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Richard Dotson played 12 major-league seasons (1979-1990) as a P (305). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 12 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 20 | CHA | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24.1 | 13 | 6 | 3.70 | 114 |
| 1980 | 21 | CHA | 33 | 32 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 198 | 109 | 87 | 4.27 | 94 |
| 1981 | 22 | CHA | 24 | 24 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 141 | 73 | 49 | 3.77 | 97 |
| 1982 | 23 | CHA | 34 | 31 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 196.2 | 109 | 73 | 3.84 | 106 |
| 1983 | 24 | CHA | 35 | 35 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 240 | 137 | 106 | 3.23 | 126 |
| 1984 | 25 | CHA | 32 | 32 | 14 | 15 | 0 | 245.2 | 120 | 103 | 3.59 | 111 |
| 1985 | 26 | CHA | 9 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 52.1 | 33 | 17 | 4.47 | 93 |
| 1986 | 27 | CHA | 34 | 34 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 197 | 110 | 69 | 5.48 | 76 |
| 1987 | 28 | CHA | 31 | 31 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 211.1 | 114 | 86 | 4.17 | 107 |
| 1988 | 29 | NYA | 32 | 29 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 171 | 77 | 72 | 5.00 | 79 |
| 1989 | 30 | NYA|CHA | 28 | 26 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 151.1 | 69 | 58 | 4.46 | 87 |
| 1990 | 31 | KCA | 8 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 28.2 | 9 | 14 | 8.48 | 46 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | P | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | P | 33 | 32 | 13 | 33 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | P | 24 | 24 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 4 |
| 1982 | P | 34 | 31 | 13 | 24 | 1 | 1 |
| 1983 | P | 35 | 35 | 20 | 48 | 1 | 8 |
| 1984 | P | 32 | 32 | 8 | 36 | 1 | 3 |
| 1985 | P | 9 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | P | 34 | 34 | 13 | 23 | 3 | 0 |
| 1987 | P | 31 | 31 | 14 | 38 | 2 | 4 |
| 1988 | P | 32 | 29 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 1 |
| 1989 | P | 28 | 26 | 5 | 21 | 2 | 3 |
| 1990 | P | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
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 (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1983, 1980.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Rookie of the Year | AL | 7 | 1 / 140 | 0 |
| 1983 | Cy Young Award | AL | 4 | 9 / 140 | 0 |
| 1983 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 20 | 3 / 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.