Whitey Ford Career Double Plays Overview

During Whitey Ford's 16-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 49 double plays, an average of 3.06 double plays per season. 1956 was his best season with 6 double plays and his worst season was 1950 when he had 1 double plays. Whitey Ford is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (8.90115), USA (126.165), The Greatest Generation (235.011), Y (536.536), and mlb (129.291) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Double plays are events where two separate outs are recorded on a single play and is awarded to a player who either has a putout, assits, or both during the play. Generally, for Double Plays, higher is better. (Source)

Whitey Ford Lifetime Double Plays

Stats similar to Double Plays for Whitey Ford
Whitey Ford
Double Plays
Career49
Season Avg.3.06
162 Game Avg.15.94
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Whitey Ford Double Plays By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Whitey Ford's yearly Double Plays 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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Whitey Ford Cumulative Double Plays by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Whitey Ford's career Double Plays progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Whitey Ford's career Double Plays at the end of that season.
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Whitey Ford Double Plays By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Whitey Ford and related player groups by summarizing Double Plays for each season played by Whitey Ford. 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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Whitey Ford Double Plays Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Whitey Ford Double Plays 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 Whitey Ford 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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