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Catfish Hunter played 15 major-league seasons (1965-1979) as a P (500), 1B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 10 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 19 | KC1 | 32 | 40 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | .150 | .325 | -5 |
| 1966 | 20 | KC1 | 30 | 59 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 21 | .153 | .397 | 18 |
| 1967 | 21 | KC1 | 37 | 92 | 9 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 32 | .196 | .500 | 51 |
| 1968 | 22 | OAK | 39 | 82 | 9 | 19 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 19 | .232 | .537 | 67 |
| 1969 | 23 | OAK | 42 | 85 | 5 | 19 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 24 | .224 | .510 | 47 |
| 1970 | 24 | OAK | 43 | 90 | 10 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 23 | .200 | .515 | 46 |
| 1971 | 25 | OAK | 38 | 103 | 14 | 36 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 11 | .350 | .770 | 126 |
| 1972 | 26 | OAK | 39 | 105 | 5 | 23 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | .219 | .434 | 34 |
| 1973 | 27 | OAK | 37 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 467 |
| 1976 | 30 | NYA | 36 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 19 | KC1 | 32 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 133 | 82 | 46 | 4.26 | 81 |
| 1966 | 20 | KC1 | 30 | 25 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 176.2 | 103 | 64 | 4.02 | 85 |
| 1967 | 21 | KC1 | 35 | 35 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 259.2 | 196 | 84 | 2.81 | 115 |
| 1968 | 22 | OAK | 36 | 34 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 234 | 172 | 69 | 3.35 | 89 |
| 1969 | 23 | OAK | 38 | 35 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 247 | 150 | 85 | 3.35 | 108 |
| 1970 | 24 | OAK | 40 | 40 | 18 | 14 | 0 | 262.1 | 178 | 74 | 3.81 | 98 |
| 1971 | 25 | OAK | 37 | 37 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 273.2 | 181 | 80 | 2.96 | 117 |
| 1972 | 26 | OAK | 38 | 37 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 295.1 | 191 | 70 | 2.04 | 150 |
| 1973 | 27 | OAK | 36 | 36 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 256.1 | 124 | 69 | 3.34 | 114 |
| 1974 | 28 | OAK | 41 | 41 | 25 | 12 | 0 | 318.1 | 143 | 46 | 2.49 | 145 |
| 1975 | 29 | NYA | 39 | 39 | 23 | 14 | 0 | 328 | 177 | 83 | 2.58 | 146 |
| 1976 | 30 | NYA | 36 | 36 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 298.2 | 173 | 68 | 3.53 | 100 |
| 1977 | 31 | NYA | 22 | 22 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 143.1 | 52 | 47 | 4.71 | 86 |
| 1978 | 32 | NYA | 21 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 118 | 56 | 35 | 3.58 | 105 |
| 1979 | 33 | NYA | 19 | 19 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 105 | 34 | 34 | 5.31 | 79 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | P | 32 | 20 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 1 |
| 1966 | P | 30 | 25 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 1 |
| 1967 | P | 35 | 35 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 1 |
| 1967 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968 | P | 36 | 34 | 16 | 20 | 4 | 0 |
| 1969 | P | 38 | 35 | 17 | 32 | 0 | 4 |
| 1970 | P | 40 | 40 | 17 | 24 | 1 | 3 |
| 1971 | P | 37 | 37 | 15 | 26 | 0 | 1 |
| 1972 | P | 38 | 37 | 23 | 30 | 2 | 1 |
| 1973 | P | 36 | 36 | 11 | 24 | 1 | 0 |
| 1974 | P | 41 | 41 | 25 | 27 | 3 | 1 |
| 1975 | P | 39 | 39 | 23 | 26 | 3 | 0 |
| 1976 | P | 36 | 36 | 24 | 30 | 2 | 2 |
| 1977 | P | 22 | 22 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| 1978 | P | 21 | 20 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | P | 19 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 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.
Catfish Hunter won: Cy Young Award 1974 (AL), TSN All-Star 1974 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (9 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 28 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1972 | Cy Young Award | AL | 4 | 26 / 120 | 2 |
| 1972 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 11 | 57 / 336 | 0 |
| 1973 | Cy Young Award | AL | 3 | 52 / 120 | 1 |
| 1973 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 11 | 47 / 336 | 0 |
| 1974 | Cy Young Award (winner) | AL | 1 | 90 / 120 | 12 |
| 1974 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 6 | 107 / 336 | 1 |
| 1975 | Cy Young Award | AL | 2 | 74 / 120 | 7 |
| 1975 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 12 | 31 / 336 | 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.