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Rico Petrocelli played 13 major-league seasons (1963-1976) as a SS (774), 3B (727), 2B (5), 1B (2). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 20 | BOS | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .750 | 111 |
| 1965 | 22 | BOS | 103 | 323 | 38 | 75 | 13 | 33 | 0 | 36 | 71 | .232 | .721 | 110 |
| 1966 | 23 | BOS | 139 | 522 | 58 | 124 | 18 | 59 | 1 | 41 | 99 | .238 | .678 | 100 |
| 1967 | 24 | BOS | 142 | 491 | 53 | 127 | 17 | 66 | 2 | 49 | 93 | .259 | .750 | 128 |
| 1968 | 25 | BOS | 123 | 406 | 41 | 95 | 12 | 46 | 0 | 31 | 73 | .234 | .667 | 108 |
| 1969 | 26 | BOS | 154 | 535 | 92 | 159 | 40 | 97 | 3 | 98 | 68 | .297 | .992 | 184 |
| 1970 | 27 | BOS | 157 | 583 | 82 | 152 | 29 | 103 | 1 | 67 | 82 | .261 | .807 | 129 |
| 1971 | 28 | BOS | 158 | 553 | 82 | 139 | 28 | 89 | 2 | 91 | 108 | .251 | .815 | 138 |
| 1972 | 29 | BOS | 147 | 521 | 62 | 125 | 15 | 75 | 0 | 78 | 91 | .240 | .702 | 116 |
| 1973 | 30 | BOS | 100 | 356 | 44 | 87 | 13 | 45 | 0 | 47 | 64 | .244 | .729 | 105 |
| 1974 | 31 | BOS | 129 | 454 | 53 | 121 | 15 | 76 | 1 | 48 | 74 | .267 | .757 | 117 |
| 1975 | 32 | BOS | 115 | 402 | 31 | 96 | 7 | 59 | 0 | 41 | 66 | .239 | .644 | 83 |
| 1976 | 33 | BOS | 85 | 240 | 17 | 51 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 34 | 36 | .213 | .594 | 76 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | SS | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1965 | SS | 93 | 93 | 151 | 278 | 19 | 45 |
| 1966 | SS | 127 | 125 | 206 | 381 | 28 | 69 |
| 1966 | 3B | 5 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 3 |
| 1967 | SS | 141 | 137 | 223 | 402 | 19 | 73 |
| 1968 | SS | 117 | 115 | 169 | 360 | 12 | 66 |
| 1968 | 1B | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1969 | SS | 153 | 153 | 269 | 466 | 14 | 103 |
| 1969 | 3B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1970 | SS | 141 | 138 | 262 | 393 | 20 | 77 |
| 1970 | 3B | 18 | 18 | 14 | 37 | 1 | 3 |
| 1971 | 3B | 156 | 156 | 118 | 334 | 11 | 37 |
| 1972 | 3B | 146 | 146 | 146 | 278 | 13 | 38 |
| 1973 | 3B | 99 | 99 | 73 | 224 | 6 | 22 |
| 1974 | 3B | 116 | 115 | 83 | 219 | 12 | 23 |
| 1975 | 3B | 113 | 111 | 85 | 229 | 13 | 13 |
| 1976 | 3B | 73 | 65 | 57 | 120 | 6 | 11 |
| 1976 | 2B | 5 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 4 |
| 1976 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1976 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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.
Rico Petrocelli won: TSN All-Star 1969 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1972, 1969, 1967.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 18 | 7 / 280 | 0 |
| 1969 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 7 | 71 / 336 | 0 |
| 1972 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 20 | 9 / 336 | 0 |
Rico Petrocelli ranks on 3 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #7 | shortstops | 1969 | 184 OPS+ |
| #148 | shortstops | 1970 | 129 OPS+ |
| #151 | shortstops | 1967 | 128 OPS+ |
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.