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Denny McLain played 10 major-league seasons (1963-1972) as a P (280). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 11 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 19 | DET | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .200 | .967 | 164 |
| 1964 | 20 | DET | 20 | 37 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 | .135 | .293 | -15 |
| 1965 | 21 | DET | 33 | 74 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 32 | .054 | .178 | -46 |
| 1966 | 22 | DET | 38 | 93 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 39 | .183 | .429 | 28 |
| 1967 | 23 | DET | 38 | 85 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 37 | .118 | .256 | -21 |
| 1968 | 24 | DET | 44 | 111 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 37 | .162 | .359 | 12 |
| 1969 | 25 | DET | 42 | 106 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 41 | .160 | .348 | 1 |
| 1970 | 26 | DET | 14 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | .065 | .161 | -54 |
| 1971 | 27 | WS2 | 33 | 58 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 22 | .103 | .316 | -7 |
| 1972 | 28 | OAK | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1972 | 28 | ATL | 15 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .167 | .452 | 36 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 19 | DET | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 22 | 16 | 4.29 | 85 |
| 1964 | 20 | DET | 19 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 100 | 70 | 37 | 4.05 | 90 |
| 1965 | 21 | DET | 33 | 29 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 220.1 | 192 | 62 | 2.61 | 132 |
| 1966 | 22 | DET | 38 | 38 | 20 | 14 | 0 | 264.1 | 192 | 104 | 3.92 | 88 |
| 1967 | 23 | DET | 37 | 37 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 235 | 161 | 73 | 3.79 | 85 |
| 1968 | 24 | DET | 41 | 41 | 31 | 6 | 0 | 336 | 280 | 63 | 1.96 | 152 |
| 1969 | 25 | DET | 42 | 41 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 325 | 181 | 67 | 2.80 | 130 |
| 1970 | 26 | DET | 14 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 91.1 | 52 | 28 | 4.63 | 80 |
| 1971 | 27 | WS2 | 33 | 32 | 10 | 22 | 0 | 216.2 | 103 | 72 | 4.28 | 81 |
| 1972 | 28 | OAK | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 22.1 | 8 | 8 | 6.04 | 51 |
| 1972 | 28 | ATL | 15 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 54 | 21 | 18 | 6.50 | 53 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | P | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| 1964 | P | 19 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 1965 | P | 33 | 29 | 17 | 30 | 1 | 1 |
| 1966 | P | 38 | 38 | 14 | 34 | 0 | 2 |
| 1967 | P | 37 | 37 | 21 | 22 | 5 | 4 |
| 1968 | P | 41 | 41 | 36 | 40 | 1 | 3 |
| 1969 | P | 42 | 41 | 26 | 24 | 2 | 1 |
| 1970 | P | 14 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 1 |
| 1971 | P | 33 | 32 | 27 | 26 | 0 | 1 |
| 1972 | P | 20 | 13 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 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 McLain won: Cy Young Award 1968 (AL), MVP 1968 (AL), TSN All-Star 1968 (AL), Cy Young Award 1969 (AL), TSN All-Star 1969 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 3 wins). Full year pages: 1969, 1968, 1966.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 15 | 12 / 280 | 0 |
| 1968 | Cy Young Award (winner) | AL | 1 | 20 / 20 | 20 |
| 1968 | Most Valuable Player (winner) | AL | 1 | 280 / 280 | 20 |
| 1969 | Cy Young Award (winner) | AL | 2 | 10 / 24 | 10 |
| 1969 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 6 | 85 / 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.