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Ellis Valentine played 10 major-league seasons (1975-1985) as a OF (856). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 21 | MON | 12 | 33 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .364 | .976 | 178 |
| 1976 | 22 | MON | 94 | 305 | 36 | 85 | 7 | 39 | 14 | 30 | 51 | .279 | .749 | 119 |
| 1977 | 23 | MON | 127 | 508 | 63 | 149 | 25 | 76 | 13 | 30 | 58 | .293 | .835 | 128 |
| 1978 | 24 | MON | 151 | 570 | 75 | 165 | 25 | 76 | 13 | 35 | 88 | .289 | .820 | 135 |
| 1979 | 25 | MON | 146 | 548 | 73 | 151 | 21 | 82 | 11 | 22 | 74 | .276 | .758 | 111 |
| 1980 | 26 | MON | 86 | 311 | 40 | 98 | 13 | 67 | 5 | 25 | 44 | .315 | .891 | 155 |
| 1981 | 27 | MON|NYN | 70 | 245 | 23 | 51 | 8 | 36 | 0 | 11 | 49 | .208 | .597 | 73 |
| 1982 | 28 | NYN | 111 | 337 | 33 | 97 | 8 | 48 | 1 | 5 | 38 | .288 | .701 | 101 |
| 1983 | 29 | CAL | 86 | 271 | 30 | 65 | 13 | 43 | 2 | 18 | 48 | .240 | .719 | 95 |
| 1985 | 31 | TEX | 11 | 38 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .211 | .645 | 74 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | OF | 11 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 1976 | OF | 88 | 80 | 162 | 12 | 5 | 4 |
| 1977 | OF | 126 | 125 | 232 | 9 | 7 | 1 |
| 1978 | OF | 146 | 147 | 296 | 24 | 10 | 3 |
| 1979 | OF | 144 | 144 | 281 | 10 | 5 | 2 |
| 1980 | OF | 83 | 83 | 154 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 1981 | OF | 68 | 64 | 115 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | OF | 98 | 79 | 159 | 10 | 3 | 4 |
| 1983 | OF | 85 | 69 | 152 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 1985 | OF | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 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.
Ellis Valentine won: Gold Glove 1978 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1977.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 23 | 3 / 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.