Bert Blyleven Career Sacrifice Flies Overview

During Bert Blyleven's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 121 sacrifice flies, an average of 6 sacrifice flies per season. 1970 was his best season with 2 sacrifice flies and his worst season was 1973 when he had 13 sacrifice flies. Bert Blyleven underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating Netherlands (43.333333333333), Baby Boomers (22.107109004739), Y (31), mlb (10.147913029678), and SP (12.502087060227) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice fly is a ball put into play in the outfield that is caught and results in an out for the hitter, however one or more runners on the bases are able to advance one or more bases after the ball is caught often because of hit placement. A pitcher is charged with a sacrifice fly when it happens a plate appearance for which they are pitching. Generally, for Sacrifice Flies, lower is better. (Source)

Bert Blyleven Lifetime Sacrifice Flies

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Bert Blyleven Sacrifice Flies By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Bert Blyleven's yearly Sacrifice Flies 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.
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Bert Blyleven Cumulative Sacrifice Flies by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Bert Blyleven's career Sacrifice Flies progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Bert Blyleven's career Sacrifice Flies at the end of that season.
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Bert Blyleven Sacrifice Flies By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Bert Blyleven Sacrifice Flies 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.
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