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Dean Palmer played 14 major-league seasons (1989-2003) as a 3B (1,162), OF (30), 1B (21), SS (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 14 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 21 | TEX | 16 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | .105 | .311 | -14 |
| 1991 | 23 | TEX | 81 | 268 | 38 | 50 | 15 | 37 | 0 | 32 | 98 | .187 | .684 | 87 |
| 1992 | 24 | TEX | 152 | 541 | 74 | 124 | 26 | 72 | 10 | 62 | 154 | .229 | .731 | 104 |
| 1993 | 25 | TEX | 148 | 519 | 88 | 127 | 33 | 96 | 11 | 53 | 154 | .245 | .824 | 119 |
| 1994 | 26 | TEX | 93 | 342 | 50 | 84 | 19 | 59 | 3 | 26 | 89 | .246 | .767 | 95 |
| 1995 | 27 | TEX | 36 | 119 | 30 | 40 | 9 | 24 | 1 | 21 | 21 | .336 | 1.062 | 174 |
| 1996 | 28 | TEX | 154 | 582 | 98 | 163 | 38 | 107 | 2 | 59 | 145 | .280 | .876 | 118 |
| 1997 | 29 | TEX|KCA | 143 | 542 | 70 | 139 | 23 | 86 | 2 | 41 | 134 | .256 | .754 | 95 |
| 1998 | 30 | KCA | 152 | 572 | 84 | 159 | 34 | 119 | 8 | 48 | 134 | .278 | .844 | 116 |
| 1999 | 31 | DET | 150 | 560 | 92 | 147 | 38 | 100 | 3 | 57 | 153 | .263 | .857 | 116 |
| 2000 | 32 | DET | 145 | 524 | 73 | 134 | 29 | 102 | 4 | 66 | 146 | .256 | .809 | 103 |
| 2001 | 33 | DET | 57 | 216 | 34 | 48 | 11 | 40 | 4 | 27 | 59 | .222 | .743 | 95 |
| 2002 | 34 | DET | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .000 | .077 | -77 |
| 2003 | 35 | DET | 26 | 86 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 28 | .140 | .397 | 8 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 3B | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | SS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3B | 50 | 45 | 27 | 74 | 6 | 5 |
| 1991 | OF | 29 | 24 | 42 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 1992 | 3B | 150 | 143 | 124 | 254 | 22 | 24 |
| 1993 | 3B | 148 | 144 | 85 | 258 | 29 | 21 |
| 1993 | SS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3B | 91 | 90 | 50 | 179 | 22 | 8 |
| 1995 | 3B | 36 | 35 | 19 | 72 | 5 | 9 |
| 1996 | 3B | 154 | 153 | 105 | 221 | 16 | 17 |
| 1997 | 3B | 141 | 140 | 99 | 244 | 19 | 18 |
| 1998 | 3B | 129 | 127 | 69 | 187 | 22 | 16 |
| 1999 | 3B | 141 | 140 | 89 | 240 | 19 | 24 |
| 2000 | 3B | 115 | 114 | 66 | 180 | 23 | 14 |
| 2000 | 1B | 20 | 15 | 122 | 5 | 2 | 13 |
| 2003 | 1B | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 3B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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.
Dean Palmer won: Silver Slugger 1998 (AL), Silver Slugger 1999 (AL), TSN All-Star 1999 (AL).
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.