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Tommy Helms played 14 major-league seasons (1964-1977) as a 2B (1,129), 3B (143), SS (74). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 23 | CIN | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1965 | 24 | CIN | 21 | 42 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 7 | .381 | .959 | 179 |
| 1966 | 25 | CIN | 138 | 542 | 72 | 154 | 9 | 49 | 3 | 24 | 31 | .284 | .695 | 99 |
| 1967 | 26 | CIN | 137 | 497 | 40 | 136 | 2 | 35 | 5 | 24 | 41 | .274 | .661 | 96 |
| 1968 | 27 | CIN | 127 | 507 | 35 | 146 | 2 | 47 | 5 | 12 | 27 | .288 | .668 | 107 |
| 1969 | 28 | CIN | 126 | 480 | 38 | 129 | 1 | 40 | 4 | 18 | 33 | .269 | .613 | 78 |
| 1970 | 29 | CIN | 150 | 575 | 42 | 136 | 1 | 45 | 2 | 21 | 33 | .237 | .543 | 51 |
| 1971 | 30 | CIN | 150 | 547 | 40 | 141 | 3 | 52 | 3 | 26 | 33 | .258 | .615 | 80 |
| 1972 | 31 | HOU | 139 | 518 | 45 | 134 | 5 | 60 | 4 | 24 | 27 | .259 | .637 | 87 |
| 1973 | 32 | HOU | 146 | 543 | 44 | 156 | 4 | 61 | 1 | 32 | 21 | .287 | .694 | 99 |
| 1974 | 33 | HOU | 137 | 452 | 32 | 126 | 5 | 50 | 5 | 23 | 27 | .279 | .675 | 95 |
| 1975 | 34 | HOU | 64 | 135 | 7 | 28 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 8 | .207 | .488 | 41 |
| 1976 | 35 | PIT | 62 | 87 | 10 | 24 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 5 | .276 | .741 | 118 |
| 1977 | 36 | BOS | 21 | 59 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4 | .271 | .684 | 87 |
| 1977 | 36 | PIT | 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | SS | 8 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 1 | 5 |
| 1965 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1966 | 3B | 113 | 113 | 110 | 208 | 13 | 16 |
| 1966 | 2B | 20 | 20 | 45 | 50 | 0 | 9 |
| 1967 | 2B | 88 | 86 | 185 | 224 | 9 | 50 |
| 1967 | SS | 46 | 44 | 79 | 123 | 12 | 25 |
| 1968 | 2B | 127 | 125 | 322 | 370 | 15 | 82 |
| 1968 | SS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1969 | 2B | 125 | 125 | 320 | 344 | 17 | 87 |
| 1969 | SS | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 1970 | 2B | 148 | 147 | 350 | 410 | 13 | 107 |
| 1970 | SS | 12 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971 | 2B | 149 | 146 | 395 | 468 | 9 | 130 |
| 1972 | 2B | 139 | 139 | 353 | 441 | 17 | 115 |
| 1973 | 2B | 145 | 145 | 325 | 438 | 9 | 104 |
| 1974 | 2B | 133 | 130 | 308 | 360 | 10 | 99 |
| 1975 | 2B | 42 | 27 | 58 | 109 | 2 | 19 |
| 1975 | 3B | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1975 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1976 | 3B | 22 | 10 | 8 | 27 | 3 | 4 |
| 1976 | 2B | 11 | 6 | 22 | 19 | 0 | 4 |
| 1976 | SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3B | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2B | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 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.
Tommy Helms won: Rookie of the Year 1966 (NL), TSN All-Star 1968 (NL), Gold Glove 1970 (NL), Gold Glove 1971 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1968, 1966.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Rookie of the Year (winner) | NL | 1 | 12 / 20 | 12 |
| 1968 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 26 | 1 / 280 | 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.