Fred Lynn

1974–1990 · 17 seasons · Bats left, throws left · 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
1974	Boston Red Sox	AL	15	51	43	5	18	2	2	2	10	6	6	0	.419	.490	.698	1.188	0.9
1975MVPROYGG	Boston Red Sox	AL	145	605	528	103	175	47	7	21	105	62	90	10	.331	.401	.566	.967	8.8
1976	Boston Red Sox	AL	132	566	507	76	159	32	8	10	65	48	67	14	.314	.367	.467	.835	6.1
1977	Boston Red Sox	AL	129	564	497	81	129	29	5	18	76	51	63	2	.260	.327	.447	.774	2.8
1978GG	Boston Red Sox	AL	150	627	541	75	161	33	3	22	82	75	50	3	.298	.380	.492	.872	6.1
1979GG	Boston Red Sox	AL	147	622	531	116	177	42	1	39	122	82	79	2	.333	.423	.637	1.059	9.8
1980GG	Boston Red Sox	AL	110	478	415	67	125	32	3	12	61	58	39	12	.301	.383	.480	.862	5.2
1981	California Angels	AL	76	302	256	28	56	8	1	5	31	38	42	1	.219	.322	.316	.639	0.7
1982	California Angels	AL	138	545	472	89	141	38	1	21	86	58	72	7	.299	.374	.517	.891	5.2
1983	California Angels	AL	117	500	437	56	119	20	3	22	74	55	83	2	.272	.352	.483	.835	3.5
1984	California Angels	AL	142	600	517	84	140	28	4	23	79	77	97	2	.271	.366	.474	.840	4.6
1985	Baltimore Orioles	AL	124	508	448	59	118	12	1	23	68	53	100	7	.263	.339	.449	.787	3.6
1986	Baltimore Orioles	AL	112	456	397	67	114	13	1	23	67	53	59	2	.287	.371	.499	.869	3.9
1987	Baltimore Orioles	AL	111	438	396	49	100	24	0	23	60	39	72	3	.253	.320	.487	.807	1.9
1988	Baltimore Orioles	AL	114	432	391	46	96	14	1	25	56	33	82	2	.246	.302	.478	.780	3.1
1989	Detroit Tigers	AL	117	406	353	44	85	11	1	11	46	47	71	1	.241	.328	.371	.699	1.0
1990	San Diego Padres	NL	90	223	196	18	47	3	1	6	23	22	44	2	.240	.315	.357	.672	-0.1
Career	17 seasons		1969	7923	6925	1063	1960	388	43	306	1111	857	1116	72	.283	.364	.484	.848	67.1

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.