Darrell Porter

1971–1987 · 17 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1952

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1971	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	22	80	70	4	15	2	0	2	9	9	20	2	.214	.300	.329	.629	0.5
1972	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	18	63	56	2	7	1	0	1	2	5	21	0	.125	.210	.196	.406	-0.3
1973	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	117	416	350	50	89	19	2	16	67	57	85	5	.254	.363	.457	.820	4.2
1974	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	131	490	432	59	104	15	4	12	56	50	88	8	.241	.326	.377	.703	2.7
1975	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	130	511	409	66	95	12	5	18	60	89	77	2	.232	.371	.418	.789	4.6
1976	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	119	449	389	43	81	14	1	5	32	51	61	2	.208	.298	.288	.586	0.9
1977	Kansas City Royals	AL	130	486	425	61	117	21	3	16	60	53	70	1	.275	.353	.452	.804	3.5
1978	Kansas City Royals	AL	150	602	520	77	138	27	6	18	78	75	75	0	.265	.358	.444	.802	4.7
1979	Kansas City Royals	AL	157	679	533	101	155	23	10	20	112	121	65	3	.291	.421	.484	.905	7.4
1980	Kansas City Royals	AL	118	495	418	51	104	14	2	7	51	69	50	1	.249	.354	.342	.696	2.1
1981	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	61	217	174	22	39	10	2	6	31	39	32	1	.224	.364	.408	.772	1.8
1982	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	120	445	373	46	86	18	5	12	48	66	66	1	.231	.347	.402	.749	3.2
1983	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	145	519	443	57	116	24	3	15	66	68	94	1	.262	.363	.431	.794	4.2
1984	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	127	493	422	56	98	16	3	11	68	60	79	5	.232	.331	.363	.693	2.3
1985	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	84	284	240	30	53	12	2	10	36	41	48	6	.221	.335	.413	.747	1.8
1986	Texas Rangers	AL	68	178	155	21	41	6	0	12	29	22	51	1	.265	.360	.535	.895	1.8
1987	Texas Rangers	AL	85	163	130	19	31	3	0	7	21	30	43	0	.238	.387	.423	.810	0.9
Career	17 seasons		1782	6570	5539	765	1369	237	48	188	826	905	1025	39	.247	.357	.409	.766	46.3

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League), NL (National League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.