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Rick Sutcliffe played 18 major-league seasons (1976-1994) as a P (457). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 20 | LAN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1979 | 23 | LAN | 40 | 85 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 20 | .247 | .571 | 60 |
| 1980 | 24 | LAN | 44 | 27 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | .148 | .355 | 4 |
| 1981 | 25 | LAN | 14 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .182 | .490 | 46 |
| 1984 | 28 | CHN | 20 | 56 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 18 | .250 | .579 | 69 |
| 1985 | 29 | CHN | 20 | 43 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | .233 | .563 | 63 |
| 1986 | 30 | CHN | 29 | 53 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | .208 | .552 | 57 |
| 1987 | 31 | CHN | 35 | 81 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 19 | .148 | .448 | 23 |
| 1988 | 32 | CHN | 33 | 75 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 18 | .160 | .464 | 37 |
| 1989 | 33 | CHN | 37 | 70 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 19 | .143 | .421 | 27 |
| 1990 | 34 | CHN | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .000 | .286 | -11 |
| 1991 | 35 | CHN | 20 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | .094 | .246 | -28 |
| 1994 | 38 | SLN | 16 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .130 | .304 | -19 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 20 | LAN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0.00 | — |
| 1978 | 22 | LAN | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | — |
| 1979 | 23 | LAN | 39 | 30 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 242 | 117 | 97 | 3.46 | 108 |
| 1980 | 24 | LAN | 42 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 110 | 59 | 55 | 5.56 | 65 |
| 1981 | 25 | LAN | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 16 | 20 | 4.02 | 87 |
| 1982 | 26 | CLE | 34 | 27 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 216 | 142 | 98 | 2.96 | 138 |
| 1983 | 27 | CLE | 36 | 35 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 243.1 | 160 | 102 | 4.29 | 95 |
| 1984 | 28 | CLE | 15 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 94.1 | 58 | 46 | 5.15 | 77 |
| 1984 | 28 | CHN | 20 | 20 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 150.1 | 155 | 39 | 2.69 | 133 |
| 1985 | 29 | CHN | 20 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 130 | 102 | 44 | 3.18 | 113 |
| 1986 | 30 | CHN | 28 | 27 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 176.2 | 122 | 96 | 4.64 | 80 |
| 1987 | 31 | CHN | 34 | 34 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 237.1 | 174 | 106 | 3.68 | 111 |
| 1988 | 32 | CHN | 32 | 32 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 226 | 144 | 70 | 3.86 | 89 |
| 1989 | 33 | CHN | 35 | 34 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 229 | 153 | 69 | 3.66 | 96 |
| 1990 | 34 | CHN | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21.1 | 7 | 12 | 5.91 | 64 |
| 1991 | 35 | CHN | 19 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 96.2 | 52 | 45 | 4.10 | 90 |
| 1992 | 36 | BAL | 36 | 36 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 237.1 | 109 | 74 | 4.47 | 88 |
| 1993 | 37 | BAL | 29 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 166 | 80 | 74 | 5.75 | 75 |
| 1994 | 38 | SLN | 16 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 67.2 | 26 | 32 | 6.52 | 65 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1979 | P | 39 | 30 | 18 | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| 1980 | P | 42 | 10 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | P | 14 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | P | 34 | 27 | 14 | 32 | 1 | 1 |
| 1983 | P | 36 | 35 | 36 | 29 | 0 | 1 |
| 1984 | P | 35 | 35 | 19 | 35 | 2 | 1 |
| 1985 | P | 20 | 20 | 12 | 23 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | P | 28 | 27 | 8 | 30 | 1 | 4 |
| 1987 | P | 34 | 34 | 12 | 54 | 4 | 4 |
| 1988 | P | 32 | 32 | 21 | 37 | 3 | 2 |
| 1989 | P | 35 | 34 | 22 | 31 | 1 | 3 |
| 1990 | P | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | P | 19 | 18 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 2 |
| 1992 | P | 36 | 36 | 11 | 24 | 3 | 2 |
| 1993 | P | 29 | 28 | 9 | 30 | 1 | 2 |
| 1994 | P | 16 | 14 | 5 | 16 | 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.
Rick Sutcliffe won: Rookie of the Year 1979 (NL), Cy Young Award 1984 (NL), TSN All-Star 1984 (NL), TSN All-Star 1987 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (6 ballot finishes, 2 wins). Full year pages: 1987, 1984, 1982, 1979.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Rookie of the Year (winner) | NL | 1 | 20 / 24 | 20 |
| 1982 | Cy Young Award | AL | 5 | 14 / 140 | 1 |
| 1982 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 33 | 1 / 392 | 0 |
| 1984 | Cy Young Award (winner) | NL | 1 | 120 / 120 | 24 |
| 1984 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 4 | 151 / 336 | 0 |
| 1987 | Cy Young Award | NL | 2 | 55 / 120 | 4 |
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.