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Denny Lyons played 13 major-league seasons (1885-1897) as a 3B (1,085), 1B (36). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 13 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 19 | PRO | 4 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .125 | .313 | 2 |
| 1886 | 20 | PH4 | 32 | 123 | 22 | 26 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 8 | — | .211 | .534 | 70 |
| 1887 | 21 | PH4 | 137 | 570 | 128 | 209 | 6 | 102 | 73 | 47 | 16 | .367 | .943 | 167 |
| 1888 | 22 | PH4 | 111 | 456 | 93 | 135 | 6 | 83 | 39 | 41 | 43 | .296 | .769 | 151 |
| 1889 | 23 | PH4 | 131 | 510 | 135 | 168 | 9 | 82 | 10 | 79 | 44 | .329 | .895 | 160 |
| 1890 | 24 | PH4 | 88 | 339 | 79 | 120 | 7 | 73 | 21 | 57 | — | .354 | .992 | 200 |
| 1891 | 25 | SL4 | 120 | 451 | 124 | 142 | 11 | 84 | 9 | 88 | 58 | .315 | .900 | 164 |
| 1892 | 26 | NY1 | 108 | 389 | 71 | 100 | 8 | 51 | 11 | 59 | 37 | .257 | .755 | 134 |
| 1893 | 27 | PIT | 131 | 490 | 103 | 150 | 3 | 105 | 19 | 97 | 29 | .306 | .858 | 133 |
| 1894 | 28 | PIT | 72 | 257 | 52 | 82 | 4 | 51 | 14 | 43 | 13 | .319 | .876 | 116 |
| 1895 | 29 | SLN | 34 | 132 | 24 | 39 | 2 | 25 | 3 | 15 | 7 | .295 | .766 | 102 |
| 1896 | 30 | PIT | 118 | 436 | 77 | 134 | 4 | 71 | 13 | 67 | 25 | .307 | .825 | 123 |
| 1897 | 31 | PIT | 37 | 131 | 22 | 27 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 22 | 5 | .206 | .705 | 91 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 3B | 4 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| 1886 | 3B | 32 | 0 | 35 | 53 | 21 | 1 |
| 1887 | 3B | 137 | 0 | 255 | 215 | 73 | 29 |
| 1888 | 3B | 111 | 0 | 159 | 193 | 49 | 11 |
| 1889 | 3B | 130 | 0 | 202 | 291 | 80 | 29 |
| 1889 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1890 | 3B | 88 | 0 | 147 | 203 | 35 | 15 |
| 1891 | 3B | 120 | 0 | 151 | 246 | 59 | 16 |
| 1892 | 3B | 108 | 0 | 152 | 206 | 53 | 13 |
| 1893 | 3B | 131 | 0 | 214 | 303 | 46 | 23 |
| 1894 | 3B | 72 | 0 | 121 | 157 | 32 | 11 |
| 1895 | 3B | 34 | 0 | 62 | 50 | 14 | 2 |
| 1896 | 3B | 116 | 0 | 165 | 201 | 44 | 15 |
| 1897 | 1B | 35 | 0 | 339 | 15 | 4 | 14 |
| 1897 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 6 | 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.
Denny Lyons ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #55 | third basemen | 1887 | 167 OPS+ |
| #74 | third basemen | 1891 | 164 OPS+ |
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.