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Stan Spence played 9 major-league seasons (1940-1949) as a OF (990), 1B (19). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 9 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 25 | BOS | 51 | 68 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | .279 | .746 | 98 |
| 1941 | 26 | BOS | 86 | 203 | 22 | 47 | 2 | 28 | 1 | 18 | 14 | .232 | .643 | 76 |
| 1942 | 27 | WS1 | 149 | 629 | 94 | 203 | 4 | 79 | 5 | 62 | 16 | .323 | .817 | 138 |
| 1943 | 28 | WS1 | 149 | 570 | 72 | 152 | 12 | 88 | 8 | 84 | 39 | .267 | .771 | 132 |
| 1944 | 29 | WS1 | 153 | 592 | 83 | 187 | 18 | 100 | 3 | 69 | 28 | .316 | .877 | 158 |
| 1946 | 31 | WS1 | 152 | 578 | 83 | 169 | 16 | 87 | 1 | 62 | 31 | .292 | .861 | 148 |
| 1947 | 32 | WS1 | 147 | 506 | 62 | 141 | 16 | 73 | 2 | 81 | 41 | .279 | .819 | 134 |
| 1948 | 33 | BOS | 114 | 391 | 71 | 92 | 12 | 61 | 0 | 82 | 33 | .235 | .759 | 108 |
| 1949 | 34 | BOS|SLA | 111 | 334 | 49 | 80 | 13 | 46 | 1 | 58 | 37 | .240 | .771 | 110 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | OF | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941 | OF | 52 | 0 | 97 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| 1941 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942 | OF | 149 | 0 | 395 | 7 | 11 | 0 |
| 1943 | OF | 148 | 0 | 396 | 12 | 7 | 1 |
| 1944 | OF | 150 | 0 | 434 | 29 | 5 | 9 |
| 1944 | 1B | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1946 | OF | 150 | 0 | 412 | 15 | 8 | 3 |
| 1947 | OF | 142 | 0 | 408 | 12 | 7 | 3 |
| 1948 | OF | 92 | 0 | 206 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 1948 | 1B | 14 | 0 | 110 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| 1949 | OF | 92 | 0 | 219 | 11 | 1 | 2 |
| 1949 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.
Stan Spence won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1942 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1944 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1947, 1946, 1944, 1942.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 8 | 65 / 336 | 0 |
| 1944 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 8 | 56 / 336 | 0 |
| 1946 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 24 | 4 / 336 | 0 |
| 1947 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 21 | 9 / 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.