Bert Blyleven Walks

Bert Blyleven Career Walks Overview

During Bert Blyleven's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1322 walks, an average of 60 walks per season. 1982 was his best season with 11 walks and his worst season was 1987 when he had 101 walks. Bert Blyleven underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating Netherlands (479.66666666667), Baby Boomers (248.96682464455), Y (1019.1666666667), mlb (210.21488652595), and SP (291.93291592129) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A walk is issued by a pitcher or a team's pitchers when four balls, pitches out of the strike zone which do not hit the batter and are not swung on, before the plate appearance ends. The batter is then given first base and the plate apperance is over. Generally, for Walks, lower is better. (Source)

Bert Blyleven Lifetime Walks and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Walks for Bert Blyleven

	Bert Blyleven Walks	Bert Blyleven Intentional Walks	Bert Blyleven Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings
Career	1322	71	2.39
Season Avg.	60	3	2.49
162 Game Avg.	130	7	2.39
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Bert Blyleven Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Bert Blyleven's yearly Walks 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.

Bert Blyleven Cumulative Walks by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Bert Blyleven's career Walks progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Bert Blyleven's career Walks at the end of that season.

Bert Blyleven Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Bert Blyleven and related player groups by summarizing Walks for each season played by Bert Blyleven. 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!

Bert Blyleven Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Bert Blyleven Walks 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 Bert Blyleven 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.