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Willie Horton played 18 major-league seasons (1963-1980) as a OF (1,190), 3B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 18 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 21 | DET | 15 | 43 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | .326 | .814 | 132 |
| 1964 | 22 | DET | 25 | 80 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 20 | .163 | .559 | 61 |
| 1965 | 23 | DET | 143 | 512 | 69 | 140 | 29 | 104 | 5 | 48 | 101 | .273 | .831 | 141 |
| 1966 | 24 | DET | 146 | 526 | 72 | 138 | 27 | 100 | 1 | 44 | 103 | .262 | .802 | 135 |
| 1967 | 25 | DET | 122 | 401 | 47 | 110 | 19 | 67 | 0 | 36 | 80 | .274 | .819 | 148 |
| 1968 | 26 | DET | 143 | 512 | 68 | 146 | 36 | 85 | 0 | 49 | 110 | .285 | .895 | 178 |
| 1969 | 27 | DET | 141 | 508 | 66 | 133 | 28 | 91 | 3 | 52 | 93 | .262 | .796 | 128 |
| 1970 | 28 | DET | 96 | 371 | 53 | 113 | 17 | 69 | 0 | 28 | 43 | .305 | .855 | 142 |
| 1971 | 29 | DET | 119 | 450 | 64 | 130 | 22 | 72 | 1 | 37 | 75 | .289 | .845 | 146 |
| 1972 | 30 | DET | 108 | 333 | 44 | 77 | 11 | 36 | 0 | 27 | 47 | .231 | .681 | 109 |
| 1973 | 31 | DET | 111 | 411 | 42 | 130 | 17 | 53 | 1 | 23 | 57 | .316 | .863 | 142 |
| 1974 | 32 | DET | 72 | 238 | 32 | 71 | 15 | 47 | 0 | 21 | 36 | .298 | .891 | 154 |
| 1975 | 33 | DET | 159 | 615 | 62 | 169 | 25 | 92 | 1 | 44 | 109 | .275 | .740 | 109 |
| 1976 | 34 | DET | 114 | 401 | 40 | 105 | 14 | 56 | 0 | 49 | 63 | .262 | .751 | 120 |
| 1977 | 35 | DET|TEX | 140 | 523 | 55 | 151 | 15 | 75 | 2 | 42 | 117 | .289 | .767 | 108 |
| 1978 | 36 | CLE|OAK|TOR | 115 | 393 | 38 | 99 | 11 | 60 | 3 | 28 | 69 | .252 | .692 | 94 |
| 1979 | 37 | SEA | 162 | 646 | 77 | 180 | 29 | 106 | 1 | 42 | 112 | .279 | .784 | 110 |
| 1980 | 38 | SEA | 97 | 335 | 32 | 74 | 8 | 36 | 0 | 39 | 70 | .221 | .635 | 75 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | OF | 9 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964 | OF | 23 | 21 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1965 | OF | 141 | 138 | 249 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| 1965 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1966 | OF | 137 | 133 | 233 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 1967 | OF | 110 | 108 | 165 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| 1968 | OF | 139 | 137 | 212 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| 1969 | OF | 136 | 135 | 272 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 1970 | OF | 96 | 96 | 154 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
| 1971 | OF | 118 | 117 | 176 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 1972 | OF | 98 | 93 | 131 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 1973 | OF | 107 | 106 | 160 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| 1974 | OF | 64 | 64 | 106 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977 | OF | 11 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 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.
Willie Horton won: TSN All-Star 1968 (AL), TSN All-Star 1975 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1979, 1973, 1968, 1966, 1965.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 8 | 24 / 280 | 0 |
| 1966 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 21 | 4 / 280 | 0 |
| 1968 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 4 | 102 / 280 | 0 |
| 1973 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 30 | 3 / 336 | 0 |
| 1979 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 24 | 3 / 392 | 0 |
Willie Horton ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #75 | left fielders | 1968 | 178 OPS+ |
| #83 | designated hitters | 1975 | 109 OPS+ |
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.