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Rudy York played 13 major-league seasons (1934-1948) as a 1B (1,263), C (239), 3B (41), OF (14). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 21 | DET | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .167 | .452 | 23 |
| 1937 | 24 | DET | 104 | 375 | 72 | 115 | 35 | 103 | 3 | 41 | 52 | .307 | 1.026 | 163 |
| 1938 | 25 | DET | 135 | 463 | 85 | 138 | 33 | 127 | 1 | 92 | 74 | .298 | .995 | 156 |
| 1939 | 26 | DET | 102 | 329 | 66 | 101 | 20 | 68 | 5 | 41 | 50 | .307 | .931 | 144 |
| 1940 | 27 | DET | 155 | 588 | 105 | 186 | 33 | 134 | 3 | 89 | 88 | .316 | .993 | 163 |
| 1941 | 28 | DET | 155 | 590 | 91 | 153 | 27 | 111 | 3 | 92 | 88 | .259 | .816 | 123 |
| 1942 | 29 | DET | 153 | 577 | 81 | 150 | 21 | 90 | 3 | 73 | 71 | .260 | .771 | 124 |
| 1943 | 30 | DET | 155 | 571 | 90 | 155 | 34 | 118 | 5 | 84 | 88 | .271 | .893 | 168 |
| 1944 | 31 | DET | 151 | 583 | 77 | 161 | 18 | 98 | 5 | 68 | 73 | .276 | .792 | 133 |
| 1945 | 32 | DET | 155 | 595 | 71 | 157 | 18 | 87 | 6 | 60 | 85 | .264 | .745 | 122 |
| 1946 | 33 | BOS | 154 | 579 | 78 | 160 | 17 | 119 | 3 | 86 | 93 | .276 | .808 | 133 |
| 1947 | 34 | BOS|CHA | 150 | 584 | 56 | 136 | 21 | 91 | 1 | 58 | 87 | .233 | .699 | 100 |
| 1948 | 35 | PHA | 31 | 51 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 15 | .157 | .415 | 15 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | C | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937 | C | 54 | 0 | 190 | 27 | 9 | 6 |
| 1937 | 3B | 41 | 0 | 45 | 66 | 9 | 5 |
| 1937 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938 | C | 116 | 0 | 406 | 70 | 5 | 10 |
| 1938 | OF | 14 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1938 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1939 | C | 67 | 0 | 283 | 38 | 5 | 5 |
| 1939 | 1B | 19 | 0 | 151 | 1 | 0 | 17 |
| 1940 | 1B | 155 | 0 | 1390 | 107 | 15 | 101 |
| 1941 | 1B | 155 | 0 | 1393 | 110 | 21 | 111 |
| 1942 | 1B | 152 | 0 | 1413 | 146 | 19 | 117 |
| 1943 | 1B | 155 | 0 | 1349 | 149 | 15 | 105 |
| 1944 | 1B | 151 | 0 | 1453 | 107 | 17 | 163 |
| 1945 | 1B | 155 | 0 | 1464 | 113 | 19 | 142 |
| 1946 | 1B | 154 | 0 | 1327 | 116 | 8 | 154 |
| 1947 | 1B | 150 | 0 | 1327 | 107 | 7 | 151 |
| 1948 | 1B | 14 | 0 | 77 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
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.
Rudy York won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (ML), TSN All-Star 1943 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1944 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1944 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (9 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1946, 1945, 1944, 1943, 1942, 1941, 1940, 1939, 1937.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 24 | 1 / 80 | 0 |
| 1939 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 34 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1940 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 8 | 61 / 336 | 0 |
| 1941 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 24 | 3 / 336 | 0 |
| 1942 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 28 | 3 / 336 | 0 |
| 1943 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 3 | 152 / 336 | 1 |
| 1944 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 25 | 5 / 336 | 0 |
| 1945 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 34 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1946 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 11 | 28 / 336 | 0 |
Rudy York ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #38 | catchers | 1938 | 156 OPS+ |
| #123 | first basemen | 1943 | 168 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.