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Steve Kemp played 11 major-league seasons (1977-1988) as a OF (1,004), 1B (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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 23 | DET | 151 | 552 | 75 | 142 | 18 | 88 | 3 | 71 | 93 | .257 | .765 | 108 |
| 1978 | 24 | DET | 159 | 582 | 75 | 161 | 15 | 79 | 2 | 97 | 87 | .277 | .778 | 120 |
| 1979 | 25 | DET | 134 | 490 | 88 | 156 | 26 | 105 | 5 | 68 | 70 | .318 | .941 | 152 |
| 1980 | 26 | DET | 135 | 508 | 88 | 149 | 21 | 101 | 5 | 69 | 64 | .293 | .851 | 132 |
| 1981 | 27 | DET | 105 | 372 | 52 | 103 | 9 | 49 | 9 | 70 | 48 | .277 | .809 | 134 |
| 1982 | 28 | CHA | 160 | 580 | 91 | 166 | 19 | 98 | 7 | 89 | 83 | .286 | .808 | 122 |
| 1983 | 29 | NYA | 109 | 373 | 53 | 90 | 12 | 49 | 1 | 41 | 37 | .241 | .718 | 97 |
| 1984 | 30 | NYA | 94 | 313 | 37 | 91 | 7 | 41 | 4 | 40 | 54 | .291 | .771 | 114 |
| 1985 | 31 | PIT | 92 | 236 | 19 | 59 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 25 | 54 | .250 | .664 | 92 |
| 1986 | 32 | PIT | 13 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | .188 | .725 | 108 |
| 1988 | 34 | TEX | 16 | 36 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | .222 | .479 | 36 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | OF | 148 | 147 | 252 | 10 | 5 | 1 |
| 1978 | OF | 157 | 156 | 325 | 11 | 8 | 2 |
| 1979 | OF | 120 | 117 | 229 | 12 | 6 | 2 |
| 1980 | OF | 85 | 84 | 197 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 1981 | OF | 92 | 92 | 207 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | OF | 154 | 154 | 280 | 6 | 7 | 1 |
| 1983 | OF | 101 | 92 | 215 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| 1984 | OF | 75 | 70 | 138 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1985 | OF | 63 | 61 | 105 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | OF | 4 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | OF | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1981, 1979.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 17 | 15 / 392 | 0 |
| 1981 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 23 | 3 / 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.