Luis Garcia's Career Balks
About Balks
During Luis Garcia's 9-year Major League Baseball career, he had
1 balks, an average of 0.1111 balks per season. 2013 was his best season
with 0 balks and his worst season was 2015 when he had
1 balks. Luis Garcia outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting
D.R. (2.65493), Millenial (1.21743), Y (9.65672), mlb (2.27922), and RP (1.40317) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that
visualize this information in more detail.
A balk is an illegal move done by the pitcher immediatly before windup or during the pitching act. Most of these illegal moves involve a pitcher pretending to pitch when he has no intention of doing so, this would be done to try and trick a baserunner into leaving the base and becoming an easy out. Balks are only called when there are runners on base, when a pitcher has been assesed a balk all baserunners are awarded the next base, this includes runners on third who would then score a run since he was awareded home plate. The active batter is not given any bases and their plate apperance continues with no change to the count. Generally, for Balks, lower is better. (Source)
A balk is an illegal move done by the pitcher immediatly before windup or during the pitching act. Most of these illegal moves involve a pitcher pretending to pitch when he has no intention of doing so, this would be done to try and trick a baserunner into leaving the base and becoming an easy out. Balks are only called when there are runners on base, when a pitcher has been assesed a balk all baserunners are awarded the next base, this includes runners on third who would then score a run since he was awareded home plate. The active batter is not given any bases and their plate apperance continues with no change to the count. Generally, for Balks, lower is better. (Source)
Luis Garcia's Balks Per Season Line Chart
This line chart shows Luis Garcia's yearly Balks
for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison,
are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RP, and players from their
country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
Luis Garcia's Cumulative Balks by Season
This line chart attempts to show shows Luis Garcia's progression over their entire career.
Each year on the chart represents Luis Garcia's career total Balks at the end of that season.
Luis Garcia's Balks Per Season Box Chart
This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Luis Garcia and related player groups by summarizing Balks
for each season played by Luis Garcia. 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!
Luis Garcia's Season Balks Stats Table
This table shows Luis Garcia's Balks 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,
RP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each
group for each year of Luis Garcia's 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.
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.