How Matt Cain's Games Started % Compares to Similar Players
Matt Cain posted a career Games Started % of 96.78, well above the starting pitcher average of .674 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Games Started % season came in 2005, posting 100.0, well above the starting pitcher average of .755 that year. The lowest point came in 2016 at 80.95, well above the starting pitcher average of .725 that year. The Games Started % trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from 84.62 in 2015 to 80.95 in 2016 and 85.19 in 2017. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. One of the more consistent Games Started % producers of his era, the career line shows well-above-average output with little season-to-season variance across 13 seasons.
Matt Cain Lifetime Games Started %
Stats similar to Games Started % for Matt Cain
| Matt Cain
Games Started % |
|---|
| Career | 96.78 |
| Season Avg. | 96.78 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 96.78 |
| More Info | See More |
Matt Cain Games Started % Per Season
Matt Cain'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, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Matt Cain Games Started % by Team
Matt Cain's career Games Started % totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Matt Cain Games Started % Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Matt Cain'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.
Matt Cain Games Started % Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Matt Cain'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.
Matt Cain Games Started % — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Matt Cain'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.
