Gary Carter Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Gary Carter's 19-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 9019 plate appearances, an average of 475 plate appearances per season. 1984 was his best season with 669 plate appearances and his worst season was 1974 when he had 29 plate appearances. Gary Carter is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2449.99), Baby Boomers (2842.73), mlb (2441.64), C (1818.64), and Y (8622.88) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

Gary Carter Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Gary Carter
Gary Carter
Plate Appearances
Career9019
Season Avg.475
162 Game Avg.636
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Gary Carter Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Gary Carter's yearly Plate Appearances for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, C, 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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Gary Carter Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Gary Carter's career Plate Appearances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Gary Carter's career Plate Appearances at the end of that season.
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Gary Carter Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Gary Carter and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by Gary Carter. 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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Gary Carter Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Gary Carter Plate Appearances 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, C, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Gary Carter 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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