Dennis Eckersley Intentional Walks

Dennis Eckersley Career Intentional Walks Overview

During Dennis Eckersley's 24-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 91 intentional walks, an average of 4 intentional walks per season. 1989 was his best season with 0 intentional walks and his worst season was 1977 when he had 11 intentional walks. Dennis Eckersley underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (12.084642395121), Baby Boomers (24.121327014218), Y (42.444444444444), mlb (12.111569592128), and SP (11.901013714967) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Intentional walks are walks issued by pitchers to avoid risking a strong hitter from having a damaging at bat. Historically a pitcher would need to throw 4 intentional balls which are pitches out of the strike zone, however newer rules removes this requirement and batters can be walked without the pitches using a signal to the upmire. Generally, for Intentional Walks, lower is better. (Source)

Dennis Eckersley Lifetime Intentional Walks

Stats similar to Intentional Walks for Dennis Eckersley

	Dennis Eckersley Intentional Walks
Career	91
Season Avg.	4
162 Game Avg.	6
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Dennis Eckersley Intentional Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Dennis Eckersley's yearly Intentional Walks 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.

Dennis Eckersley Cumulative Intentional Walks by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Dennis Eckersley's career Intentional Walks progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Dennis Eckersley's career Intentional Walks at the end of that season.

Dennis Eckersley Intentional Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Dennis Eckersley and related player groups by summarizing Intentional Walks for each season played by Dennis Eckersley. 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!

Dennis Eckersley Intentional Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Dennis Eckersley Intentional Walks 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 Dennis Eckersley 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.