Tom Alston Plate Appearances

Tom Alston Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Tom Alston's 4-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 299 plate appearances, an average of 75 plate appearances per season. 1954 was his best season with 271 plate appearances and his worst season was 1956 when he had 2 plate appearances. Tom Alston underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (2449.99), The Greatest Generation (2300.48), Y (8622.88), mlb (2441.64), and 1B (3044.61) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

Tom Alston Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Tom Alston

	Tom Alston Plate Appearances
Career	299
Season Avg.	75
162 Game Avg.	532
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Tom Alston Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Tom Alston's yearly Plate Appearances for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Tom Alston Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Tom Alston's career Plate Appearances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Tom Alston's career Plate Appearances at the end of that season.

Tom Alston Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Tom Alston and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by Tom Alston. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!

Tom Alston Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Tom Alston Plate Appearances stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Tom Alston career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.