The 1940s in the MLB

The decade's most valuable players

1. 1
   Ted Williams

   LF · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1949 (22.9)

   146.8
2. 2
   Bill Nicholson

   RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1943 (18.4)

   127.2
3. 3
   Stan Musial

   OF · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1948 (21.3)

   123.6
4. 4
   Bobby Doerr

   2B · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1948 (15.6)

   122.1
5. 5
   Bob Elliott

   3B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1947 (15.7)

   122
6. 6
   Hal Newhouser

   P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1945 (17.2)

   119.4
7. 7
   Rudy York

   1B · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1940 (17.4)

   115.4
8. 8
   Vern Stephens

   SS · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1949 (19)

   114.7
9. 9
   Joe DiMaggio

   CF · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1941 (19.6)

   112.7
10. 10
    Johnny Mize

    1B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1947 (18.9)

    110.5
11. 11
    Jeff Heath

    LF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1941 (18.9)

    109.8
12. 12
    Joe Gordon

    2B · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1942 (16.7)

    108.6
13. 13
    Dixie Walker

    RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1944 (15.4)

    108.2
14. 14
    Lou Boudreau

    SS · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1948 (17.1)

    106.2
15. 15
    Charlie Keller

    LF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1942 (18.9)

    104.3
16. 16
    Enos Slaughter

    RF · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1946 (16.6)

    96.1
17. 17
    Dizzy Trout

    P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1944 (14)

    95.8
18. 18
    Phil Cavarretta

    1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1945 (14.3)

    93.3
19. 19
    Tommy Henrich

    RF · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1948 (17.3)

    93
20. 20
    Roy Cullenbine

    RF · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1941 (14)

    92.4
21. 21
    Tommy Holmes

    RF · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1945 (20.7)

    91.8
22. 22
    Frank McCormick

    1B · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1944 (15)

    90.8
23. 23
    Ken Keltner

    3B · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1948 (16.8)

    90.7
24. 24
    George McQuinn

    1B · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1941 (13.5)

    89.9
25. 25
    Bob Feller

    P · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1940 (17)

    89.6

Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.

The decade's greatest single seasons

What this page stands on

VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.