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Butch Metzger played 5 major-league seasons (1974-1978) as a P (191). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
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| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 24 | SDN | 77 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .000 | .200 | -38 |
| 1977 | 25 | SDN|SLN | 75 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 22 | SFN | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12.2 | 5 | 12 | 3.55 | 102 |
| 1975 | 23 | SDN | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 6 | 4 | 7.71 | 47 |
| 1976 | 24 | SDN | 77 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 16 | 123.1 | 89 | 52 | 2.92 | 120 |
| 1977 | 25 | SDN|SLN | 75 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 115.1 | 54 | 50 | 3.59 | 109 |
| 1978 | 26 | NYN | 25 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 37.1 | 21 | 22 | 6.51 | 55 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | P | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1975 | P | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1976 | P | 77 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | P | 75 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| 1978 | P | 25 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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.
Butch Metzger won: Rookie of the Year 1976 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1976.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Rookie of the Year (winner) | NL | 1 | 11 / 24 | 11 |
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.