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Chris Sabo played 9 major-league seasons (1988-1996) as a 3B (831), OF (22), 1B (3), SS (2). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 26 | CIN | 137 | 538 | 74 | 146 | 11 | 44 | 46 | 29 | 52 | .271 | .728 | 115 |
| 1989 | 27 | CIN | 82 | 304 | 40 | 79 | 6 | 29 | 14 | 25 | 33 | .260 | .711 | 109 |
| 1990 | 28 | CIN | 148 | 567 | 95 | 153 | 25 | 71 | 25 | 61 | 58 | .270 | .819 | 131 |
| 1991 | 29 | CIN | 153 | 582 | 91 | 175 | 26 | 88 | 19 | 44 | 79 | .301 | .859 | 147 |
| 1992 | 30 | CIN | 96 | 344 | 42 | 84 | 12 | 43 | 4 | 30 | 54 | .244 | .723 | 110 |
| 1993 | 31 | CIN | 148 | 552 | 86 | 143 | 21 | 82 | 6 | 43 | 105 | .259 | .755 | 107 |
| 1994 | 32 | BAL | 68 | 258 | 41 | 66 | 11 | 42 | 1 | 20 | 38 | .256 | .786 | 100 |
| 1995 | 33 | CHA | 20 | 71 | 10 | 18 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 12 | .254 | .661 | 71 |
| 1995 | 33 | SLN | 5 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .154 | .445 | 21 |
| 1996 | 34 | CIN | 54 | 125 | 15 | 32 | 3 | 16 | 2 | 18 | 27 | .256 | .754 | 105 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 3B | 135 | 131 | 75 | 318 | 14 | 31 |
| 1988 | SS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3B | 76 | 76 | 36 | 145 | 11 | 12 |
| 1990 | 3B | 146 | 144 | 70 | 273 | 12 | 17 |
| 1991 | 3B | 151 | 149 | 86 | 255 | 12 | 24 |
| 1992 | 3B | 93 | 94 | 60 | 159 | 9 | 13 |
| 1993 | 3B | 148 | 148 | 79 | 242 | 11 | 16 |
| 1994 | 3B | 37 | 34 | 20 | 48 | 3 | 4 |
| 1994 | OF | 22 | 22 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1B | 3 | 3 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 1995 | 3B | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3B | 43 | 37 | 27 | 72 | 4 | 6 |
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 Sabo won: Rookie of the Year 1988 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1991, 1990, 1988.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Rookie of the Year (winner) | NL | 1 | 79 / 120 | 11 |
| 1990 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 13 | 11 / 336 | 0 |
| 1991 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 21 | 1 / 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.