Loading players...
Steve Garvey played 19 major-league seasons (1969-1987) as a 1B (2,059), 3B (191), OF (10), 2B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 19 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 21 | LAN | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .667 | 94 |
| 1970 | 22 | LAN | 34 | 93 | 8 | 25 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 17 | .269 | .665 | 85 |
| 1971 | 23 | LAN | 81 | 225 | 27 | 51 | 7 | 26 | 1 | 21 | 33 | .227 | .673 | 96 |
| 1972 | 24 | LAN | 96 | 294 | 36 | 79 | 9 | 30 | 4 | 19 | 36 | .269 | .734 | 115 |
| 1973 | 25 | LAN | 114 | 349 | 37 | 106 | 8 | 50 | 0 | 11 | 42 | .304 | .766 | 118 |
| 1974 | 26 | LAN | 156 | 642 | 95 | 200 | 21 | 111 | 5 | 31 | 66 | .312 | .811 | 133 |
| 1975 | 27 | LAN | 160 | 659 | 85 | 210 | 18 | 95 | 11 | 33 | 66 | .319 | .827 | 136 |
| 1976 | 28 | LAN | 162 | 631 | 85 | 200 | 13 | 80 | 19 | 50 | 69 | .317 | .813 | 138 |
| 1977 | 29 | LAN | 162 | 646 | 91 | 192 | 33 | 115 | 9 | 38 | 90 | .297 | .834 | 128 |
| 1978 | 30 | LAN | 162 | 639 | 89 | 202 | 21 | 113 | 10 | 40 | 70 | .316 | .852 | 145 |
| 1979 | 31 | LAN | 162 | 648 | 92 | 204 | 28 | 110 | 3 | 37 | 59 | .315 | .848 | 137 |
| 1980 | 32 | LAN | 163 | 658 | 78 | 200 | 26 | 106 | 6 | 36 | 67 | .304 | .808 | 131 |
| 1981 | 33 | LAN | 110 | 431 | 63 | 122 | 10 | 64 | 3 | 25 | 49 | .283 | .732 | 114 |
| 1982 | 34 | LAN | 162 | 625 | 66 | 176 | 16 | 86 | 5 | 20 | 86 | .282 | .718 | 106 |
| 1983 | 35 | SDN | 100 | 388 | 76 | 114 | 14 | 59 | 4 | 29 | 39 | .294 | .802 | 129 |
| 1984 | 36 | SDN | 161 | 617 | 72 | 175 | 8 | 86 | 1 | 24 | 64 | .284 | .680 | 97 |
| 1985 | 37 | SDN | 162 | 654 | 80 | 184 | 17 | 81 | 0 | 35 | 67 | .281 | .748 | 115 |
| 1986 | 38 | SDN | 155 | 557 | 58 | 142 | 21 | 81 | 1 | 23 | 72 | .255 | .692 | 96 |
| 1987 | 39 | SDN | 27 | 76 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .211 | .507 | 39 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 3B | 27 | 22 | 23 | 59 | 5 | 4 |
| 1970 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971 | 3B | 79 | 60 | 53 | 161 | 14 | 11 |
| 1972 | 3B | 85 | 73 | 71 | 187 | 28 | 18 |
| 1972 | 1B | 3 | 3 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1973 | 1B | 76 | 72 | 718 | 26 | 5 | 58 |
| 1973 | OF | 10 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1974 | 1B | 156 | 156 | 1536 | 62 | 8 | 108 |
| 1975 | 1B | 160 | 160 | 1500 | 77 | 8 | 96 |
| 1976 | 1B | 162 | 162 | 1583 | 67 | 3 | 138 |
| 1977 | 1B | 160 | 160 | 1606 | 55 | 8 | 137 |
| 1978 | 1B | 161 | 162 | 1546 | 74 | 9 | 121 |
| 1979 | 1B | 162 | 162 | 1402 | 93 | 7 | 101 |
| 1980 | 1B | 162 | 162 | 1502 | 112 | 6 | 122 |
| 1981 | 1B | 110 | 110 | 1019 | 55 | 1 | 84 |
| 1982 | 1B | 158 | 156 | 1539 | 111 | 8 | 102 |
| 1983 | 1B | 100 | 100 | 888 | 49 | 6 | 69 |
| 1984 | 1B | 159 | 159 | 1232 | 87 | 0 | 117 |
| 1985 | 1B | 162 | 162 | 1442 | 92 | 5 | 138 |
| 1986 | 1B | 148 | 138 | 1160 | 53 | 7 | 94 |
| 1987 | 1B | 20 | 19 | 138 | 11 | 0 | 10 |
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.
Steve Garvey won: Gold Glove 1974 (NL), MVP 1974 (NL), TSN All-Star 1974 (NL), Gold Glove 1975 (NL), TSN All-Star 1975 (NL), Gold Glove 1976 (NL), Gold Glove 1977 (NL), TSN All-Star 1977 (NL), NLCS MVP 1978 (NL), TSN All-Star 1978 (NL), NLCS MVP 1984 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (9 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1984, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Most Valuable Player (winner) | NL | 1 | 270 / 336 | 13 |
| 1975 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 11 | 50 / 336 | 0 |
| 1976 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 6 | 51 / 336 | 0 |
| 1977 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 6 | 98 / 336 | 0 |
| 1978 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 2 | 194 / 336 | 0 |
| 1979 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 14 | 30 / 336 | 0 |
| 1980 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 6 | 131 / 336 | 0 |
| 1981 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 25 | 1 / 336 | 0 |
| 1984 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 20 | 5 / 336 | 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.