Pittsburgh Pirates

145 seasons · 1882–2026 · 10,977–10,981 (.500) · 9 pennants · 5 World Series

Season by season

145 seasons, newest first. The year links to that season across all of baseball.

Year	Lg	Div	W	L	W–L%	Finish	R	RA	Result
2026	NL	—	67	71	.486	—	—	—
2025	NL	C	71	91	.438	5th	583	645
2024	NL	C	76	86	.469	5th	665	739
2023	NL	C	76	86	.469	4th	692	790
2022	NL	C	62	100	.383	5th	591	817
2021	NL	C	61	101	.377	5th	609	833
2020	NL	C	19	41	.317	5th	219	298
2019	NL	C	69	93	.426	5th	758	911
2018	NL	C	82	79	.509	4th	692	693
2017	NL	C	75	87	.463	4th	668	731
2016	NL	C	78	83	.484	3rd	729	758
2015	NL	C	98	64	.605	2nd	697	596	Wild card
2014	NL	C	88	74	.543	2nd	682	631	Wild card
2013	NL	C	94	68	.580	2nd	634	577	Wild card
2012	NL	C	79	83	.488	4th	651	674
2011	NL	C	72	90	.444	4th	610	712
2010	NL	C	57	105	.352	6th	587	866
2009	NL	C	62	99	.385	6th	636	768
2008	NL	C	67	95	.414	6th	735	884
2007	NL	C	68	94	.420	6th	724	846
2006	NL	C	67	95	.414	5th	691	797
2005	NL	C	67	95	.414	6th	680	769
2004	NL	C	72	89	.447	5th	680	744
2003	NL	C	75	87	.463	4th	753	801
2002	NL	C	72	89	.447	4th	641	730
2001	NL	C	62	100	.383	6th	657	858
2000	NL	C	69	93	.426	5th	793	888
1999	NL	C	78	83	.484	3rd	775	782
1998	NL	C	69	93	.426	6th	650	718
1997	NL	C	79	83	.488	2nd	725	760
1996	NL	C	73	89	.451	5th	776	833
1995	NL	C	58	86	.403	5th	629	736
1994	NL	C	53	61	.465	3rd	466	580
1993	NL	E	75	87	.463	5th	707	806
1992	NL	E	96	66	.593	1st	693	595	Division
1991	NL	E	98	64	.605	1st	768	632	Division
1990	NL	E	95	67	.586	1st	733	619	Division
1989	NL	E	74	88	.457	5th	637	680
1988	NL	E	85	75	.531	2nd	651	616
1987	NL	E	80	82	.494	4th	723	744
1986	NL	E	64	98	.395	6th	663	700
1985	NL	E	57	104	.354	6th	568	708
1984	NL	E	75	87	.463	6th	615	567
1983	NL	E	84	78	.519	2nd	659	648
1982	NL	E	84	78	.519	4th	724	696
1981	NL	E	46	56	.451	4th	407	425
1980	NL	E	83	79	.512	3rd	666	646
1979	NL	E	98	64	.605	1st	775	643	World Series
1978	NL	E	88	73	.547	2nd	684	637
1977	NL	E	96	66	.593	2nd	734	665
1976	NL	E	92	70	.568	2nd	708	630
1975	NL	E	92	69	.571	1st	712	565	Division
1974	NL	E	88	74	.543	1st	751	657	Division
1973	NL	E	80	82	.494	3rd	704	693
1972	NL	E	96	59	.619	1st	691	512	Division
1971	NL	E	97	65	.599	1st	788	599	World Series
1970	NL	E	89	73	.549	1st	729	664	Division
1969	NL	E	88	74	.543	3rd	725	652
1968	NL	—	80	82	.494	6th	583	532
1967	NL	—	81	81	.500	6th	679	693
1966	NL	—	92	70	.568	3rd	759	641
1965	NL	—	90	72	.556	3rd	675	580
1964	NL	—	80	82	.494	6th	663	636
1963	NL	—	74	88	.457	8th	567	595
1962	NL	—	93	68	.578	4th	706	626
1961	NL	—	75	79	.487	6th	694	675
1960	NL	—	95	59	.617	1st	734	593	World Series
1959	NL	—	78	76	.506	4th	651	680
1958	NL	—	84	70	.545	2nd	662	607
1957	NL	—	62	92	.403	7th	586	696
1956	NL	—	66	88	.429	7th	588	653
1955	NL	—	60	94	.390	8th	560	767
1954	NL	—	53	101	.344	8th	557	845
1953	NL	—	50	104	.325	8th	622	887
1952	NL	—	42	112	.273	8th	515	793
1951	NL	—	64	90	.416	7th	689	845
1950	NL	—	57	96	.373	8th	681	857
1949	NL	—	71	83	.461	6th	681	760
1948	NL	—	83	71	.539	4th	706	699
1947	NL	—	62	92	.403	7th	744	817
1946	NL	—	63	91	.409	7th	552	668
1945	NL	—	82	72	.532	4th	753	686
1944	NL	—	90	63	.588	2nd	744	662
1943	NL	—	80	74	.519	4th	669	605
1942	NL	—	66	81	.449	5th	585	631
1941	NL	—	81	73	.526	4th	690	643
1940	NL	—	78	76	.506	4th	809	783
1939	NL	—	68	85	.444	6th	666	721
1938	NL	—	86	64	.573	2nd	707	630
1937	NL	—	86	68	.558	3rd	704	646
1936	NL	—	84	70	.545	4th	804	718
1935	NL	—	86	67	.562	4th	743	647
1934	NL	—	74	76	.493	5th	735	713
1933	NL	—	87	67	.565	2nd	667	619
1932	NL	—	86	68	.558	2nd	701	711
1931	NL	—	75	79	.487	5th	636	691
1930	NL	—	80	74	.519	5th	891	928
1929	NL	—	88	65	.575	2nd	904	780
1928	NL	—	85	67	.559	4th	837	704
1927	NL	—	94	60	.610	1st	817	659	Pennant
1926	NL	—	84	69	.549	3rd	769	689
1925	NL	—	95	58	.621	1st	912	715	World Series
1924	NL	—	90	63	.588	3rd	724	588
1923	NL	—	87	67	.565	3rd	786	696
1922	NL	—	85	69	.552	3rd	865	736
1921	NL	—	90	63	.588	2nd	692	595
1920	NL	—	79	75	.513	4th	530	552
1919	NL	—	71	68	.511	4th	472	466
1918	NL	—	65	60	.520	4th	466	412
1917	NL	—	51	103	.331	8th	464	595
1916	NL	—	65	89	.422	6th	484	586
1915	NL	—	73	81	.474	5th	557	520
1914	NL	—	69	85	.448	7th	503	540
1913	NL	—	78	71	.523	4th	673	585
1912	NL	—	93	58	.616	2nd	751	565
1911	NL	—	85	69	.552	3rd	744	557
1910	NL	—	86	67	.562	3rd	655	576
1909	NL	—	110	42	.724	1st	699	447	World Series
1908	NL	—	98	56	.636	2nd	585	468
1907	NL	—	91	63	.591	2nd	634	510
1906	NL	—	93	60	.608	3rd	623	470
1905	NL	—	96	57	.627	2nd	692	570
1904	NL	—	87	66	.569	4th	675	592
1903	NL	—	91	49	.650	1st	793	613	Pennant
1902	NL	—	103	36	.741	1st	775	440	Pennant
1901	NL	—	90	49	.647	1st	776	534	Pennant
1900	NL	—	79	60	.568	2nd	733	612
1899	NL	—	76	73	.510	7th	841	771
1898	NL	—	72	76	.486	8th	634	694
1897	NL	—	60	71	.458	8th	676	835
1896	NL	—	66	63	.512	6th	787	741
1895	NL	—	71	61	.538	7th	815	799
1894	NL	—	65	65	.500	7th	965	981
1893	NL	—	81	48	.628	2nd	970	766
1892	NL	—	80	73	.523	6th	802	796
1891	NL	—	55	80	.407	8th	679	744
1890	NL	—	23	113	.169	8th	597	1235
1889	NL	—	61	71	.462	5th	726	801
1888	NL	—	66	68	.493	6th	534	580
1887	NL	—	55	69	.444	6th	621	750
1886	AA	—	80	57	.584	2nd	810	647
1885	AA	—	56	55	.505	3rd	547	539
1884	AA	—	30	78	.278	11th	406	725
1883	AA	—	31	67	.316	7th	525	728
1882	AA	—	39	39	.500	4th	426	417

A dash is a value the source has not published — the season still being played has no final run totals. An empty result column means the club did not win any of those things that year, except in 1994, when a strike ended the season before the postseason, and in a season still under way — then there was nothing to win.

Career leaders with this club

Top 20 by wins above replacement accumulated with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the same for pitchers. Seasons where a player was mostly somewhere else are not counted here.

Batting20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	PA	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Honus Wagner	1900–1917	149.4	2,433	10,220	2,967	82	1,475	.328
Max Carey	1910–1926	87.0	2,205	9,767	2,442	67	726	.287
Roberto Clemente	1955–1972	77.4	2,433	10,212	3,000	240	1,305	.317
Paul Waner	1926–1940	76.2	2,154	9,532	2,868	109	1,177	.340
Arky Vaughan	1932–1941	69.5	1,411	6,181	1,709	84	764	.324
Fred Clarke	1900–1915	66.7	1,479	6,368	1,638	33	622	.299
Willie Stargell	1962–1982	65.7	2,360	9,026	2,232	475	1,540	.282
Andrew McCutchen	2009–2025	56.0	1,713	7,366	1,781	248	875	.281
Tommy Leach	1900–1918	53.7	1,546	6,536	1,574	43	607	.271
Pie Traynor	1920–1937	51.3	1,941	8,293	2,416	58	1,273	.320
Ralph Kiner	1946–1952	50.6	1,054	4,557	1,057	294	772	.281
Lloyd Waner	1927–1945	40.3	1,781	7,754	2,311	27	574	.319
Barry Bonds	1986–1992	40.3	1,010	4,255	984	176	556	.275
Bill Mazeroski	1956–1972	37.4	2,163	8,379	2,016	138	853	.260
Jason Kendall	1996–2004	35.6	1,252	5,282	1,409	67	471	.306
Ginger Beaumont	1899–1906	33.7	989	4,452	1,292	31	421	.321
Andy Van Slyke	1987–1994	33.6	1,057	4,432	1,108	117	564	.283
Al Oliver	1968–1977	33.5	1,302	5,424	1,490	135	717	.296
Dave Parker	1973–1983	33.4	1,301	5,267	1,479	166	758	.305
Bob Elliott	1939–1946	30.7	1,047	4,398	1,142	50	633	.292

Pitching20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	W	L	SV	IP	SO	ERA
Babe Adams	1907–1926	60.2	481	194	139	15	2991.3	1,036	2.74
Ed Morris	1885–1889	56.3	241	129	102	1	2104.0	890	2.81
Bob Friend	1951–1965	54.9	568	191	218	10	3480.3	1,682	3.55
Wilbur Cooper	1912–1924	54.2	469	202	159	14	3199.0	1,191	2.74
Deacon Phillippe	1900–1911	52.3	330	168	92	11	2286.0	861	2.50
Sam Leever	1898–1910	49.6	388	194	100	13	2660.7	847	2.47
Pud Galvin	1886–1892	48.1	247	128	109	0	2088.3	434	3.09
Frank Killen	1893–1898	40.4	230	118	91	0	1789.7	510	3.94
Jesse Tannehill	1897–1902	37.2	192	116	58	5	1508.0	466	2.75
Bob Veale	1962–1972	34.2	347	118	91	8	1876.7	1,662	3.05
Howie Camnitz	1904–1913	29.1	286	119	87	14	1803.3	827	2.66
Vern Law	1950–1967	28.1	483	162	147	13	2672.0	1,092	3.77
John Candelaria	1975–1993	26.8	308	122	83	7	1818.7	1,112	3.16
Rick Rhoden	1979–1986	24.0	215	79	73	1	1448.0	852	3.51
Pink Hawley	1895–1897	24.0	145	71	61	1	1133.7	367	3.76
Ray Kremer	1924–1933	22.9	308	143	85	10	1954.7	516	3.76
Dock Ellis	1968–1975	22.6	228	96	80	0	1423.0	868	3.16
Red Ehret	1892–1894	22.5	124	53	59	0	977.0	273	3.79
Lefty Leifield	1905–1911	21.3	233	108	82	7	1554.3	538	2.35
Lee Meadows	1923–1929	21.2	191	89	55	2	1268.0	365	3.66

Best single seasons

The highest wins above replacement any Pittsburgh Pirates player has put up in one year.

BattingHR · RBI · AVG

1	Honus Wagner1908 · 10 HR · 109 RBI · .354	14.1
2	Honus Wagner1905 · 6 HR · 101 RBI · .363	13.6
3	Honus Wagner1909 · 5 HR · 100 RBI · .339	11.7
4	Honus Wagner1907 · 6 HR · 82 RBI · .350	11.7
5	Honus Wagner1906 · 2 HR · 71 RBI · .339	11.6
6	Honus Wagner1904 · 4 HR · 75 RBI · .349	11.1
7	Ralph Kiner1947 · 51 HR · 127 RBI · .313	10.4
8	Honus Wagner1903 · 5 HR · 101 RBI · .355	10.2
9	Barry Bonds1992 · 34 HR · 103 RBI · .311	9.6
10	Kiki Cuyler1925 · 18 HR · 102 RBI · .357	9.4

PitchingW · SO · ERA

1	Ed Morris1885 · 39 W · 298 SO · 2.35	17.1
2	Ed Morris1886 · 41 W · 326 SO · 2.45	16.5
3	Ed Morris1888 · 29 W · 135 SO · 2.31	11.7
4	Harry Salisbury1882 · 20 W · 135 SO · 2.63	10.8
5	Pud Galvin1887 · 28 W · 76 SO · 3.29	10.7
6	Harry Staley1889 · 21 W · 159 SO · 3.51	10.5
7	Pud Galvin1888 · 23 W · 107 SO · 2.63	10.4
8	Pink Hawley1895 · 31 W · 142 SO · 3.18	10.3
9	Silver King1891 · 14 W · 160 SO · 3.11	10.3
10	Frank Killen1896 · 30 W · 134 SO · 3.41	10.1

Names this club has played under

Name	Years	Seasons
Pittsburg Alleghenys	1882–1890	9
Pittsburgh Pirates	1891–2026	136

How this page is built

Every row below is the club's own season, 1882 to 2026. That is 145 of them, 10,977–10,981 in all, a winning percentage of .500. 5 World Series — 1909, 1925, 1960, 1971, 1979.

Wins and losses on this page come straight from the source; the player tables do not. A season line in this database carries one club, the one where the player took the most plate appearances — or, for a pitcher, recorded the most outs — that year. So a player traded in July is credited to one side of the trade and not the other, and the career totals below are the club he mostly played for rather than a strict split. Wins above replacement is worked out per season here, and a season cannot be cut in half without recomputing it on a different basis, which would leave two numbers on this site that disagree. One basis, stated, is the honest version of that trade-off.

This club has played under 2 names. It began as the Pittsburg Alleghenys in 1882 and is the Pittsburgh Pirates now. The names, and the years each one covers, are listed further down. Relocations and renamings are kept together because the franchise is the thing that continued, which is also how the record books treat it.

What the columns mean, and where the franchise begins

Finishing position means a different thing before and after divisions arrived in 1969. Also: why the club's history starts in 1882 here, and what the run columns are for.

The franchise boundary is the source database's, not ours. Each season carries a franchise identifier, and that identifier is what groups the rows on this page. It merges moves and renamings — Brooklyn and Los Angeles are one club under it — and it also keeps some things apart that share a city and a nickname: the National Association clubs of 1871 to 1875 are separate franchises from the National League clubs that followed them in the same towns. We could have merged those by hand, and then this page would carry a career record that no published source agrees with. Following the identifier means the totals here can be checked against somebody else's.

The best and worst of it: 1909 and 1890. The 1909 club went 110–42 (.724) and won the World Series; the 1890 club went 23–113 (.169). Schedules were not always the same length — a nineteenth-century season could be seventy games and 2020 was sixty — so read the percentage rather than the win column when the two are far apart in time.

Finishing position means different things in different eras. Before 1969 there were no divisions, so the finish column is the club's place in the whole league. From 1969 it is the place within a division, which is a smaller field, and a third place in a six-team division is not the same achievement as a third place in a ten-team league. The division column says which one applies. Nothing on this page is postseason record: the wins and losses are regular season only, and the World Series, pennant and division marks in the result column say what the club went on to win, not how it did once it got there.

Runs scored and runs allowed are here because they explain the record. A club that wins more games than its run difference suggests has usually won a lot of close ones, and that tends not to repeat. The two columns are the cheapest way to see whether a season was as good as its win total, and they are the input to most of the modern estimates of how many games a team should have won. They are blank for the season still being played where the source has not published them yet.

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). This page groups the source database's team seasons by its franchise identifier and adds up the Pittsburgh Pirates careers of the players on the season pages. — 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.