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Cesar Tovar played 12 major-league seasons (1965-1976) as a OF (945), 3B (227), 2B (215), SS (77), 1B (1). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 25 | MIN | 18 | 25 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | .200 | .499 | 48 |
| 1966 | 26 | MIN | 134 | 465 | 57 | 121 | 2 | 41 | 16 | 44 | 50 | .260 | .660 | 97 |
| 1967 | 27 | MIN | 164 | 649 | 98 | 173 | 6 | 47 | 19 | 46 | 51 | .267 | .691 | 111 |
| 1968 | 28 | MIN | 157 | 613 | 89 | 167 | 6 | 47 | 35 | 34 | 41 | .272 | .698 | 119 |
| 1969 | 29 | MIN | 158 | 535 | 99 | 154 | 11 | 52 | 45 | 37 | 37 | .288 | .757 | 118 |
| 1970 | 30 | MIN | 161 | 650 | 120 | 195 | 10 | 54 | 30 | 52 | 47 | .300 | .798 | 127 |
| 1971 | 31 | MIN | 157 | 657 | 94 | 204 | 1 | 45 | 18 | 45 | 39 | .311 | .725 | 113 |
| 1972 | 32 | MIN | 141 | 548 | 86 | 145 | 2 | 31 | 21 | 39 | 39 | .265 | .663 | 105 |
| 1973 | 33 | PHI | 97 | 328 | 49 | 88 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 29 | 35 | .268 | .692 | 99 |
| 1974 | 34 | TEX | 138 | 562 | 78 | 164 | 4 | 58 | 13 | 47 | 33 | .292 | .731 | 111 |
| 1975 | 35 | TEX|OAK | 121 | 453 | 58 | 116 | 3 | 31 | 20 | 30 | 28 | .256 | .619 | 76 |
| 1976 | 36 | OAK|NYA | 42 | 84 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 7 | .167 | .442 | 32 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 28 | MIN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | — |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 2B | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| 1965 | 3B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 1965 | OF | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1966 | 2B | 76 | 73 | 154 | 205 | 8 | 33 |
| 1966 | SS | 31 | 27 | 47 | 67 | 6 | 10 |
| 1966 | OF | 24 | 21 | 53 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1967 | OF | 74 | 70 | 169 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| 1967 | 3B | 70 | 56 | 60 | 101 | 9 | 8 |
| 1967 | 2B | 36 | 31 | 69 | 66 | 4 | 11 |
| 1967 | SS | 9 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 1 |
| 1968 | OF | 78 | 52 | 138 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 1968 | 3B | 75 | 68 | 48 | 147 | 14 | 8 |
| 1968 | SS | 35 | 20 | 31 | 59 | 5 | 9 |
| 1968 | 2B | 18 | 12 | 29 | 24 | 2 | 6 |
| 1968 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968 | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968 | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1969 | OF | 113 | 76 | 225 | 9 | 4 | 3 |
| 1969 | 2B | 41 | 33 | 78 | 99 | 7 | 25 |
| 1969 | 3B | 20 | 14 | 12 | 26 | 2 | 2 |
| 1970 | OF | 151 | 146 | 370 | 12 | 9 | 1 |
| 1970 | 2B | 8 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 |
| 1970 | 3B | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 1971 | OF | 154 | 150 | 348 | 14 | 5 | 3 |
| 1971 | 3B | 7 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| 1971 | 2B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 1972 | OF | 139 | 134 | 287 | 10 | 5 | 2 |
| 1973 | 3B | 46 | 39 | 34 | 56 | 7 | 7 |
| 1973 | OF | 24 | 20 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 1973 | 2B | 22 | 20 | 39 | 56 | 3 | 24 |
| 1974 | OF | 135 | 133 | 331 | 13 | 7 | 3 |
| 1975 | OF | 31 | 30 | 56 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1975 | 2B | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1975 | 3B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1975 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1976 | OF | 20 | 8 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1976 | 2B | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 2 |
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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 7 | 70 / 280 | 1 |
| 1968 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 24 | 3 / 280 | 0 |
| 1969 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 17 | 9 / 336 | 0 |
| 1970 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 18 | 16 / 336 | 0 |
| 1971 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 25 | 4 / 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.