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Sam Thompson played 15 major-league seasons (1885-1906) as a OF (1,409), 1B (1). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 25 | DTN | 63 | 254 | 58 | 77 | 7 | 44 | 0 | 16 | 22 | .303 | .844 | 176 |
| 1886 | 26 | DTN | 122 | 503 | 101 | 156 | 8 | 89 | 13 | 35 | 31 | .310 | .800 | 149 |
| 1887 | 27 | DTN | 127 | 545 | 118 | 203 | 10 | 166 | 22 | 32 | 19 | .372 | .982 | 176 |
| 1888 | 28 | DTN | 56 | 238 | 51 | 67 | 6 | 40 | 5 | 23 | 10 | .282 | .819 | 167 |
| 1889 | 29 | PHI | 128 | 533 | 103 | 158 | 20 | 111 | 24 | 36 | 22 | .296 | .839 | 140 |
| 1890 | 30 | PHI | 132 | 549 | 116 | 172 | 4 | 102 | 25 | 42 | 29 | .313 | .813 | 142 |
| 1891 | 31 | PHI | 133 | 554 | 108 | 163 | 7 | 90 | 29 | 52 | 20 | .294 | .773 | 132 |
| 1892 | 32 | PHI | 153 | 609 | 109 | 186 | 9 | 104 | 28 | 59 | 19 | .305 | .809 | 151 |
| 1893 | 33 | PHI | 131 | 600 | 130 | 222 | 11 | 126 | 18 | 50 | 17 | .370 | .954 | 159 |
| 1894 | 34 | PHI | 102 | 451 | 114 | 187 | 13 | 149 | 27 | 42 | 13 | .415 | 1.162 | 183 |
| 1895 | 35 | PHI | 119 | 538 | 131 | 211 | 18 | 165 | 27 | 31 | 11 | .392 | 1.085 | 183 |
| 1896 | 36 | PHI | 119 | 517 | 103 | 154 | 12 | 100 | 12 | 28 | 13 | .298 | .790 | 112 |
| 1897 | 37 | PHI | 3 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .231 | .670 | 80 |
| 1898 | 38 | PHI | 14 | 63 | 14 | 22 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .349 | .959 | 181 |
| 1906 | 46 | DET | 8 | 31 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .226 | .540 | 74 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | OF | 63 | 0 | 84 | 24 | 14 | 0 |
| 1886 | OF | 122 | 0 | 194 | 29 | 13 | 11 |
| 1887 | OF | 127 | 0 | 217 | 24 | 24 | 7 |
| 1888 | OF | 56 | 0 | 86 | 4 | 12 | 0 |
| 1889 | OF | 128 | 0 | 173 | 19 | 21 | 7 |
| 1890 | OF | 132 | 0 | 170 | 29 | 13 | 5 |
| 1891 | OF | 133 | 0 | 234 | 32 | 18 | 6 |
| 1892 | OF | 153 | 0 | 223 | 28 | 17 | 7 |
| 1893 | OF | 131 | 0 | 171 | 17 | 14 | 3 |
| 1893 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1894 | OF | 102 | 0 | 161 | 12 | 5 | 2 |
| 1895 | OF | 118 | 0 | 186 | 31 | 13 | 2 |
| 1896 | OF | 119 | 0 | 231 | 28 | 7 | 11 |
| 1897 | OF | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1898 | OF | 14 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906 | OF | 8 | 8 | 14 | 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.
Sam Thompson ranks on 3 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #55 | right fielders | 1895 | 183 OPS+ |
| #56 | right fielders | 1894 | 183 OPS+ |
| #78 | right fielders | 1887 | 176 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.