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Steve Balboni played 11 major-league seasons (1981-1993) as a 1B (630). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 24 | NYA | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .286 | 1.089 | 209 |
| 1982 | 25 | NYA | 33 | 107 | 8 | 20 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 34 | .187 | .508 | 39 |
| 1983 | 26 | NYA | 32 | 86 | 8 | 20 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 8 | 23 | .233 | .725 | 97 |
| 1984 | 27 | KCA | 126 | 438 | 58 | 107 | 28 | 77 | 0 | 45 | 139 | .244 | .817 | 123 |
| 1985 | 28 | KCA | 160 | 600 | 74 | 146 | 36 | 88 | 1 | 52 | 166 | .243 | .783 | 111 |
| 1986 | 29 | KCA | 138 | 512 | 54 | 117 | 29 | 88 | 0 | 43 | 146 | .229 | .738 | 98 |
| 1987 | 30 | KCA | 121 | 386 | 44 | 80 | 24 | 60 | 0 | 34 | 97 | .207 | .700 | 82 |
| 1988 | 31 | KCA|SEA | 118 | 413 | 46 | 97 | 23 | 66 | 0 | 24 | 87 | .235 | .725 | 100 |
| 1989 | 32 | NYA | 110 | 300 | 33 | 71 | 17 | 59 | 0 | 25 | 67 | .237 | .756 | 111 |
| 1990 | 33 | NYA | 116 | 266 | 24 | 51 | 17 | 34 | 0 | 35 | 91 | .192 | .697 | 94 |
| 1993 | 36 | TEX | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .600 | 1.200 | 225 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 1B | 3 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1982 | 1B | 26 | 25 | 194 | 13 | 2 | 23 |
| 1983 | 1B | 23 | 23 | 178 | 9 | 3 | 19 |
| 1984 | 1B | 125 | 123 | 1102 | 79 | 15 | 102 |
| 1985 | 1B | 160 | 159 | 1573 | 101 | 12 | 138 |
| 1986 | 1B | 137 | 136 | 1236 | 98 | 18 | 115 |
| 1987 | 1B | 55 | 54 | 521 | 41 | 6 | 39 |
| 1988 | 1B | 53 | 49 | 428 | 30 | 4 | 45 |
| 1989 | 1B | 20 | 15 | 150 | 7 | 1 | 15 |
| 1990 | 1B | 28 | 20 | 183 | 7 | 3 | 23 |
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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1985, 1984.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 19 | 5 / 392 | 0 |
| 1985 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 19 | 6 / 392 | 0 |
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.