Ty Cobb Stolen Bases

Ty Cobb Career Stolen Bases Overview

During Ty Cobb's 24-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 896 stolen bases, an average of 37 stolen bases per season. 1915 was his best season with 96 stolen bases and his worst season was 1905 when he had 2 stolen bases. Ty Cobb outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (44.453), The Lost Generation (54.0228), Y (203.08), mlb (44.2968), and CF (85.9511) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Stolen bases (SB) are the number of times a player or a team player safely advances one base they aren't entitled because of actions taken by the baserunner. This most frequently happens when a player decides to take the next base while the pitcher is pitching the ball. This is calculated over a given period of time. Generally, for Stolen Bases, higher is better. (Source)

Ty Cobb Lifetime Stolen Bases and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Stolen Bases for Ty Cobb

	Ty Cobb Stolen Bases	Ty Cobb Caught Stealing	Ty Cobb Stolen Base Attempts	Ty Cobb Stolen Base Percentage
Career	896	178	1074	83.43
Season Avg.	37	7	45	79.48
162 Game Avg.	48	10	57	83.43
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Ty Cobb Stolen Bases By Year Line Chart

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

Ty Cobb Cumulative Stolen Bases by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Ty Cobb's career Stolen Bases progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Ty Cobb's career Stolen Bases at the end of that season.

Ty Cobb Stolen Bases By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Ty Cobb and related player groups by summarizing Stolen Bases for each season played by Ty Cobb. 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!

Ty Cobb Stolen Bases Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Ty Cobb Stolen Bases 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, CF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Ty Cobb 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.