How Matt Capps's Strikeouts Per 9 Innings Compares to Similar Players

Matt Capps posted a career Strikeouts Per 9 Innings of 6.53, near the relief pitcher average of 6.36 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best Strikeouts Per 9 Innings season came in 2009, posting 7.62, near the relief pitcher average of 7.43 that year. The lowest point came in 2011 at 4.66, well below the relief pitcher average of 7.69 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from 7.27 in 2010 to 4.66 in 2011 and 5.52 in 2012. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average tracked near league norms across 8 seasons.

Matt Capps Lifetime Strikeouts Per 9 Innings

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Matt Capps Strikeouts Per 9 Innings Per Season

Matt Capps's Strikeouts Per 9 Innings for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, RP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Matt Capps Strikeouts Per 9 Innings per season line chart

Matt Capps Strikeouts Per 9 Innings by Team

Matt Capps's career Strikeouts Per 9 Innings totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Matt Capps career Strikeouts Per 9 Innings by team bar chart

Matt Capps Strikeouts Per 9 Innings Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Matt Capps's career Strikeouts Per 9 Innings 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 Capps Strikeouts Per 9 Innings year-over-year waterfall chart

Matt Capps Strikeouts Per 9 Innings Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Matt Capps's seasonal Strikeouts Per 9 Innings 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 Capps Strikeouts Per 9 Innings distribution box chart versus comparable players

Matt Capps Strikeouts Per 9 Innings — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Matt Capps's MLB career with Strikeouts Per 9 Innings 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.
Matt Capps Strikeouts Per 9 Innings season-by-season breakdown table