Rickey Henderson

1979–2003 · 25 seasons · Bats right, throws left · Born 1958

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1979	Oakland Athletics	AL	89	398	351	49	96	13	3	1	26	34	39	33	.274	.338	.336	.675	1.1
1980	Oakland Athletics	AL	158	722	591	111	179	22	4	9	53	117	54	100	.303	.420	.399	.820	7.7
1981GGSS	Oakland Athletics	AL	108	493	423	89	135	18	7	6	35	64	68	56	.319	.408	.437	.845	6.7
1982	Oakland Athletics	AL	149	656	536	119	143	24	4	10	51	116	94	130	.267	.398	.382	.780	6.2
1983	Oakland Athletics	AL	145	622	513	105	150	25	7	9	48	103	80	108	.292	.414	.421	.835	7.4
1984	Oakland Athletics	AL	142	597	502	113	147	27	4	16	58	86	81	66	.293	.399	.458	.857	7.0
1985SS	New York Yankees	AL	143	654	547	146	172	28	5	24	72	99	65	80	.314	.419	.516	.934	11.1
1986	New York Yankees	AL	153	701	608	130	160	31	5	28	74	89	81	87	.263	.358	.469	.827	7.9
1987	New York Yankees	AL	95	440	358	78	104	17	3	17	37	80	52	41	.291	.423	.497	.920	5.4
1988	New York Yankees	AL	140	647	554	118	169	30	2	6	50	82	54	93	.305	.394	.399	.793	6.3
1989	Oakland Athletics	AL	150	674	541	113	148	26	3	12	57	126	68	77	.274	.411	.399	.810	6.7
1990MVPSS	Oakland Athletics	AL	136	594	489	119	159	33	3	28	61	97	60	65	.325	.439	.577	1.016	10.1
1991	Oakland Athletics	AL	134	578	470	105	126	17	1	18	57	98	73	58	.268	.400	.423	.823	5.1
1992	Oakland Athletics	AL	117	500	396	77	112	18	3	15	46	95	56	48	.283	.426	.457	.883	5.9
1993	Oakland Athletics	AL	134	610	481	114	139	22	2	21	59	120	65	53	.289	.432	.474	.906	6.3
1994	Oakland Athletics	AL	87	376	296	66	77	13	0	6	20	72	45	22	.260	.411	.365	.776	2.3
1995	Oakland Athletics	AL	112	487	407	67	122	31	1	9	54	72	66	32	.300	.407	.447	.855	3.2
1996	San Diego Padres	NL	148	602	465	110	112	17	2	9	29	125	90	37	.241	.410	.344	.754	1.4
1997	San Diego Padres	NL	120	509	403	84	100	14	0	8	34	97	85	45	.248	.400	.342	.742	2.6
1998	Oakland Athletics	AL	152	670	542	101	128	16	1	14	57	118	114	66	.236	.376	.347	.723	3.0
1999	New York Mets	NL	121	526	438	89	138	30	0	12	42	82	82	37	.315	.423	.466	.889	2.5
2000	Seattle Mariners	AL	123	519	420	75	98	14	2	4	32	88	75	36	.233	.368	.305	.673	0.0
2001	San Diego Padres	NL	123	465	379	70	86	17	3	8	42	81	84	25	.227	.366	.351	.717	0.6
2002	Boston Red Sox	AL	72	222	179	40	40	6	1	5	16	38	47	8	.223	.369	.352	.721	0.3
2003	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	30	84	72	7	15	1	0	2	5	11	16	3	.208	.321	.306	.627	-0.3
Career	25 seasons		3081	13346	10961	2295	3055	510	66	297	1115	2190	1694	1406	.279	.403	.419	.822	116.7

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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