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Roger Metzger played 11 major-league seasons (1970-1980) as a SS (1,173), 2B (15), 3B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 11 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 23 | CHN | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1971 | 24 | HOU | 150 | 562 | 64 | 132 | 0 | 26 | 15 | 44 | 50 | .235 | .593 | 75 |
| 1972 | 25 | HOU | 153 | 641 | 84 | 142 | 2 | 38 | 23 | 60 | 71 | .222 | .547 | 62 |
| 1973 | 26 | HOU | 154 | 580 | 67 | 145 | 1 | 35 | 10 | 39 | 70 | .250 | .622 | 79 |
| 1974 | 27 | HOU | 143 | 572 | 66 | 145 | 0 | 30 | 9 | 37 | 73 | .253 | .617 | 79 |
| 1975 | 28 | HOU | 127 | 450 | 54 | 102 | 2 | 26 | 4 | 41 | 39 | .227 | .584 | 68 |
| 1976 | 29 | HOU | 152 | 481 | 37 | 101 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 52 | 63 | .210 | .556 | 64 |
| 1977 | 30 | HOU | 97 | 269 | 24 | 50 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 32 | 24 | .186 | .535 | 49 |
| 1978 | 31 | HOU|SFN | 120 | 358 | 28 | 88 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 24 | 26 | .246 | .577 | 68 |
| 1979 | 32 | SFN | 94 | 259 | 24 | 65 | 0 | 31 | 11 | 23 | 31 | .251 | .651 | 84 |
| 1980 | 33 | SFN | 28 | 27 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | .074 | .241 | -28 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | SS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 1971 | SS | 148 | 145 | 275 | 459 | 17 | 91 |
| 1972 | SS | 153 | 153 | 238 | 504 | 22 | 101 |
| 1973 | SS | 149 | 146 | 231 | 429 | 12 | 83 |
| 1974 | SS | 143 | 143 | 238 | 451 | 17 | 85 |
| 1975 | SS | 126 | 123 | 186 | 441 | 15 | 83 |
| 1976 | SS | 150 | 149 | 253 | 462 | 10 | 93 |
| 1976 | 2B | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 1977 | SS | 96 | 86 | 130 | 260 | 11 | 45 |
| 1977 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | SS | 116 | 105 | 171 | 287 | 14 | 51 |
| 1978 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | SS | 78 | 68 | 108 | 219 | 15 | 34 |
| 1979 | 2B | 10 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 0 | 4 |
| 1979 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | SS | 13 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 1 | 4 |
| 1980 | 2B | 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.
Roger Metzger won: Gold Glove 1973 (NL).
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.