Don Drysdale Hits

Don Drysdale Career Hits Overview

During Don Drysdale's 14-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 3084 hits, an average of 220 hits per season. 1969 was his best season with 71 hits and his worst season was 1963 when he had 287 hits. Don Drysdale is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (605.81482165958), The Silent Generation (756.0696969697), mlb (583.2185367402), SP (843.56231365534), and Y (3314.7638888889) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Hits allowed is the number of hits given up by a pitcher or team's pitchers over a defined time period. A hit allowed is attributed to a pitcher when the batter reaches or passes first without the benifit of a feilding error or fielders choice during an at bat. Generally, for Hits, lower is better. (Source)

Don Drysdale Lifetime Hits and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Hits for Don Drysdale

	Don Drysdale Hits	Don Drysdale Hits Allowed Per 9 Innings
Career	3084	8.09
Season Avg.	220	8.26
162 Game Avg.	405	8.09
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Don Drysdale Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Don Drysdale's yearly Hits 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.

Don Drysdale Cumulative Hits by Year

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

Don Drysdale Hits By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Don Drysdale and related player groups by summarizing Hits 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!

Don Drysdale Hits Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Don Drysdale Hits 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.