Bert Blyleven Strikeouts

Bert Blyleven Career Strikeouts Overview

During Bert Blyleven's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 3701 strikeouts, an average of 168 strikeouts per season. 1973 was his best season with 258 strikeouts and his worst season was 1982 when he had 19 strikeouts. Bert Blyleven outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting Netherlands (1305.3333333333), Baby Boomers (417.74597156398), Y (2134.7777777778), mlb (347.409776226), and SP (475.04233750745) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts are outs recorded by the pitcher or team's pitchers when the player at bat accumulates 3 strikes before putting the ball in play, is walked, or hit by a pitch. Strikes are accumlated by swinging and missing a pitch, not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or by hitting a foul ball. Foul ball strkes however are not counted for a third strike unless the foul results from a bunt or is a foul tip third strike caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts, higher is better. (Source)

Bert Blyleven Lifetime Strikeouts and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Strikeouts for Bert Blyleven

	Bert Blyleven Strikeouts	Bert Blyleven Strikeouts Per 9 Innings	Bert Blyleven Strikeouts Per Game
Career	3701	6.7	5.35
Season Avg.	168	6.67	5.23
162 Game Avg.	364	6.7	5.35
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Bert Blyleven Strikeouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Bert Blyleven's yearly Strikeouts 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 Strikeouts by Year

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

Bert Blyleven Strikeouts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Bert Blyleven and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts 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 Strikeouts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Bert Blyleven Strikeouts 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.