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Walt Dropo played 13 major-league seasons (1949-1961) as a 1B (1,174), 3B (3). 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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 26 | BOS | 11 | 41 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | .146 | .400 | 9 |
| 1950 | 27 | BOS | 136 | 559 | 101 | 180 | 34 | 144 | 0 | 45 | 75 | .322 | .961 | 151 |
| 1951 | 28 | BOS | 99 | 360 | 37 | 86 | 11 | 57 | 0 | 38 | 52 | .239 | .681 | 88 |
| 1952 | 29 | BOS|DET | 152 | 591 | 69 | 163 | 29 | 97 | 2 | 37 | 85 | .276 | .800 | 128 |
| 1953 | 30 | DET | 152 | 606 | 61 | 150 | 13 | 96 | 2 | 29 | 69 | .248 | .660 | 83 |
| 1954 | 31 | DET | 107 | 320 | 27 | 90 | 4 | 44 | 0 | 24 | 41 | .281 | .703 | 99 |
| 1955 | 32 | CHA | 141 | 453 | 55 | 127 | 19 | 79 | 0 | 42 | 71 | .280 | .791 | 119 |
| 1956 | 33 | CHA | 125 | 361 | 42 | 96 | 8 | 52 | 1 | 37 | 51 | .266 | .708 | 92 |
| 1957 | 34 | CHA | 93 | 223 | 24 | 57 | 13 | 49 | 0 | 16 | 40 | .256 | .740 | 106 |
| 1958 | 35 | CHA | 28 | 52 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 11 | .192 | .598 | 69 |
| 1958 | 35 | CIN | 63 | 162 | 18 | 47 | 7 | 31 | 0 | 12 | 31 | .290 | .823 | 122 |
| 1959 | 36 | BAL | 62 | 151 | 17 | 42 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 12 | 20 | .278 | .786 | 120 |
| 1959 | 36 | CIN | 26 | 39 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | .103 | .410 | 14 |
| 1960 | 37 | BAL | 79 | 179 | 16 | 48 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 20 | 19 | .268 | .723 | 102 |
| 1961 | 38 | BAL | 14 | 27 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | .259 | .725 | 101 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 1B | 11 | 0 | 103 | 4 | 0 | 13 |
| 1950 | 1B | 134 | 0 | 1142 | 77 | 15 | 147 |
| 1951 | 1B | 93 | 0 | 878 | 63 | 12 | 91 |
| 1952 | 1B | 150 | 0 | 1324 | 99 | 14 | 135 |
| 1953 | 1B | 150 | 0 | 1260 | 127 | 14 | 121 |
| 1954 | 1B | 95 | 79 | 681 | 54 | 3 | 60 |
| 1955 | 1B | 140 | 120 | 1101 | 62 | 6 | 104 |
| 1956 | 1B | 117 | 91 | 855 | 50 | 6 | 95 |
| 1957 | 1B | 69 | 50 | 483 | 39 | 7 | 49 |
| 1958 | 1B | 59 | 49 | 398 | 35 | 0 | 39 |
| 1959 | 1B | 77 | 46 | 489 | 29 | 4 | 53 |
| 1959 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1960 | 1B | 67 | 56 | 397 | 27 | 3 | 50 |
| 1960 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1961 | 1B | 12 | 9 | 62 | 6 | 0 | 11 |
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.
Walt Dropo won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1950 (AL), Rookie of the Year 1950 (AL), TSN All-Star 1950 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1952, 1950.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 6 | 75 / 336 | 0 |
| 1950 | Rookie of the Year (winner) | AL | 1 | 15 / 24 | 15 |
| 1952 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 26 | 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.