Rod Carew Walks

Rod Carew Career Walks Overview

During Rod Carew's 19-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1018 walks, an average of 54 walks per season. 1978 was his best season with 78 walks and his worst season was 1970 when he had 11 walks. Rod Carew outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting Panama (192.3), The Silent Generation (239.884), Y (870.83), mlb (211.057), and 1B (289.876) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Walks or base on balls (BB) is the total number of times a player is awarded first base because the pitcher issued 4 balls before the player puts the ball is put in play, is hit by a pitch, or strikes out. This is measure over a given time period, for example season or career. Generally, for Walks, higher is better. (Source)

Rod Carew Lifetime Walks and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Walks for Rod Carew

	Rod Carew Walks	Rod Carew Intentional Walks	Rod Carew Walks Per Strikeout
Career	1018	144	0.99
Season Avg.	54	8	1.06
162 Game Avg.	67	9	0.99
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Rod Carew Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rod Carew's yearly Walks for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Rod Carew Cumulative Walks by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Rod Carew's career Walks progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Rod Carew's career Walks at the end of that season.

Rod Carew Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Rod Carew and related player groups by summarizing Walks for each season played by Rod Carew. 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!

Rod Carew Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Rod Carew Walks 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Rod Carew 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.