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Willie Upshaw played 10 major-league seasons (1978-1988) as a 1B (1,094), OF (67). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 10 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 21 | TOR | 95 | 224 | 26 | 53 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 21 | 35 | .237 | .602 | 70 |
| 1980 | 23 | TOR | 34 | 61 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 14 | .213 | .628 | 72 |
| 1981 | 24 | TOR | 61 | 111 | 15 | 19 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 11 | 16 | .171 | .576 | 66 |
| 1982 | 25 | TOR | 160 | 580 | 77 | 155 | 21 | 75 | 8 | 52 | 91 | .267 | .770 | 110 |
| 1983 | 26 | TOR | 160 | 579 | 99 | 177 | 27 | 104 | 10 | 61 | 98 | .306 | .887 | 142 |
| 1984 | 27 | TOR | 152 | 569 | 79 | 158 | 19 | 84 | 10 | 55 | 86 | .278 | .809 | 122 |
| 1985 | 28 | TOR | 148 | 501 | 79 | 138 | 15 | 65 | 8 | 48 | 71 | .275 | .789 | 115 |
| 1986 | 29 | TOR | 155 | 573 | 85 | 144 | 9 | 60 | 23 | 78 | 87 | .251 | .709 | 94 |
| 1987 | 30 | TOR | 150 | 512 | 68 | 125 | 15 | 58 | 10 | 58 | 78 | .244 | .715 | 89 |
| 1988 | 31 | CLE | 149 | 493 | 58 | 121 | 11 | 50 | 12 | 62 | 66 | .245 | .699 | 96 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | OF | 52 | 43 | 81 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 1978 | 1B | 10 | 5 | 50 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1980 | 1B | 14 | 4 | 51 | 7 | 1 | 11 |
| 1980 | OF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1B | 14 | 3 | 58 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 1981 | OF | 14 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1982 | 1B | 155 | 155 | 1438 | 101 | 17 | 123 |
| 1983 | 1B | 159 | 154 | 1294 | 117 | 21 | 131 |
| 1984 | 1B | 151 | 151 | 1246 | 103 | 14 | 133 |
| 1985 | 1B | 147 | 129 | 1157 | 104 | 10 | 111 |
| 1986 | 1B | 154 | 151 | 1314 | 131 | 12 | 118 |
| 1987 | 1B | 146 | 135 | 1169 | 127 | 9 | 114 |
| 1988 | 1B | 144 | 129 | 1162 | 102 | 12 | 93 |
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: 1984, 1983.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 11 | 41 / 392 | 0 |
| 1984 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 17 | 8 / 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.