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Frank Thomas played 16 major-league seasons (1951-1966) as a OF (1,045), 3B (394), 1B (268), 2B (4). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 16 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 22 | PIT | 39 | 148 | 21 | 39 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 9 | 15 | .264 | .698 | 93 |
| 1952 | 23 | PIT | 6 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .095 | .232 | -32 |
| 1953 | 24 | PIT | 128 | 455 | 68 | 116 | 30 | 102 | 1 | 50 | 93 | .255 | .837 | 122 |
| 1954 | 25 | PIT | 153 | 577 | 81 | 172 | 23 | 94 | 3 | 51 | 74 | .298 | .856 | 128 |
| 1955 | 26 | PIT | 142 | 510 | 72 | 125 | 25 | 72 | 2 | 60 | 76 | .245 | .755 | 104 |
| 1956 | 27 | PIT | 157 | 588 | 69 | 166 | 25 | 80 | 0 | 36 | 61 | .282 | .787 | 116 |
| 1957 | 28 | PIT | 151 | 594 | 72 | 172 | 23 | 89 | 3 | 44 | 66 | .290 | .795 | 118 |
| 1958 | 29 | PIT | 149 | 562 | 89 | 158 | 35 | 109 | 0 | 42 | 79 | .281 | .863 | 132 |
| 1959 | 30 | CIN | 108 | 374 | 41 | 84 | 12 | 47 | 0 | 27 | 56 | .225 | .658 | 80 |
| 1960 | 31 | CHN | 135 | 479 | 54 | 114 | 21 | 64 | 1 | 28 | 74 | .238 | .678 | 90 |
| 1961 | 32 | CHN|ML1 | 139 | 473 | 65 | 133 | 27 | 73 | 2 | 31 | 78 | .281 | .828 | 123 |
| 1962 | 33 | NYN | 156 | 571 | 69 | 152 | 34 | 94 | 2 | 48 | 95 | .266 | .824 | 126 |
| 1963 | 34 | NYN | 126 | 420 | 34 | 109 | 15 | 60 | 0 | 33 | 48 | .260 | .709 | 111 |
| 1964 | 35 | NYN|PHI | 99 | 340 | 39 | 92 | 10 | 45 | 1 | 15 | 41 | .271 | .717 | 107 |
| 1965 | 36 | PHI|HOU|ML1 | 73 | 168 | 17 | 37 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 9 | 36 | .220 | .599 | 74 |
| 1966 | 37 | CHN | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | OF | 37 | 0 | 87 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952 | OF | 5 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953 | OF | 118 | 0 | 306 | 17 | 8 | 1 |
| 1954 | OF | 153 | 152 | 418 | 14 | 5 | 2 |
| 1955 | OF | 139 | 136 | 307 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 1956 | 3B | 111 | 105 | 118 | 176 | 18 | 21 |
| 1956 | OF | 56 | 50 | 95 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 1956 | 2B | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957 | 1B | 71 | 70 | 597 | 52 | 15 | 53 |
| 1957 | OF | 59 | 57 | 105 | 14 | 3 | 3 |
| 1957 | 3B | 31 | 24 | 27 | 53 | 7 | 4 |
| 1958 | 3B | 139 | 139 | 122 | 240 | 29 | 21 |
| 1958 | OF | 8 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1958 | 1B | 2 | 2 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 1959 | 3B | 64 | 63 | 55 | 111 | 13 | 8 |
| 1959 | OF | 33 | 18 | 40 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1959 | 1B | 14 | 14 | 111 | 15 | 2 | 11 |
| 1960 | 1B | 50 | 48 | 426 | 34 | 8 | 36 |
| 1960 | OF | 49 | 39 | 77 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 1960 | 3B | 33 | 33 | 25 | 55 | 6 | 4 |
| 1961 | OF | 119 | 117 | 211 | 6 | 10 | 0 |
| 1961 | 1B | 17 | 8 | 89 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 1962 | OF | 126 | 126 | 216 | 14 | 9 | 0 |
| 1962 | 1B | 11 | 9 | 88 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1962 | 3B | 10 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 4 | 1 |
| 1963 | OF | 96 | 94 | 158 | 8 | 2 | 1 |
| 1963 | 1B | 15 | 15 | 146 | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| 1963 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1964 | 1B | 55 | 53 | 439 | 42 | 9 | 48 |
| 1964 | OF | 31 | 31 | 58 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1964 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965 | 1B | 33 | 28 | 250 | 13 | 4 | 24 |
| 1965 | OF | 16 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965 | 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.
Frank Thomas won: TSN All-Star 1958 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1958, 1957, 1955, 1954, 1953.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 18 | 6 / 336 | 0 |
| 1954 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 14 | 24 / 336 | 0 |
| 1955 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 24 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1957 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 20 | 8 / 336 | 0 |
| 1958 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 4 | 143 / 336 | 2 |
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.