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Rick Dempsey played 24 major-league seasons (1969-1992) as a C (1,633), OF (23), 1B (3), P (2), 3B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 24 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 20 | MIN | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500 | 1.238 | 257 |
| 1970 | 21 | MIN | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .125 | -61 |
| 1971 | 22 | MIN | 6 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .308 | .742 | 118 |
| 1972 | 23 | MIN | 25 | 40 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | .200 | .529 | 65 |
| 1973 | 24 | NYA | 6 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .182 | .432 | 24 |
| 1974 | 25 | NYA | 43 | 109 | 12 | 26 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 7 | .239 | .609 | 76 |
| 1975 | 26 | NYA | 71 | 145 | 18 | 38 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 15 | .262 | .691 | 97 |
| 1976 | 27 | NYA|BAL | 80 | 216 | 12 | 42 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 18 | 21 | .194 | .466 | 39 |
| 1977 | 28 | BAL | 91 | 270 | 27 | 61 | 3 | 34 | 2 | 34 | 34 | .226 | .629 | 73 |
| 1978 | 29 | BAL | 136 | 441 | 41 | 114 | 6 | 32 | 7 | 48 | 54 | .259 | .683 | 93 |
| 1979 | 30 | BAL | 124 | 368 | 48 | 88 | 6 | 41 | 0 | 38 | 37 | .239 | .658 | 78 |
| 1980 | 31 | BAL | 119 | 362 | 51 | 95 | 9 | 40 | 3 | 36 | 45 | .262 | .759 | 107 |
| 1981 | 32 | BAL | 92 | 251 | 24 | 54 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 32 | 36 | .215 | .641 | 85 |
| 1982 | 33 | BAL | 125 | 344 | 35 | 88 | 5 | 36 | 0 | 46 | 37 | .256 | .688 | 90 |
| 1983 | 34 | BAL | 128 | 347 | 33 | 80 | 4 | 32 | 1 | 40 | 54 | .231 | .634 | 76 |
| 1984 | 35 | BAL | 109 | 330 | 37 | 76 | 11 | 34 | 1 | 40 | 58 | .230 | .676 | 87 |
| 1985 | 36 | BAL | 132 | 362 | 54 | 92 | 12 | 52 | 0 | 50 | 87 | .254 | .751 | 105 |
| 1986 | 37 | BAL | 122 | 327 | 42 | 68 | 13 | 29 | 1 | 45 | 78 | .208 | .689 | 87 |
| 1987 | 38 | CLE | 60 | 141 | 16 | 25 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 23 | 29 | .177 | .565 | 52 |
| 1988 | 39 | LAN | 77 | 167 | 25 | 42 | 7 | 30 | 1 | 25 | 44 | .251 | .793 | 135 |
| 1989 | 40 | LAN | 79 | 151 | 16 | 27 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 30 | 37 | .179 | .623 | 85 |
| 1990 | 41 | LAN | 62 | 128 | 13 | 25 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 23 | 29 | .195 | .599 | 72 |
| 1991 | 42 | ML4 | 61 | 147 | 15 | 34 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 23 | 20 | .231 | .676 | 88 |
| 1992 | 43 | BAL | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .111 | .384 | 12 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 42 | ML4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4.50 | 91 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | C | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1970 | C | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1971 | C | 6 | 4 | 30 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 1972 | C | 23 | 8 | 67 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 1973 | C | 5 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1974 | C | 31 | 25 | 152 | 22 | 4 | 0 |
| 1974 | OF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1975 | C | 19 | 12 | 76 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| 1975 | OF | 8 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1975 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1976 | C | 67 | 60 | 302 | 39 | 4 | 8 |
| 1976 | OF | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1977 | C | 91 | 84 | 416 | 52 | 11 | 10 |
| 1978 | C | 135 | 130 | 636 | 79 | 11 | 14 |
| 1979 | C | 124 | 112 | 615 | 81 | 7 | 13 |
| 1980 | C | 112 | 95 | 531 | 54 | 8 | 8 |
| 1980 | OF | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1981 | C | 90 | 71 | 384 | 35 | 1 | 6 |
| 1982 | C | 124 | 101 | 491 | 46 | 5 | 8 |
| 1983 | C | 128 | 109 | 591 | 65 | 2 | 7 |
| 1984 | C | 108 | 104 | 453 | 43 | 4 | 5 |
| 1985 | C | 131 | 113 | 575 | 49 | 8 | 5 |
| 1986 | C | 121 | 101 | 659 | 53 | 7 | 9 |
| 1987 | C | 59 | 48 | 293 | 18 | 5 | 3 |
| 1988 | C | 74 | 46 | 333 | 29 | 4 | 4 |
| 1989 | C | 62 | 38 | 265 | 35 | 5 | 4 |
| 1990 | C | 53 | 33 | 213 | 27 | 2 | 3 |
| 1991 | C | 56 | 44 | 246 | 23 | 2 | 4 |
| 1991 | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | C | 8 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 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.
Rick Dempsey won: Babe Ruth Award 1983 (AL), World Series MVP 1983 (ML).
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.