Frank Robinson

1956–1976 · 21 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1935

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1956ROY	Cincinnati Redlegs	NL	152	668	572	122	166	27	6	38	83	64	95	8	.290	.379	.558	.936	5.9
1957	Cincinnati Redlegs	NL	150	677	611	97	197	29	5	29	75	44	92	10	.322	.376	.529	.905	7.5
1958GG	Cincinnati Redlegs	NL	148	623	554	90	149	25	6	31	83	62	80	10	.269	.350	.504	.854	4.8
1959	Cincinnati Redlegs	NL	146	626	540	106	168	31	4	36	125	69	93	18	.311	.391	.583	.975	6.1
1960	Cincinnati Reds	NL	139	562	464	86	138	33	6	31	83	82	67	13	.297	.407	.595	1.002	6.8
1961MVP	Cincinnati Reds	NL	153	636	545	117	176	32	7	37	124	71	64	22	.323	.404	.611	1.015	7.0
1962	Cincinnati Reds	NL	162	701	609	134	208	51	2	39	136	76	62	18	.342	.421	.624	1.045	8.9
1963	Cincinnati Reds	NL	140	580	482	79	125	19	3	21	91	81	69	26	.259	.379	.442	.821	3.9
1964	Cincinnati Reds	NL	156	662	568	103	174	38	6	29	96	79	67	23	.306	.396	.548	.943	7.2
1965	Cincinnati Reds	NL	156	674	582	109	172	33	5	33	113	70	100	13	.296	.386	.540	.925	6.9
1966MVP	Baltimore Orioles	AL	155	680	576	122	182	34	2	49	122	87	90	8	.316	.410	.637	1.047	9.7
1967	Baltimore Orioles	AL	129	563	479	83	149	23	7	30	94	71	84	2	.311	.403	.576	.979	7.0
1968	Baltimore Orioles	AL	130	508	421	69	113	27	1	15	52	73	84	11	.268	.390	.444	.834	5.0
1969	Baltimore Orioles	AL	148	643	539	111	166	19	5	32	100	88	62	9	.308	.415	.540	.955	7.5
1970	Baltimore Orioles	AL	132	553	471	88	144	24	1	25	78	69	70	2	.306	.398	.520	.918	5.1
1971	Baltimore Orioles	AL	133	545	455	82	128	16	2	28	99	72	62	3	.281	.384	.510	.894	5.4
1972	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	103	405	342	41	86	6	1	19	59	55	76	2	.251	.353	.442	.795	2.8
1973	California Angels	AL	147	630	534	85	142	29	0	30	97	82	93	1	.266	.372	.489	.861	5.9
1974	California Angels	AL	144	579	477	81	117	27	3	22	68	85	95	5	.245	.367	.453	.820	4.6
1975	Cleveland Indians	AL	49	149	118	19	28	5	0	9	24	29	15	0	.237	.385	.508	.894	1.5
1976	Cleveland Indians	AL	36	79	67	5	15	0	0	3	10	11	12	0	.224	.329	.358	.687	0.3
Career	21 seasons		2808	11743	10006	1829	2943	528	72	586	1812	1420	1532	204	.294	.392	.537	.929	119.6

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 Gold Glove from 1957, 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: NL (National League), AL (American 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.