Steve Carlton Career Starts Overview

During Steve Carlton's 24-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 709 starts, an average of 30 starts per season. 1972 was his best season with 41 starts and his worst season was 1988 when he had 1 starts. Steve Carlton outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (68.878580669008), The Silent Generation (89.987878787879), Y (437.61111111111), mlb (66.111093477226), and SP (113.75581395349) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The number of games a pitcher appeared as the first pitcher for thier team in a game. Generally, for Starts, higher is better. (Source)

Steve Carlton Lifetime Starts

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Steve Carlton Starts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Steve Carlton's yearly Starts 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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Steve Carlton Cumulative Starts by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Steve Carlton's career Starts progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Steve Carlton's career Starts at the end of that season.
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Steve Carlton Starts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Steve Carlton and related player groups by summarizing Starts for each season played by Steve Carlton. 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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Steve Carlton Starts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Steve Carlton Starts 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 Steve Carlton 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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