Bob Gibson Career Sacrifice Fly Overview

During Bob Gibson's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 18 sacrifice fly, an average of 1 sacrifice fly per season. 1965 was his best season with 3 sacrifice fly and his worst season was 1959 when he had 0 sacrifice fly. Bob Gibson is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (11.3474), mlb (12.1148), SP (0.767361), Y (32.983), and The Silent Generation (18.6917) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice fly (SF) is a ball put into play in the outfield that is caught and results in an out for the hitter, however one or more runners on the bases are able to advance one or more bases after the ball is caught often because of hit placement. Generally, for Sacrifice Fly, higher is better. (Source)

Bob Gibson Lifetime Sacrifice Fly

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Bob Gibson Sacrifice Fly By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Bob Gibson's yearly Sacrifice Fly 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 Sacrifice Fly by Year

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

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

This table shows Bob Gibson Sacrifice Fly 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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