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Chris Chambliss played 17 major-league seasons (1971-1988) as a 1B (1,962). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 17 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 23 | CLE | 111 | 415 | 49 | 114 | 9 | 48 | 2 | 40 | 83 | .275 | .749 | 119 |
| 1972 | 24 | CLE | 121 | 466 | 51 | 136 | 6 | 44 | 3 | 26 | 63 | .292 | .724 | 122 |
| 1973 | 25 | CLE | 155 | 572 | 70 | 156 | 11 | 53 | 4 | 58 | 76 | .273 | .732 | 106 |
| 1974 | 26 | CLE|NYA | 127 | 467 | 46 | 119 | 6 | 50 | 0 | 28 | 48 | .255 | .645 | 86 |
| 1975 | 27 | NYA | 150 | 562 | 66 | 171 | 9 | 72 | 0 | 29 | 50 | .304 | .770 | 117 |
| 1976 | 28 | NYA | 156 | 641 | 79 | 188 | 17 | 96 | 1 | 27 | 80 | .293 | .765 | 123 |
| 1977 | 29 | NYA | 157 | 600 | 90 | 172 | 17 | 90 | 4 | 45 | 73 | .287 | .781 | 112 |
| 1978 | 30 | NYA | 162 | 625 | 81 | 171 | 12 | 90 | 2 | 41 | 60 | .274 | .703 | 98 |
| 1979 | 31 | NYA | 149 | 554 | 61 | 155 | 18 | 63 | 3 | 34 | 53 | .280 | .761 | 104 |
| 1980 | 32 | ATL | 158 | 602 | 83 | 170 | 18 | 72 | 7 | 49 | 73 | .282 | .779 | 123 |
| 1981 | 33 | ATL | 107 | 404 | 44 | 110 | 8 | 51 | 4 | 44 | 41 | .272 | .746 | 118 |
| 1982 | 34 | ATL | 157 | 534 | 57 | 144 | 20 | 86 | 7 | 57 | 57 | .270 | .773 | 122 |
| 1983 | 35 | ATL | 131 | 447 | 59 | 125 | 20 | 78 | 2 | 63 | 68 | .280 | .847 | 142 |
| 1984 | 36 | ATL | 135 | 389 | 47 | 100 | 9 | 44 | 1 | 58 | 54 | .257 | .713 | 108 |
| 1985 | 37 | ATL | 101 | 170 | 16 | 40 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 18 | 22 | .235 | .636 | 84 |
| 1986 | 38 | ATL | 97 | 122 | 13 | 38 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 15 | 24 | .311 | .810 | 132 |
| 1988 | 40 | NYA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 1B | 108 | 108 | 943 | 55 | 8 | 85 |
| 1972 | 1B | 119 | 117 | 1109 | 56 | 8 | 109 |
| 1973 | 1B | 154 | 151 | 1437 | 114 | 14 | 153 |
| 1974 | 1B | 123 | 120 | 1035 | 84 | 11 | 107 |
| 1975 | 1B | 147 | 146 | 1222 | 106 | 12 | 113 |
| 1976 | 1B | 155 | 154 | 1440 | 109 | 9 | 123 |
| 1977 | 1B | 157 | 150 | 1368 | 98 | 16 | 129 |
| 1978 | 1B | 155 | 154 | 1366 | 111 | 4 | 119 |
| 1979 | 1B | 134 | 132 | 1299 | 95 | 7 | 135 |
| 1980 | 1B | 158 | 158 | 1626 | 101 | 12 | 140 |
| 1981 | 1B | 107 | 107 | 1046 | 94 | 4 | 83 |
| 1982 | 1B | 151 | 137 | 1352 | 138 | 10 | 144 |
| 1983 | 1B | 126 | 122 | 1092 | 89 | 5 | 117 |
| 1984 | 1B | 109 | 103 | 996 | 70 | 8 | 84 |
| 1985 | 1B | 39 | 27 | 299 | 25 | 1 | 31 |
| 1986 | 1B | 20 | 12 | 141 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
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.
Chris Chambliss won: Rookie of the Year 1971 (AL), TSN All-Star 1976 (AL), Gold Glove 1978 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1982, 1977, 1976, 1971.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Rookie of the Year (winner) | AL | 1 | 11 / 24 | 11 |
| 1976 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 6 | 71 / 336 | 0 |
| 1977 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 29 | 1 / 392 | 0 |
| 1982 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 23 | 2 / 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.