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Ray Knight played 13 major-league seasons (1974-1988) as a 3B (1,021), 1B (339), 2B (23), OF (10), SS (4). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 13 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 22 | CIN | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .182 | .523 | 51 |
| 1977 | 25 | CIN | 80 | 92 | 8 | 24 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 16 | .261 | .693 | 92 |
| 1978 | 26 | CIN | 83 | 65 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 13 | .200 | .528 | 52 |
| 1979 | 27 | CIN | 150 | 551 | 64 | 175 | 10 | 79 | 4 | 38 | 57 | .318 | .814 | 129 |
| 1980 | 28 | CIN | 162 | 618 | 71 | 163 | 14 | 78 | 1 | 36 | 62 | .264 | .724 | 107 |
| 1981 | 29 | CIN | 106 | 386 | 43 | 100 | 6 | 34 | 2 | 33 | 51 | .259 | .692 | 102 |
| 1982 | 30 | HOU | 158 | 609 | 72 | 179 | 6 | 70 | 2 | 48 | 58 | .294 | .746 | 116 |
| 1983 | 31 | HOU | 145 | 507 | 43 | 154 | 9 | 70 | 0 | 42 | 62 | .304 | .798 | 128 |
| 1984 | 32 | HOU|NYN | 115 | 371 | 28 | 88 | 3 | 35 | 0 | 21 | 43 | .237 | .578 | 68 |
| 1985 | 33 | NYN | 90 | 271 | 22 | 59 | 6 | 36 | 1 | 13 | 32 | .218 | .580 | 67 |
| 1986 | 34 | NYN | 137 | 486 | 51 | 145 | 11 | 76 | 2 | 40 | 63 | .298 | .775 | 121 |
| 1987 | 35 | BAL | 150 | 563 | 46 | 144 | 14 | 65 | 0 | 39 | 90 | .256 | .683 | 81 |
| 1988 | 36 | DET | 105 | 299 | 34 | 65 | 3 | 33 | 1 | 20 | 30 | .217 | .572 | 61 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 3B | 14 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3B | 37 | 1 | 11 | 21 | 2 | 2 |
| 1977 | 2B | 17 | 8 | 28 | 23 | 2 | 5 |
| 1977 | OF | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1977 | SS | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1978 | 3B | 60 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 7 | 1 |
| 1978 | 2B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | OF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3B | 149 | 149 | 120 | 262 | 15 | 26 |
| 1980 | 3B | 162 | 161 | 120 | 291 | 13 | 19 |
| 1981 | 3B | 105 | 104 | 69 | 176 | 11 | 18 |
| 1982 | 1B | 96 | 93 | 945 | 55 | 10 | 76 |
| 1982 | 3B | 67 | 65 | 57 | 131 | 7 | 18 |
| 1983 | 1B | 143 | 141 | 1285 | 73 | 9 | 131 |
| 1984 | 3B | 81 | 75 | 51 | 122 | 9 | 10 |
| 1984 | 1B | 27 | 21 | 205 | 10 | 0 | 17 |
| 1985 | 3B | 73 | 67 | 52 | 109 | 7 | 5 |
| 1985 | 2B | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 3B | 132 | 130 | 88 | 204 | 16 | 17 |
| 1986 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3B | 130 | 128 | 110 | 282 | 18 | 28 |
| 1987 | 1B | 6 | 5 | 59 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1988 | 1B | 64 | 53 | 432 | 33 | 4 | 40 |
| 1988 | 3B | 11 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | OF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 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.
Ray Knight won: Babe Ruth Award 1986 (NL), World Series MVP 1986 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1986, 1982, 1979.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 5 | 82 / 336 | 2 |
| 1982 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 25 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1986 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 14 | 9 / 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.