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Don Buford played 10 major-league seasons (1963-1972) as a OF (555), 2B (392), 3B (352). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 26 | CHA | 12 | 42 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 7 | .286 | .759 | 119 |
| 1964 | 27 | CHA | 135 | 442 | 62 | 116 | 4 | 30 | 12 | 46 | 62 | .262 | .685 | 98 |
| 1965 | 28 | CHA | 155 | 586 | 93 | 166 | 10 | 47 | 17 | 67 | 76 | .283 | .747 | 120 |
| 1966 | 29 | CHA | 163 | 607 | 85 | 148 | 8 | 52 | 51 | 69 | 71 | .244 | .672 | 100 |
| 1967 | 30 | CHA | 156 | 535 | 61 | 129 | 4 | 32 | 34 | 65 | 51 | .241 | .638 | 96 |
| 1968 | 31 | BAL | 130 | 426 | 65 | 120 | 15 | 46 | 27 | 57 | 46 | .282 | .804 | 151 |
| 1969 | 32 | BAL | 144 | 554 | 99 | 161 | 11 | 64 | 19 | 96 | 62 | .291 | .814 | 136 |
| 1970 | 33 | BAL | 144 | 504 | 99 | 137 | 17 | 66 | 16 | 109 | 55 | .272 | .816 | 134 |
| 1971 | 34 | BAL | 122 | 449 | 99 | 130 | 19 | 54 | 15 | 89 | 62 | .290 | .890 | 161 |
| 1972 | 35 | BAL | 125 | 408 | 46 | 84 | 5 | 22 | 8 | 69 | 83 | .206 | .593 | 84 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 3B | 9 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| 1963 | 2B | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1964 | 2B | 92 | 85 | 196 | 198 | 13 | 60 |
| 1964 | 3B | 37 | 22 | 30 | 63 | 3 | 5 |
| 1965 | 2B | 139 | 128 | 326 | 357 | 13 | 93 |
| 1965 | 3B | 41 | 15 | 13 | 59 | 1 | 9 |
| 1966 | 3B | 133 | 121 | 98 | 301 | 26 | 24 |
| 1966 | 2B | 37 | 31 | 88 | 81 | 8 | 18 |
| 1966 | OF | 11 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967 | 3B | 121 | 94 | 95 | 250 | 19 | 16 |
| 1967 | 2B | 51 | 39 | 102 | 99 | 8 | 30 |
| 1967 | OF | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968 | OF | 65 | 66 | 130 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968 | 2B | 58 | 37 | 109 | 107 | 8 | 22 |
| 1968 | 3B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1969 | OF | 128 | 128 | 228 | 7 | 4 | 1 |
| 1969 | 2B | 10 | 8 | 22 | 21 | 2 | 2 |
| 1969 | 3B | 6 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 2 |
| 1970 | OF | 130 | 125 | 221 | 13 | 3 | 3 |
| 1970 | 2B | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 1970 | 3B | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971 | OF | 115 | 113 | 217 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| 1972 | OF | 105 | 101 | 173 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1971, 1970, 1968, 1965.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 25 | 3 / 280 | 0 |
| 1968 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 15 | 11 / 280 | 0 |
| 1970 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 20 | 12 / 336 | 0 |
| 1971 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 27 | 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.