Steve Carlton Hits

Steve Carlton Career Hits Overview

During Steve Carlton's 24-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 4672 hits, an average of 195 hits per season. 1988 was his best season with 20 hits and his worst season was 1973 when he had 293 hits. Steve Carlton underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (605.81482165958), The Silent Generation (756.0696969697), Y (3314.7638888889), mlb (583.2185367402), and SP (843.56231365534) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Hits allowed is the number of hits given up by a pitcher or team's pitchers over a defined time period. A hit allowed is attributed to a pitcher when the batter reaches or passes first without the benifit of a feilding error or fielders choice during an at bat. Generally, for Hits, lower is better. (Source)

Steve Carlton Lifetime Hits and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Hits for Steve Carlton

	Steve Carlton Hits	Steve Carlton Hits Allowed Per 9 Innings
Career	4672	8.06
Season Avg.	195	8.67
162 Game Avg.	429	8.06
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Steve Carlton Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Steve Carlton's yearly Hits 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.

Steve Carlton Cumulative Hits by Year

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

Steve Carlton Hits By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Steve Carlton and related player groups by summarizing Hits 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!

Steve Carlton Hits Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Steve Carlton Hits 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.