Nellie Fox Sacrifice Hit

Nellie Fox Career Sacrifice Hit Overview

During Nellie Fox's 19-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 208 sacrifice hit, an average of 11 sacrifice hit per season. 1951 was his best season with 20 sacrifice hit and his worst season was 1947 when he had 0 sacrifice hit. Nellie Fox outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (28.8765), The Greatest Generation (29.038), Y (97.6136), mlb (27.1854), and 2B (37.9842) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice hit (SH), often referred to a sacrifice bunt, is a ball put into play in the infield allowing a runner on the bases to advance one or more bases but results in the hitter being called out at or before first base. This is often an done intentionally to move runners forward with a weaker hitter at the plate, for example a pitcher. Generally, for Sacrifice Hit, higher is better. (Source)

Nellie Fox Lifetime Sacrifice Hit and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Sacrifice Hit for Nellie Fox

	Nellie Fox Sacrifice Hit	Nellie Fox Sacrifice Fly
Career	208	48
Season Avg.	11	3
162 Game Avg.	14	3
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Nellie Fox Sacrifice Hit By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Nellie Fox's yearly Sacrifice Hit for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 2B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Nellie Fox Cumulative Sacrifice Hit by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Nellie Fox's career Sacrifice Hit progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Nellie Fox's career Sacrifice Hit at the end of that season.

Nellie Fox Sacrifice Hit By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Nellie Fox and related player groups by summarizing Sacrifice Hit for each season played by Nellie Fox. 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!

Nellie Fox Sacrifice Hit Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Nellie Fox Sacrifice Hit 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, 2B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Nellie Fox 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.