Buddy Myer

1925–1941 · 17 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1904

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1925	Washington Senators	AL	4	8	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	-0.2
1926	Washington Senators	AL	132	499	434	66	132	18	6	1	62	45	19	10	.304	.370	.380	.750	0.7
1927	Boston Red Sox	AL	148	601	520	66	146	23	11	2	54	56	18	12	.281	.355	.379	.734	3.4
1928	Boston Red Sox	AL	147	619	536	78	168	26	6	1	44	53	28	30	.313	.379	.390	.769	3.5
1929	Washington Senators	AL	141	639	563	80	169	29	10	3	82	63	33	18	.300	.373	.403	.776	2.5
1930	Washington Senators	AL	138	617	541	97	164	18	8	2	61	58	31	14	.303	.373	.377	.750	1.2
1931	Washington Senators	AL	139	662	591	114	173	33	11	4	56	58	42	11	.293	.360	.406	.766	2.9
1932	Washington Senators	AL	143	661	577	120	161	38	16	5	52	69	33	12	.279	.360	.426	.786	3.9
1933	Washington Senators	AL	131	601	530	95	160	29	15	4	61	60	29	6	.302	.374	.436	.810	5.5
1934	Washington Senators	AL	139	636	524	103	160	33	8	3	57	102	32	6	.305	.419	.416	.835	5.7
1935	Washington Senators	AL	151	720	616	115	215	36	11	5	100	96	40	7	.349	.440	.468	.907	8.8
1936	Washington Senators	AL	51	201	156	31	42	5	2	0	15	42	11	7	.269	.427	.327	.754	1.6
1937	Washington Senators	AL	125	519	430	54	126	16	10	1	65	78	41	2	.293	.407	.384	.791	3.3
1938	Washington Senators	AL	127	534	437	79	147	22	8	6	71	93	32	9	.336	.454	.465	.918	6.0
1939	Washington Senators	AL	83	300	258	33	78	10	3	1	32	40	18	4	.302	.396	.376	.772	2.1
1940	Washington Senators	AL	71	245	210	28	61	14	4	0	29	34	10	6	.290	.389	.395	.785	1.9
1941	Washington Senators	AL	53	125	107	14	27	3	1	0	9	18	10	2	.252	.360	.299	.659	0.1
Career	17 seasons		1923	8187	7038	1174	2131	353	130	38	850	965	428	156	.303	.389	.406	.795	52.6

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.