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Joe Sambito played 11 major-league seasons (1976-1987) as a P (461). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 8 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 24 | HOU | 20 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | .222 | .639 | 92 |
| 1977 | 25 | HOU | 54 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .154 | .308 | -14 |
| 1978 | 26 | HOU | 62 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .167 | .452 | 34 |
| 1979 | 27 | HOU | 63 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .286 | 1.012 | 191 |
| 1980 | 28 | HOU | 64 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .000 | .100 | -69 |
| 1981 | 29 | HOU | 49 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1982 | 30 | HOU | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1984 | 32 | HOU | 32 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 24 | HOU | 20 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 53.1 | 26 | 14 | 3.54 | 99 |
| 1977 | 25 | HOU | 54 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 89 | 67 | 24 | 2.33 | 168 |
| 1978 | 26 | HOU | 62 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 88 | 96 | 32 | 3.07 | 117 |
| 1979 | 27 | HOU | 63 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 22 | 91.1 | 83 | 23 | 1.77 | 210 |
| 1980 | 28 | HOU | 64 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 90.1 | 75 | 22 | 2.19 | 164 |
| 1981 | 29 | HOU | 49 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 63.2 | 41 | 22 | 1.84 | 190 |
| 1982 | 30 | HOU | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12.2 | 7 | 2 | 0.71 | 507 |
| 1984 | 32 | HOU | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47.2 | 26 | 16 | 3.02 | 119 |
| 1985 | 33 | NYN | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.2 | 3 | 8 | 12.66 | 28 |
| 1986 | 34 | BOS | 53 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 44.2 | 30 | 16 | 4.84 | 86 |
| 1987 | 35 | BOS | 47 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 37.2 | 35 | 16 | 6.93 | 64 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | P | 20 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 1977 | P | 54 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 2 | 1 |
| 1978 | P | 62 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 3 |
| 1979 | P | 63 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 2 |
| 1980 | P | 64 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 2 |
| 1981 | P | 49 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 2 |
| 1982 | P | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 1984 | P | 32 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | P | 8 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | P | 53 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| 1987 | P | 47 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1980, 1979.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 21 | 9 / 336 | 0 |
| 1980 | Cy Young Award | NL | 7 | 1 / 120 | 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.