Lou Gehrig Plate Appearances

Lou Gehrig Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Lou Gehrig's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 9660 plate appearances, an average of 568 plate appearances per season. 1931 was his best season with 738 plate appearances and his worst season was 1924 when he had 13 plate appearances. Lou Gehrig outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2449.99), The Greatest Generation (2300.48), Y (8622.88), mlb (2441.64), and 1B (3044.61) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

Lou Gehrig Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Lou Gehrig

	Lou Gehrig Plate Appearances
Career	9660
Season Avg.	568
162 Game Avg.	723
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Lou Gehrig Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lou Gehrig's yearly Plate Appearances for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Lou Gehrig Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Lou Gehrig's career Plate Appearances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Lou Gehrig's career Plate Appearances at the end of that season.

Lou Gehrig Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lou Gehrig and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by Lou Gehrig. 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!

Lou Gehrig Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lou Gehrig Plate Appearances 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Lou Gehrig 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.