Josh Donaldson Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Josh Donaldson's 12-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 5667 plate appearances, an average of 472 plate appearances per season. 2015 was his best season with 711 plate appearances and his worst season was 2010 when he had 34 plate appearances. Josh Donaldson is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2449.99), Millenial (1845.15), mlb (2441.64), 3B (2552.65), 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)

Josh Donaldson Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Josh Donaldson
Josh Donaldson
Plate Appearances
Career5667
Season Avg.472
162 Game Avg.689
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Josh Donaldson Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Josh Donaldson'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, 3B, 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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Josh Donaldson Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

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

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

This table shows Josh Donaldson 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, 3B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Josh Donaldson 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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