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Mickey Rivers played 15 major-league seasons (1970-1984) as a OF (1,253). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 15 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 22 | CAL | 17 | 25 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | .320 | .814 | 134 |
| 1971 | 23 | CAL | 79 | 268 | 31 | 71 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 19 | 38 | .265 | .652 | 92 |
| 1972 | 24 | CAL | 58 | 159 | 18 | 34 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 26 | .214 | .533 | 64 |
| 1973 | 25 | CAL | 30 | 129 | 26 | 45 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 11 | .349 | .849 | 139 |
| 1974 | 26 | CAL | 118 | 466 | 69 | 133 | 3 | 31 | 30 | 39 | 47 | .285 | .734 | 111 |
| 1975 | 27 | CAL | 155 | 616 | 70 | 175 | 1 | 53 | 70 | 43 | 42 | .284 | .690 | 96 |
| 1976 | 28 | NYA | 137 | 590 | 95 | 184 | 8 | 67 | 43 | 13 | 51 | .312 | .760 | 122 |
| 1977 | 29 | NYA | 138 | 565 | 79 | 184 | 12 | 69 | 22 | 18 | 45 | .326 | .789 | 114 |
| 1978 | 30 | NYA | 141 | 559 | 78 | 148 | 11 | 48 | 25 | 29 | 51 | .265 | .699 | 96 |
| 1979 | 31 | NYA|TEX | 132 | 533 | 72 | 156 | 9 | 50 | 10 | 22 | 39 | .293 | .743 | 99 |
| 1980 | 32 | TEX | 147 | 630 | 96 | 210 | 7 | 60 | 18 | 20 | 34 | .333 | .789 | 116 |
| 1981 | 33 | TEX | 99 | 399 | 62 | 114 | 3 | 26 | 9 | 24 | 31 | .286 | .698 | 102 |
| 1982 | 34 | TEX | 19 | 68 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .235 | .555 | 51 |
| 1983 | 35 | TEX | 96 | 309 | 37 | 88 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 21 | .285 | .658 | 81 |
| 1984 | 36 | TEX | 102 | 313 | 40 | 94 | 4 | 33 | 5 | 9 | 23 | .300 | .706 | 95 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | OF | 5 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971 | OF | 76 | 67 | 160 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| 1972 | OF | 48 | 38 | 105 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1973 | OF | 29 | 29 | 60 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1974 | OF | 116 | 114 | 309 | 9 | 2 | 3 |
| 1975 | OF | 152 | 150 | 371 | 13 | 9 | 3 |
| 1976 | OF | 136 | 131 | 407 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977 | OF | 136 | 129 | 380 | 11 | 7 | 1 |
| 1978 | OF | 138 | 135 | 384 | 8 | 8 | 2 |
| 1979 | OF | 126 | 123 | 300 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 1980 | OF | 141 | 138 | 342 | 19 | 8 | 4 |
| 1981 | OF | 97 | 94 | 225 | 12 | 1 | 3 |
| 1983 | OF | 23 | 20 | 48 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | OF | 30 | 24 | 49 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
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.
Mickey Rivers won: TSN All-Star 1976 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1980, 1978, 1977, 1976.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 3 | 179 / 336 | 1 |
| 1977 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 11 | 59 / 392 | 0 |
| 1978 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 27 | 6 / 392 | 0 |
| 1980 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 19 | 7 / 392 | 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.