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Vern Kennedy played 12 major-league seasons (1934-1945) as a P (344). 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 | 27 | CHA | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .286 | .571 | 53 |
| 1935 | 28 | CHA | 31 | 73 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 18 | .247 | .572 | 52 |
| 1936 | 29 | CHA | 36 | 113 | 12 | 32 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 13 | .283 | .643 | 64 |
| 1937 | 30 | CHA | 32 | 87 | 12 | 20 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 17 | .230 | .572 | 48 |
| 1938 | 31 | DET | 37 | 79 | 10 | 23 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 11 | .291 | .629 | 63 |
| 1939 | 32 | DET|SLA | 38 | 74 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 11 | .162 | .411 | 8 |
| 1940 | 33 | SLA | 35 | 84 | 12 | 25 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 13 | .298 | .750 | 99 |
| 1941 | 34 | SLA|WS1 | 24 | 36 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | .250 | .595 | 63 |
| 1942 | 35 | CLE | 33 | 30 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | .200 | .483 | 41 |
| 1943 | 36 | CLE | 38 | 52 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .231 | .500 | 51 |
| 1944 | 37 | CLE | 15 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .087 | .174 | -49 |
| 1944 | 37 | PHI | 14 | 21 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .286 | .571 | 66 |
| 1945 | 38 | PHI|CIN | 37 | 64 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16 | .219 | .524 | 50 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 27 | CHA | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19.1 | 7 | 9 | 3.72 | 121 |
| 1935 | 28 | CHA | 31 | 25 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 211.2 | 65 | 95 | 3.91 | 114 |
| 1936 | 29 | CHA | 35 | 34 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 274.1 | 99 | 147 | 4.63 | 109 |
| 1937 | 30 | CHA | 32 | 30 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 221 | 114 | 124 | 5.09 | 91 |
| 1938 | 31 | DET | 33 | 26 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 190.1 | 53 | 113 | 5.06 | 95 |
| 1939 | 32 | DET|SLA | 37 | 31 | 9 | 20 | 0 | 212.2 | 64 | 124 | 5.80 | 80 |
| 1940 | 33 | SLA | 34 | 32 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 222.1 | 70 | 122 | 5.59 | 78 |
| 1941 | 34 | SLA|WS1 | 23 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 111.1 | 28 | 66 | 5.17 | 80 |
| 1942 | 35 | CLE | 28 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 108 | 37 | 50 | 4.08 | 90 |
| 1943 | 36 | CLE | 28 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 146.2 | 63 | 59 | 2.45 | 134 |
| 1944 | 37 | CLE | 12 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 59 | 17 | 37 | 5.03 | 68 |
| 1944 | 37 | PHI | 12 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 55.1 | 23 | 20 | 4.23 | 85 |
| 1945 | 38 | PHI|CIN | 36 | 23 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 193.2 | 51 | 83 | 4.28 | 89 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | P | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935 | P | 31 | 0 | 8 | 54 | 2 | 3 |
| 1936 | P | 35 | 0 | 13 | 50 | 2 | 5 |
| 1937 | P | 32 | 0 | 9 | 40 | 3 | 1 |
| 1938 | P | 33 | 0 | 6 | 46 | 3 | 4 |
| 1939 | P | 37 | 0 | 8 | 37 | 1 | 2 |
| 1940 | P | 34 | 0 | 13 | 50 | 0 | 4 |
| 1941 | P | 23 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 2 | 1 |
| 1942 | P | 28 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 3 | 3 |
| 1943 | P | 28 | 0 | 8 | 36 | 1 | 2 |
| 1944 | P | 24 | 0 | 8 | 25 | 3 | 1 |
| 1945 | P | 36 | 0 | 16 | 47 | 2 | 2 |
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.
Vern Kennedy won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1936 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1936 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1936.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 6 | 27 / 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.