Jimmy Anderson Batters Faced

Jimmy Anderson Career Batters Faced Overview

During Jimmy Anderson's 6-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 2587 batters faced, an average of 431 batters faced per season. 2001 was his best season with 922 batters faced and his worst season was 2004 when he had 70 batters faced. Jimmy Anderson is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by Gen X (2266.4234527687), Y (14857.652777778), SP (3599.0649970185), USA (2595.9271853631), and mlb (2506.629423901) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batters faced is the number of hitters that have a plate appearance against a pitcher or team's pitchers over a given period of time. Generally, for Batters Faced, higher is better. (Source)

Jimmy Anderson Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Jimmy Anderson

	Jimmy Anderson Batters Faced	Jimmy Anderson Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	2587	40.52
Season Avg.	431	40.57
162 Game Avg.	1442	40.52
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Jimmy Anderson Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Jimmy Anderson's yearly Batters Faced for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Jimmy Anderson Cumulative Batters Faced by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Jimmy Anderson's career Batters Faced progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Jimmy Anderson's career Batters Faced at the end of that season.

Jimmy Anderson Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Jimmy Anderson and related player groups by summarizing Batters Faced for each season played by Jimmy Anderson. 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!

Jimmy Anderson Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Jimmy Anderson Batters Faced 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Jimmy Anderson 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.