Lance Parrish

1977–1995 · 19 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1956

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Hitting

Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1977	Detroit Tigers	AL	12	51	46	10	9	2	0	3	7	5	12	0	.196	.275	.435	.709	0.2
1978	Detroit Tigers	AL	85	304	288	37	63	11	3	14	41	11	71	0	.219	.254	.424	.678	1.2
1979	Detroit Tigers	AL	143	548	493	65	136	26	3	19	65	49	105	6	.276	.343	.456	.800	4.3
1980SS	Detroit Tigers	AL	144	592	553	79	158	34	6	24	82	31	109	6	.286	.325	.499	.825	5.1
1981	Detroit Tigers	AL	96	384	348	39	85	18	2	10	46	34	52	2	.244	.311	.394	.704	1.9
1982SS	Detroit Tigers	AL	133	529	486	75	138	19	2	32	87	40	99	3	.284	.338	.529	.867	5.8
1983GGSS	Detroit Tigers	AL	155	663	605	80	163	42	3	27	114	44	106	1	.269	.314	.483	.796	4.9
1984GGSS	Detroit Tigers	AL	147	629	578	75	137	16	2	33	98	41	120	2	.237	.287	.443	.730	3.3
1985GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	140	600	549	64	150	27	1	28	98	41	90	2	.273	.323	.479	.802	4.4
1986SS	Detroit Tigers	AL	91	374	327	53	84	6	1	22	62	38	83	0	.257	.340	.483	.824	3.3
1987	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	130	518	466	42	114	21	0	17	67	47	104	0	.245	.313	.399	.712	1.9
1988	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	123	478	424	44	91	17	2	15	60	47	93	0	.215	.293	.370	.663	2.2
1989	California Angels	AL	124	482	433	48	103	12	1	17	50	42	104	1	.238	.306	.388	.694	2.6
1990SS	California Angels	AL	133	523	470	54	126	14	0	24	70	46	107	2	.268	.338	.451	.789	4.9
1991	California Angels	AL	119	445	402	38	87	12	0	19	51	35	117	0	.216	.285	.388	.673	1.7
1992	Seattle Mariners	AL	93	304	275	26	64	13	1	12	32	24	70	1	.233	.294	.418	.712	1.1
1993	Cleveland Indians	AL	10	24	20	2	4	1	0	1	2	4	5	1	.200	.333	.400	.733	0.3
1994	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	40	147	126	10	34	5	0	3	16	18	28	1	.270	.363	.381	.744	0.6
1995	Toronto Blue Jays	AL	70	202	178	15	36	9	0	4	22	15	52	0	.202	.265	.320	.586	0.2
Career	19 seasons		1988	7797	7067	856	1782	305	27	324	1070	612	1527	28	.252	.315	.440	.755	49.7

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).

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