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Bucky Dent played 12 major-league seasons (1973-1984) as a SS (1,382), 2B (3), 3B (3). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 12 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 22 | CHA | 40 | 117 | 17 | 29 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 18 | .248 | .573 | 63 |
| 1974 | 23 | CHA | 154 | 496 | 55 | 136 | 5 | 45 | 3 | 28 | 48 | .274 | .662 | 91 |
| 1975 | 24 | CHA | 157 | 602 | 52 | 159 | 3 | 58 | 2 | 36 | 48 | .264 | .642 | 82 |
| 1976 | 25 | CHA | 158 | 562 | 44 | 138 | 2 | 52 | 3 | 43 | 45 | .246 | .603 | 78 |
| 1977 | 26 | NYA | 158 | 477 | 54 | 118 | 8 | 49 | 1 | 39 | 28 | .247 | .653 | 78 |
| 1978 | 27 | NYA | 123 | 379 | 40 | 92 | 5 | 40 | 3 | 23 | 24 | .243 | .603 | 70 |
| 1979 | 28 | NYA | 141 | 431 | 47 | 99 | 2 | 32 | 0 | 37 | 30 | .230 | .573 | 56 |
| 1980 | 29 | NYA | 141 | 489 | 57 | 128 | 5 | 52 | 0 | 48 | 37 | .262 | .681 | 87 |
| 1981 | 30 | NYA | 73 | 227 | 20 | 54 | 7 | 27 | 0 | 19 | 17 | .238 | .679 | 95 |
| 1982 | 31 | NYA|TEX | 105 | 306 | 27 | 59 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 21 | 21 | .193 | .484 | 34 |
| 1983 | 32 | TEX | 131 | 417 | 36 | 99 | 2 | 34 | 3 | 23 | 31 | .237 | .575 | 59 |
| 1984 | 33 | KCA | 11 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .333 | .733 | 106 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | SS | 36 | 35 | 51 | 132 | 7 | 22 |
| 1973 | 2B | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1973 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1974 | SS | 154 | 153 | 251 | 499 | 22 | 108 |
| 1975 | SS | 157 | 157 | 279 | 543 | 16 | 105 |
| 1976 | SS | 158 | 154 | 279 | 468 | 18 | 96 |
| 1977 | SS | 158 | 153 | 250 | 434 | 18 | 90 |
| 1978 | SS | 123 | 120 | 178 | 341 | 10 | 57 |
| 1979 | SS | 141 | 136 | 219 | 512 | 17 | 107 |
| 1980 | SS | 141 | 141 | 224 | 489 | 13 | 77 |
| 1981 | SS | 73 | 73 | 104 | 217 | 10 | 49 |
| 1982 | SS | 103 | 94 | 129 | 323 | 14 | 57 |
| 1983 | SS | 129 | 125 | 150 | 369 | 11 | 71 |
| 1984 | SS | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3B | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 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.
Bucky Dent won: Babe Ruth Award 1978 (AL), World Series MVP 1978 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1974.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Rookie of the Year | AL | 2 | 3 / 24 | 3 |
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.