Paul Molitor

1978–1998 · 21 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1956

Hall of Fame 2004
4× Silver Slugger

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1978	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	125	556	521	73	142	26	4	6	45	19	54	30	.273	.301	.372	.673	2.2
1979	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	140	645	584	88	188	27	16	9	62	48	48	33	.322	.372	.469	.842	6.0
1980	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	111	512	450	81	137	29	2	9	37	48	48	34	.304	.372	.438	.809	5.3
1981	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	64	284	251	45	67	11	0	2	19	25	29	10	.267	.341	.335	.675	1.1
1982	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	160	751	666	136	201	26	8	19	71	69	93	41	.302	.366	.450	.816	7.3
1983	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	152	682	608	95	164	28	6	15	47	59	74	41	.270	.333	.410	.743	4.6
1984	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	13	49	46	3	10	1	0	0	6	2	8	1	.217	.245	.239	.484	0.0
1985	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	140	642	576	93	171	28	3	10	48	54	80	21	.297	.356	.408	.764	4.0
1986	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	105	482	437	62	123	24	6	9	55	40	81	20	.281	.340	.426	.765	2.7
1987SS	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	118	542	465	114	164	41	5	16	75	69	67	45	.353	.438	.566	1.003	6.6
1988SS	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	154	690	609	115	190	34	6	13	60	71	54	41	.312	.384	.452	.836	6.6
1989	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	155	696	615	84	194	35	4	11	56	64	67	27	.315	.379	.439	.818	6.7
1990	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	103	458	418	64	119	27	6	12	45	37	51	18	.285	.343	.464	.807	4.0
1991	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	158	749	665	133	216	32	13	17	75	77	62	19	.325	.399	.489	.888	7.0
1992	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	158	700	609	89	195	36	7	12	89	73	66	31	.320	.389	.461	.851	6.0
1993SS	Toronto Blue Jays	AL	160	725	636	121	211	37	5	22	111	77	71	22	.332	.402	.509	.911	6.8
1994	Toronto Blue Jays	AL	115	515	454	86	155	30	4	14	75	55	48	20	.341	.410	.518	.927	4.7
1995	Toronto Blue Jays	AL	130	598	525	63	142	31	2	15	60	61	57	12	.270	.350	.423	.772	2.5
1996SS	Minnesota Twins	AL	161	728	660	99	225	41	8	9	113	56	72	18	.341	.390	.468	.858	4.1
1997	Minnesota Twins	AL	135	597	538	63	164	32	4	10	89	45	73	11	.305	.351	.435	.786	2.0
1998	Minnesota Twins	AL	126	559	502	75	141	29	5	4	69	45	41	9	.281	.335	.382	.718	0.8
Career	21 seasons		2683	12160	10835	1782	3319	605	114	234	1307	1094	1244	504	.306	.372	.448	.820	91.1

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).

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