Willie McCovey

1959–1980 · 22 seasons · Bats left, throws left · Born 1938

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1959ROY	San Francisco Giants	NL	52	219	192	32	68	9	5	13	38	22	35	2	.354	.429	.656	1.085	3.2
1960	San Francisco Giants	NL	101	307	260	37	62	15	3	13	51	45	53	1	.238	.349	.469	.818	1.4
1961	San Francisco Giants	NL	106	374	328	59	89	12	3	18	50	37	60	1	.271	.350	.491	.841	1.8
1962	San Francisco Giants	NL	91	261	229	41	67	6	1	20	54	29	35	3	.293	.368	.590	.957	2.5
1963	San Francisco Giants	NL	152	627	564	103	158	19	5	44	102	50	119	1	.280	.350	.566	.915	6.5
1964	San Francisco Giants	NL	130	434	364	55	80	14	1	18	54	61	73	2	.220	.336	.412	.748	1.0
1965	San Francisco Giants	NL	160	639	540	93	149	17	4	39	92	88	118	0	.276	.381	.539	.920	6.1
1966	San Francisco Giants	NL	150	588	502	85	148	26	6	36	96	76	100	2	.295	.391	.586	.977	6.7
1967	San Francisco Giants	NL	135	539	456	73	126	17	4	31	91	71	110	3	.276	.378	.535	.913	5.6
1968	San Francisco Giants	NL	148	608	523	81	153	16	4	36	105	72	71	4	.293	.378	.545	.923	7.9
1969MVP	San Francisco Giants	NL	149	623	491	101	157	26	2	45	126	121	66	0	.320	.453	.656	1.108	9.2
1970	San Francisco Giants	NL	152	638	495	98	143	39	2	39	126	137	75	0	.289	.444	.612	1.056	8.6
1971	San Francisco Giants	NL	105	402	329	45	91	13	0	18	70	64	57	0	.277	.396	.480	.876	3.1
1972	San Francisco Giants	NL	81	304	263	30	56	8	0	14	35	38	45	0	.213	.316	.403	.719	0.8
1973	San Francisco Giants	NL	130	495	383	52	102	14	3	29	75	105	78	1	.266	.420	.546	.966	4.9
1974	San Diego Padres	NL	128	442	344	53	87	19	1	22	63	96	76	1	.253	.416	.506	.922	4.3
1975	San Diego Padres	NL	122	475	413	43	104	17	0	23	68	57	80	1	.252	.345	.460	.805	2.5
1976	San Diego Padres	NL	82	251	226	20	46	9	0	7	36	24	43	0	.204	.283	.336	.619	-0.1
1977	San Francisco Giants	NL	141	548	478	54	134	21	0	28	86	67	106	3	.280	.367	.500	.867	2.6
1978	San Francisco Giants	NL	108	389	351	32	80	19	2	12	64	36	57	1	.228	.298	.396	.694	-0.1
1979	San Francisco Giants	NL	117	393	353	34	88	9	0	15	57	36	70	0	.249	.318	.402	.720	0.3
1980	San Francisco Giants	NL	48	130	113	8	23	8	0	1	16	13	23	0	.204	.285	.301	.586	-0.6
Career	22 seasons		2588	9686	8197	1229	2211	353	46	521	1555	1345	1550	26	.270	.377	.515	.892	78.0

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.

Any shaded cell or chip will explain itself. Point at one, or tab to it and it opens on focus, and it names the league, the season and the statistic in full. On a touchscreen, tap it once to open and once more to close.

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: 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.