Bob Gibson Career Batters Faced Per 9 Innings Overview

Bob Gibson's Batters Faced Per 9 Innings was 37.23 for his 17-year Major League Baseball career. 1960 was his best season when his Batters Faced Per 9 Innings was 41.43 and his worst season was 1968 when his Batters Faced Per 9 Innings was 34.3. Bob Gibson is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (39.182737342721), The Silent Generation (38.973840528357), Y (37.200756816111), mlb (39.193144175888), and SP (38.998532514138) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batters faced per nine innings is a metric that shows, on average, how many batters a pitcher or team's pitchers face over a nine inning period. It's caluclated by dividing batters faced by innings pitched for a given period and then the result multiplied by nine. Generally, for Batters Faced Per 9 Innings, higher is better. (Source)

Bob Gibson Lifetime Batters Faced Per 9 Innings

Stats similar to Batters Faced Per 9 Innings for Bob Gibson
Bob Gibson
Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career37.23
Season Avg.37.68
162 Game Avg.37.23
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Bob Gibson Batters Faced Per 9 Innings By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Bob Gibson's yearly Batters Faced Per 9 Innings 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 Batters Faced Per 9 Innings By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Bob Gibson's career Batters Faced Per 9 Innings changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Batters Faced Per 9 Innings Bob Gibson had at that season in his career.
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Bob Gibson Batters Faced Per 9 Innings By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Bob Gibson and related player groups by summarizing Batters Faced Per 9 Innings 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 Batters Faced Per 9 Innings Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Bob Gibson Batters Faced Per 9 Innings 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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