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Sam Jones played 12 major-league seasons (1951-1964) as a P (322). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 12 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 26 | CLE | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1952 | 27 | CLE | 14 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .100 | .200 | -42 |
| 1955 | 30 | CHN | 36 | 77 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 27 | .182 | .407 | 12 |
| 1956 | 31 | CHN | 33 | 57 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 19 | .175 | .405 | 15 |
| 1957 | 32 | SLN | 28 | 63 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 25 | .159 | .356 | 0 |
| 1958 | 33 | SLN | 35 | 90 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 26 | .100 | .218 | -39 |
| 1959 | 34 | SFN | 50 | 85 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 30 | .129 | .298 | -17 |
| 1960 | 35 | SFN | 39 | 80 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 20 | .200 | .432 | 22 |
| 1961 | 36 | SFN | 37 | 36 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .139 | .357 | -3 |
| 1962 | 37 | DET | 30 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | .095 | .333 | -11 |
| 1963 | 38 | SLN | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | 63 |
| 1964 | 39 | BAL | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 26 | CLE | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8.2 | 4 | 5 | 2.08 | 198 |
| 1952 | 27 | CLE | 14 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 36 | 28 | 37 | 7.25 | 51 |
| 1955 | 30 | CHN | 36 | 34 | 14 | 20 | 0 | 241.2 | 198 | 185 | 4.10 | 99 |
| 1956 | 31 | CHN | 33 | 28 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 188.2 | 176 | 115 | 3.91 | 96 |
| 1957 | 32 | SLN | 28 | 27 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 182.2 | 154 | 71 | 3.60 | 108 |
| 1958 | 33 | SLN | 35 | 35 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 250 | 225 | 107 | 2.88 | 137 |
| 1959 | 34 | SFN | 50 | 35 | 21 | 15 | 4 | 270.2 | 209 | 109 | 2.83 | 140 |
| 1960 | 35 | SFN | 39 | 35 | 18 | 14 | 0 | 234 | 190 | 91 | 3.19 | 118 |
| 1961 | 36 | SFN | 37 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 128.1 | 105 | 57 | 4.49 | 90 |
| 1962 | 37 | DET | 30 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 81.1 | 73 | 35 | 3.65 | 109 |
| 1963 | 38 | SLN | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 9.00 | 37 |
| 1964 | 39 | BAL | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.1 | 6 | 5 | 2.61 | 139 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952 | P | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | P | 36 | 34 | 14 | 36 | 5 | 0 |
| 1956 | P | 33 | 28 | 7 | 21 | 4 | 3 |
| 1957 | P | 28 | 27 | 13 | 27 | 1 | 1 |
| 1958 | P | 35 | 35 | 14 | 31 | 1 | 3 |
| 1959 | P | 50 | 35 | 10 | 34 | 3 | 2 |
| 1960 | P | 39 | 35 | 6 | 34 | 5 | 1 |
| 1961 | P | 37 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| 1962 | P | 30 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 1963 | P | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964 | P | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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.
Sam Jones won: TSN All-Star 1959 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1959.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Cy Young Award | ML | 2 | 2 / 16 | 2 |
| 1959 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 5 | 130 / 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.