Bob Gibson Starts

Bob Gibson Career Starts Overview

During Bob Gibson's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 482 starts, an average of 28 starts per season. 1964 was his best season with 36 starts and his worst season was 1959 when he had 9 starts. Bob Gibson outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (68.878580669008), The Silent Generation (89.987878787879), Y (437.61111111111), mlb (66.111093477226), and SP (113.75581395349) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The number of games a pitcher appeared as the first pitcher for thier team in a game. Generally, for Starts, higher is better. (Source)

Bob Gibson Lifetime Starts

Stats similar to Starts for Bob Gibson

	Bob Gibson Starts
Career	482
Season Avg.	28
162 Game Avg.	62
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Bob Gibson Starts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Bob Gibson's yearly Starts 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.

Bob Gibson Cumulative Starts by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Bob Gibson's career Starts progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Bob Gibson's career Starts at the end of that season.

Bob Gibson Starts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Bob Gibson and related player groups by summarizing Starts 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!

Bob Gibson Starts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Bob Gibson Starts 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.