Don Drysdale Strikeouts

Don Drysdale Career Strikeouts Overview

During Don Drysdale's 14-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 2486 strikeouts, an average of 178 strikeouts per season. 1963 was his best season with 251 strikeouts and his worst season was 1969 when he had 24 strikeouts. Don Drysdale outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (348.10090556274), The Silent Generation (478.06818181818), Y (2134.7777777778), mlb (347.409776226), and SP (475.04233750745) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts are outs recorded by the pitcher or team's pitchers when the player at bat accumulates 3 strikes before putting the ball in play, is walked, or hit by a pitch. Strikes are accumlated by swinging and missing a pitch, not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or by hitting a foul ball. Foul ball strkes however are not counted for a third strike unless the foul results from a bunt or is a foul tip third strike caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts, higher is better. (Source)

Don Drysdale Lifetime Strikeouts and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Strikeouts for Don Drysdale

	Don Drysdale Strikeouts	Don Drysdale Strikeouts Per 9 Innings	Don Drysdale Strikeouts Per Game
Career	2486	6.52	4.8
Season Avg.	178	6.25	4.59
162 Game Avg.	326	6.52	4.8
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Don Drysdale Strikeouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Don Drysdale's yearly Strikeouts 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 Strikeouts by Year

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

Don Drysdale Strikeouts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Don Drysdale and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts 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 Strikeouts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Don Drysdale Strikeouts 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.