Rick Dempsey Career Walks Per Strikeout Overview

Rick Dempsey's Walks Per Strikeout was 0.8 for his 24-year Major League Baseball career. 1992 was his best season when his Walks Per Strikeout was 2 and his worst season was 1969 when his Walks Per Strikeout was 0. Rick Dempsey is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by Baby Boomers (0.6189), mlb (0.709533), C (0.684105), Y (1.47874), and USA (0.750854) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The walks per strikeout ratio (BB/K) is a metric that measures a player or teams plate discipline by showing how often players walk compared to how often they strikeout. It is calculated by dividing walks by strikeouts for a given period of time. Generally, for Walks Per Strikeout, higher is better. (Source)

Rick Dempsey Lifetime Walks Per Strikeout

Stats similar to Walks Per Strikeout for Rick Dempsey
Rick Dempsey
Walks Per Strikeout
Career0.8
Season Avg.0.88
162 Game Avg.0.8
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Rick Dempsey Walks Per Strikeout By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rick Dempsey's yearly Walks Per Strikeout 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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Rick Dempsey Walks Per Strikeout By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Rick Dempsey's career Walks Per Strikeout changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Walks Per Strikeout Rick Dempsey had at that season in his career.
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Rick Dempsey Walks Per Strikeout By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Rick Dempsey and related player groups by summarizing Walks Per Strikeout for each season played by Rick Dempsey. 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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Rick Dempsey Walks Per Strikeout Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Rick Dempsey Walks Per Strikeout 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 Rick Dempsey 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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