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Sam West played 16 major-league seasons (1927-1942) as a OF (1,573), 1B (29). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 16 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 23 | WS1 | 38 | 67 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 8 | .239 | .648 | 73 |
| 1928 | 24 | WS1 | 125 | 378 | 59 | 114 | 3 | 40 | 5 | 20 | 23 | .302 | .780 | 110 |
| 1929 | 25 | WS1 | 142 | 510 | 60 | 136 | 3 | 75 | 9 | 45 | 41 | .267 | .673 | 79 |
| 1930 | 26 | WS1 | 120 | 411 | 75 | 135 | 6 | 67 | 5 | 37 | 34 | .328 | .860 | 123 |
| 1931 | 27 | WS1 | 132 | 526 | 77 | 175 | 3 | 91 | 6 | 30 | 37 | .333 | .850 | 129 |
| 1932 | 28 | WS1 | 146 | 554 | 88 | 159 | 6 | 83 | 4 | 48 | 57 | .287 | .756 | 102 |
| 1933 | 29 | SLA | 133 | 517 | 93 | 155 | 11 | 48 | 10 | 59 | 49 | .300 | .831 | 126 |
| 1934 | 30 | SLA | 122 | 482 | 90 | 157 | 9 | 55 | 3 | 62 | 55 | .326 | .871 | 132 |
| 1935 | 31 | SLA | 138 | 527 | 93 | 158 | 10 | 70 | 1 | 75 | 46 | .300 | .830 | 121 |
| 1936 | 32 | SLA | 152 | 533 | 78 | 148 | 7 | 70 | 2 | 94 | 70 | .278 | .767 | 97 |
| 1937 | 33 | SLA | 122 | 457 | 68 | 150 | 7 | 58 | 1 | 46 | 28 | .328 | .862 | 124 |
| 1938 | 34 | SLA|WS1 | 136 | 509 | 68 | 155 | 6 | 74 | 2 | 47 | 30 | .305 | .784 | 103 |
| 1939 | 35 | WS1 | 115 | 390 | 52 | 110 | 3 | 52 | 1 | 67 | 29 | .282 | .785 | 108 |
| 1940 | 36 | WS1 | 57 | 99 | 7 | 25 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 16 | 13 | .253 | .720 | 93 |
| 1941 | 37 | WS1 | 26 | 37 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 2 | .270 | .708 | 98 |
| 1942 | 38 | CHA | 49 | 151 | 14 | 35 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 31 | 18 | .232 | .628 | 84 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | OF | 18 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 1928 | OF | 116 | 0 | 210 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| 1929 | OF | 139 | 0 | 376 | 25 | 9 | 8 |
| 1930 | OF | 118 | 0 | 310 | 8 | 9 | 1 |
| 1931 | OF | 127 | 0 | 402 | 13 | 4 | 3 |
| 1932 | OF | 143 | 0 | 450 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| 1933 | OF | 127 | 0 | 329 | 14 | 4 | 3 |
| 1934 | OF | 120 | 0 | 303 | 14 | 9 | 3 |
| 1935 | OF | 135 | 0 | 449 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| 1936 | OF | 148 | 0 | 442 | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| 1937 | OF | 105 | 0 | 298 | 17 | 4 | 6 |
| 1938 | OF | 126 | 0 | 322 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
| 1939 | OF | 89 | 0 | 232 | 7 | 2 | 3 |
| 1939 | 1B | 17 | 0 | 133 | 6 | 4 | 9 |
| 1940 | 1B | 12 | 0 | 95 | 7 | 1 | 13 |
| 1940 | OF | 9 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941 | OF | 8 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942 | OF | 45 | 0 | 112 | 1 | 2 | 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 West won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1933 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1934 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1936, 1934, 1933, 1931.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 10 | 16 / 80 | 0 |
| 1933 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 11 | 11 / 80 | 0 |
| 1934 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 15 | 5 / 80 | 0 |
| 1936 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 18 | 2 / 80 | 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.