How Bob Bowman's Games Started % Compares to Similar Players

Bob Bowman posted a career Games Started % of 68.82, well above the league average of .644 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Games Started % season came in 1957, posting 79.01, well above the league average of .784 that year. The lowest point came in 1955 at 50.0, well above the league average of .805 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from 79.01 in 1957 to 63.16 in 1958 and 52.0 in 1959. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well above league norms across 5 seasons.

Bob Bowman Lifetime Games Started %

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Bob Bowman Games Started % Per Season

Bob Bowman's Games Started % for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, RF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Bob Bowman Games Started % per season line chart

Bob Bowman Games Started % by Team

Bob Bowman's career Games Started % totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Bob Bowman career Games Started % by team bar chart

Bob Bowman Games Started % Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Bob Bowman's career Games Started % shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Bob Bowman Games Started % year-over-year waterfall chart

Bob Bowman Games Started % Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Bob Bowman's seasonal Games Started % alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Bob Bowman Games Started % distribution box chart versus comparable players

Bob Bowman Games Started % — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Bob Bowman's MLB career with Games Started % alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Bob Bowman Games Started % season-by-season breakdown table