Cap Anson Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Cap Anson's 27-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 11331 plate appearances, an average of 420 plate appearances per season. 1892 was his best season with 630 plate appearances and his worst season was 1871 when he had 122 plate appearances. Cap Anson outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2449.99), Pre-Generational (2729.85), 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)

Cap Anson Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Cap Anson
Cap Anson
Plate Appearances
Career11331
Season Avg.420
162 Game Avg.727
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Cap Anson Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cap Anson'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.
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Cap Anson Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Cap Anson's career Plate Appearances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Cap Anson's career Plate Appearances at the end of that season.
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Cap Anson Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Cap Anson and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by Cap Anson. 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!
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Cap Anson Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Cap Anson 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 Cap Anson 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.
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