Don Drysdale Career Starts Overview

During Don Drysdale's 14-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 465 starts, an average of 33 starts per season. 1963 was his best season with 42 starts and his worst season was 1956 when he had 12 starts. Don Drysdale is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (68.878580669008), The Silent Generation (89.987878787879), mlb (66.111093477226), SP (113.75581395349), and Y (437.61111111111) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The number of games a pitcher appeared as the first pitcher for thier team in a game. Generally, for Starts, higher is better. (Source)

Don Drysdale Lifetime Starts

Stats similar to Starts for Don Drysdale
Don Drysdale
Starts
Career465
Season Avg.33
162 Game Avg.61
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Don Drysdale Starts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Don Drysdale's yearly Starts 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.
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Don Drysdale Cumulative Starts by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Don Drysdale's career Starts progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Don Drysdale's career Starts at the end of that season.
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Don Drysdale Starts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Don Drysdale and related player groups by summarizing Starts for each season played by Don Drysdale. 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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Don Drysdale Starts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Don Drysdale Starts 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 Don Drysdale 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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