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Rocky Colavito played 14 major-league seasons (1955-1968) as a OF (1,774), 1B (11), P (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 15 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 22 | CLE | 5 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .444 | 1.111 | 206 |
| 1956 | 23 | CLE | 101 | 322 | 55 | 89 | 21 | 65 | 0 | 49 | 46 | .276 | .903 | 143 |
| 1957 | 24 | CLE | 134 | 461 | 66 | 116 | 25 | 84 | 1 | 71 | 80 | .252 | .819 | 129 |
| 1958 | 25 | CLE | 143 | 489 | 80 | 148 | 41 | 113 | 0 | 84 | 89 | .303 | 1.024 | 187 |
| 1959 | 26 | CLE | 154 | 588 | 90 | 151 | 42 | 111 | 3 | 71 | 86 | .257 | .849 | 137 |
| 1960 | 27 | DET | 145 | 555 | 67 | 138 | 35 | 87 | 3 | 53 | 80 | .249 | .791 | 118 |
| 1961 | 28 | DET | 163 | 583 | 129 | 169 | 45 | 140 | 1 | 113 | 75 | .290 | .982 | 168 |
| 1962 | 29 | DET | 161 | 601 | 90 | 164 | 37 | 112 | 2 | 96 | 68 | .273 | .885 | 144 |
| 1963 | 30 | DET | 160 | 597 | 91 | 162 | 22 | 91 | 0 | 84 | 78 | .271 | .795 | 129 |
| 1964 | 31 | KC1 | 160 | 588 | 89 | 161 | 34 | 102 | 3 | 83 | 56 | .274 | .873 | 148 |
| 1965 | 32 | CLE | 162 | 592 | 92 | 170 | 26 | 108 | 1 | 93 | 63 | .287 | .851 | 149 |
| 1966 | 33 | CLE | 151 | 533 | 68 | 127 | 30 | 72 | 2 | 76 | 81 | .238 | .767 | 126 |
| 1967 | 34 | CLE|CHA | 123 | 381 | 30 | 88 | 8 | 50 | 3 | 49 | 41 | .231 | .651 | 99 |
| 1968 | 35 | NYA | 39 | 91 | 13 | 20 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 14 | 17 | .220 | .781 | 143 |
| 1968 | 35 | LAN | 40 | 113 | 8 | 23 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 15 | 18 | .204 | .604 | 88 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 25 | CLE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0.00 | — |
| 1968 | 35 | NYA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | 1 | 2 | 0.00 | — |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | OF | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1956 | OF | 98 | 88 | 177 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 1957 | OF | 130 | 125 | 268 | 12 | 11 | 2 |
| 1958 | OF | 129 | 127 | 243 | 14 | 5 | 6 |
| 1958 | 1B | 11 | 9 | 84 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 1958 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959 | OF | 154 | 154 | 319 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| 1960 | OF | 144 | 143 | 271 | 11 | 7 | 5 |
| 1961 | OF | 161 | 161 | 329 | 16 | 9 | 4 |
| 1962 | OF | 161 | 161 | 359 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
| 1963 | OF | 159 | 159 | 319 | 10 | 4 | 0 |
| 1964 | OF | 159 | 159 | 275 | 10 | 8 | 1 |
| 1965 | OF | 162 | 162 | 265 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| 1966 | OF | 146 | 145 | 261 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| 1967 | OF | 108 | 105 | 158 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 1968 | OF | 61 | 55 | 72 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 1968 | P | 1 | 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.
Rocky Colavito won: TSN All-Star 1961 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (7 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1965, 1964, 1962, 1961, 1959, 1958, 1956.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Rookie of the Year | AL | 2 | 1 / 24 | 1 |
| 1958 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 3 | 181 / 336 | 4 |
| 1959 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 4 | 117 / 336 | 0 |
| 1961 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 8 | 51 / 280 | 0 |
| 1962 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 16 | 13 / 280 | 0 |
| 1964 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 24 | 5 / 280 | 0 |
| 1965 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 5 | 89 / 280 | 0 |
Rocky Colavito ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #45 | right fielders | 1958 | 187 OPS+ |
| #126 | left fielders | 1961 | 168 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.