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Don Drysdale played 14 major-league seasons (1956-1969) as a P (518). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 20 | BRO | 26 | 26 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | .192 | .568 | 55 |
| 1957 | 21 | BRO | 37 | 73 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 29 | .123 | .405 | 13 |
| 1958 | 22 | LAN | 47 | 66 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 25 | .227 | .852 | 125 |
| 1959 | 23 | LAN | 46 | 91 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 31 | .165 | .528 | 43 |
| 1960 | 24 | LAN | 41 | 83 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 32 | .157 | .488 | 37 |
| 1961 | 25 | LAN | 40 | 83 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 24 | .193 | .630 | 69 |
| 1962 | 26 | LAN | 43 | 111 | 9 | 22 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 29 | .198 | .498 | 39 |
| 1963 | 27 | LAN | 42 | 96 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 35 | .167 | .439 | 33 |
| 1964 | 28 | LAN | 40 | 110 | 10 | 19 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 29 | .173 | .420 | 23 |
| 1965 | 29 | LAN | 58 | 130 | 18 | 39 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 34 | .300 | .839 | 142 |
| 1966 | 30 | LAN | 46 | 106 | 6 | 20 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 28 | .189 | .475 | 36 |
| 1967 | 31 | LAN | 38 | 93 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 26 | .129 | .312 | -6 |
| 1968 | 32 | LAN | 31 | 79 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | .177 | .377 | 18 |
| 1969 | 33 | LAN | 12 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | .136 | .390 | 14 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 20 | BRO | 25 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 99 | 55 | 31 | 2.64 | 143 |
| 1957 | 21 | BRO | 34 | 29 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 221 | 148 | 61 | 2.69 | 144 |
| 1958 | 22 | LAN | 44 | 29 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 211.2 | 131 | 72 | 4.17 | 95 |
| 1959 | 23 | LAN | 44 | 36 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 270.2 | 242 | 93 | 3.46 | 114 |
| 1960 | 24 | LAN | 41 | 36 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 269 | 246 | 72 | 2.84 | 132 |
| 1961 | 25 | LAN | 40 | 37 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 244 | 182 | 83 | 3.69 | 109 |
| 1962 | 26 | LAN | 43 | 41 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 314.1 | 232 | 78 | 2.83 | 139 |
| 1963 | 27 | LAN | 42 | 42 | 19 | 17 | 0 | 315.1 | 251 | 57 | 2.63 | 125 |
| 1964 | 28 | LAN | 40 | 40 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 321.1 | 237 | 68 | 2.18 | 162 |
| 1965 | 29 | LAN | 44 | 42 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 308.1 | 210 | 66 | 2.77 | 128 |
| 1966 | 30 | LAN | 40 | 40 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 273.2 | 177 | 45 | 3.42 | 105 |
| 1967 | 31 | LAN | 38 | 38 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 282 | 196 | 60 | 2.74 | 123 |
| 1968 | 32 | LAN | 31 | 31 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 239 | 155 | 56 | 2.15 | 139 |
| 1969 | 33 | LAN | 12 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 62.2 | 24 | 13 | 4.45 | 81 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | P | 25 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 2 | 1 |
| 1957 | P | 34 | 29 | 15 | 60 | 2 | 4 |
| 1958 | P | 44 | 29 | 15 | 45 | 6 | 10 |
| 1959 | P | 44 | 36 | 18 | 48 | 3 | 4 |
| 1960 | P | 41 | 36 | 18 | 60 | 3 | 3 |
| 1961 | P | 40 | 37 | 13 | 36 | 3 | 3 |
| 1962 | P | 43 | 41 | 10 | 60 | 7 | 5 |
| 1963 | P | 42 | 42 | 19 | 62 | 4 | 7 |
| 1964 | P | 40 | 40 | 13 | 68 | 3 | 5 |
| 1965 | P | 44 | 42 | 22 | 55 | 9 | 4 |
| 1966 | P | 40 | 40 | 10 | 45 | 7 | 1 |
| 1967 | P | 38 | 38 | 11 | 64 | 5 | 3 |
| 1968 | P | 31 | 31 | 15 | 50 | 5 | 4 |
| 1969 | P | 12 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 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.
Don Drysdale won: Cy Young Award 1962 (ML), TSN All-Star 1962 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1965, 1963, 1962, 1957.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 19 | 8 / 336 | 0 |
| 1962 | Cy Young Award (winner) | ML | 1 | 14 / 20 | 14 |
| 1962 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 5 | 85 / 280 | 0 |
| 1963 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 22 | 3 / 280 | 0 |
| 1965 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 5 | 77 / 280 | 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.