Bob Gibson Career At Bats Overview

During Bob Gibson's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1328 at bats, an average of 78 at bats per season. 1969 was his best season with 118 at bats and his worst season was 1959 when he had 26 at bats. Bob Gibson is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (439.807), USA (2176.94), The Silent Generation (2417.71), Y (7565.9), and mlb (2174.26) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

At bats (AB) are a subset of plate appearances used to calculate other stats like slugging percent and batting average. Players are credited with an at bat when their plate appereance does not end as a walk, a hit by pitch, sac fly or bunt, awarded a base for catcher interfiernce or replaced before their plate appereance completes. Generally, for At Bats, higher is better. (Source)

Bob Gibson Lifetime At Bats

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Bob Gibson At Bats By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Bob Gibson's yearly At Bats 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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Bob Gibson Cumulative At Bats by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Bob Gibson's career At Bats progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Bob Gibson's career At Bats at the end of that season.
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Bob Gibson At Bats By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Bob Gibson and related player groups by summarizing At Bats for each season played by Bob Gibson. 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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Bob Gibson At Bats Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Bob Gibson At Bats 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 Bob Gibson 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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