Bob Gibson Hits

Bob Gibson Career Hits Overview

During Bob Gibson's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 3279 hits, an average of 193 hits per season. 1959 was his best season with 77 hits and his worst season was 1970 when he had 262 hits. Bob Gibson is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (605.81482165958), The Silent Generation (756.0696969697), mlb (583.2185367402), SP (843.56231365534), and Y (3314.7638888889) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Hits allowed is the number of hits given up by a pitcher or team's pitchers over a defined time period. A hit allowed is attributed to a pitcher when the batter reaches or passes first without the benifit of a feilding error or fielders choice during an at bat. Generally, for Hits, lower is better. (Source)

Bob Gibson Lifetime Hits and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Hits for Bob Gibson

	Bob Gibson Hits	Bob Gibson Hits Allowed Per 9 Innings
Career	3279	7.6
Season Avg.	193	7.87
162 Game Avg.	422	7.6
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Bob Gibson Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Bob Gibson's yearly Hits 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 Hits by Year

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

Bob Gibson Hits By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Bob Gibson and related player groups by summarizing Hits 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 Hits Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Bob Gibson Hits 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.