | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 4 |
| 1904 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904 | 3B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1905 | C | 87 | 86 | 492 | 114 | 19 | 15 |
| 1905 | OF | 8 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906 | C | 82 | 81 | 407 | 125 | 14 | 6 |
| 1906 | OF | 40 | 40 | 71 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| 1907 | C | 95 | 93 | 483 | 94 | 8 | 11 |
| 1907 | 1B | 6 | 6 | 58 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 1907 | OF | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907 | 3B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 1908 | C | 139 | 139 | 657 | 140 | 12 | 12 |
| 1909 | C | 59 | 53 | 211 | 78 | 12 | 3 |
| 1909 | 2B | 9 | 9 | 11 | 25 | 2 | 6 |
| 1909 | 3B | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1910 | C | 77 | 75 | 295 | 100 | 16 | 11 |
| 1910 | OF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 1911 | C | 77 | 0 | 325 | 102 | 14 | 9 |
| 1911 | 2B | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1912 | C | 28 | 0 | 138 | 49 | 5 | 4 |
| 1913 | C | 58 | 0 | 194 | 67 | 10 | 2 |
| 1914 | C | 85 | 0 | 365 | 113 | 11 | 6 |
| 1914 | 2B | 14 | 0 | 11 | 18 | 1 | 0 |
| 1914 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915 | C | 68 | 0 | 345 | 95 | 8 | 9 |
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.
Roger Bresnahan won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1908 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1908 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1909 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1911 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1911 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1914.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 11 | 6 / 64 | 0 |
Roger Bresnahan ranks on 3 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #58 | catchers | 1908 | 151 OPS+ |
| #66 | catchers | 1906 | 150 OPS+ |
| #68 | center fielders | 1903 | 175 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.