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Vern Law played 16 major-league seasons (1950-1967) as a P (483), OF (1). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 20 | PIT | 27 | 41 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | .073 | .258 | -29 |
| 1951 | 21 | PIT | 28 | 32 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | .344 | .963 | 165 |
| 1954 | 24 | PIT | 50 | 52 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 8 | .231 | .695 | 86 |
| 1955 | 25 | PIT | 44 | 63 | 8 | 16 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 16 | .254 | .648 | 76 |
| 1956 | 26 | PIT | 39 | 57 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 16 | .175 | .471 | 31 |
| 1957 | 27 | PIT | 34 | 63 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 11 | .190 | .453 | 26 |
| 1958 | 28 | PIT | 36 | 62 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 9 | 10 | .194 | .659 | 79 |
| 1959 | 29 | PIT | 38 | 96 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 20 | .167 | .411 | 13 |
| 1960 | 30 | PIT | 35 | 94 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 19 | .181 | .504 | 40 |
| 1961 | 31 | PIT | 11 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .263 | .634 | 75 |
| 1962 | 32 | PIT | 23 | 45 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .311 | .757 | 108 |
| 1963 | 33 | PIT | 21 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .217 | .435 | 30 |
| 1964 | 34 | PIT | 36 | 61 | 9 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | .311 | .764 | 123 |
| 1965 | 35 | PIT | 34 | 82 | 9 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | .244 | .524 | 53 |
| 1966 | 36 | PIT | 34 | 66 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | .242 | .609 | 74 |
| 1967 | 37 | PIT | 26 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .111 | .328 | -3 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 20 | PIT | 27 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 128 | 57 | 49 | 4.92 | 84 |
| 1951 | 21 | PIT | 28 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 114 | 41 | 51 | 4.50 | 88 |
| 1954 | 24 | PIT | 39 | 18 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 161.2 | 57 | 56 | 5.51 | 74 |
| 1955 | 25 | PIT | 43 | 24 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 200.2 | 82 | 61 | 3.81 | 106 |
| 1956 | 26 | PIT | 39 | 32 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 195.2 | 60 | 49 | 4.32 | 87 |
| 1957 | 27 | PIT | 31 | 25 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 172.2 | 55 | 32 | 2.87 | 135 |
| 1958 | 28 | PIT | 35 | 29 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 202.1 | 56 | 39 | 3.96 | 100 |
| 1959 | 29 | PIT | 34 | 33 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 266 | 110 | 53 | 2.98 | 133 |
| 1960 | 30 | PIT | 35 | 35 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 271.2 | 120 | 40 | 3.08 | 122 |
| 1961 | 31 | PIT | 11 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 59.1 | 20 | 18 | 4.70 | 86 |
| 1962 | 32 | PIT | 23 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 139.1 | 78 | 27 | 3.94 | 100 |
| 1963 | 33 | PIT | 18 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 76.2 | 31 | 13 | 4.93 | 67 |
| 1964 | 34 | PIT | 35 | 29 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 192 | 93 | 32 | 3.61 | 98 |
| 1965 | 35 | PIT | 29 | 28 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 217.1 | 101 | 35 | 2.15 | 164 |
| 1966 | 36 | PIT | 31 | 28 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 177.2 | 88 | 24 | 4.05 | 89 |
| 1967 | 37 | PIT | 25 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 97 | 43 | 18 | 4.18 | 81 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | P | 27 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 1 |
| 1951 | P | 28 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 2 |
| 1954 | P | 39 | 18 | 11 | 23 | 1 | 2 |
| 1954 | OF | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | P | 43 | 24 | 14 | 35 | 4 | 3 |
| 1956 | P | 39 | 32 | 12 | 31 | 0 | 3 |
| 1957 | P | 31 | 25 | 13 | 23 | 2 | 2 |
| 1958 | P | 35 | 29 | 16 | 31 | 0 | 3 |
| 1959 | P | 34 | 33 | 20 | 47 | 1 | 5 |
| 1960 | P | 35 | 35 | 28 | 50 | 2 | 6 |
| 1961 | P | 11 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 1 |
| 1962 | P | 23 | 20 | 7 | 27 | 2 | 3 |
| 1963 | P | 18 | 12 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 1 |
| 1964 | P | 35 | 29 | 16 | 36 | 1 | 3 |
| 1965 | P | 29 | 28 | 29 | 36 | 1 | 2 |
| 1966 | P | 31 | 28 | 11 | 36 | 0 | 4 |
| 1967 | P | 25 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 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.
Vern Law won: Cy Young Award 1960 (ML), TSN All-Star 1960 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1965, 1960, 1959, 1955.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 23 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1959 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 20 | 3 / 336 | 0 |
| 1960 | Cy Young Award (winner) | ML | 1 | 8 / 16 | 8 |
| 1960 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 7 | 80 / 336 | 0 |
| 1965 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 17 | 12 / 280 | 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.