Bob Gibson Career WHIP Overview

Bob Gibson's WHIP was 1.188 for his 17-year Major League Baseball career. 1968 was his best season when his WHIP was 0.853 and his worst season was 1960 when his WHIP was 1.673. Bob Gibson is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (1.4430748912239), The Silent Generation (1.4040632814095), mlb (1.4393517854305), SP (1.4293379375862), and Y (1.2092873968723) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Walks and hits per innings pitched (WHIP) is a metric that shows how often, on average, hitters get on base per inning against a pitcher. It is calcuated by summing hits and walks for a give time period then dividing by the number of innings during that time period. Generally, for WHIP, lower is better. (Source)

Bob Gibson Lifetime WHIP

Stats similar to WHIP for Bob Gibson
Bob Gibson
WHIP
Career1.188
Season Avg.1.244
162 Game Avg.1.188
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Bob Gibson WHIP By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Bob Gibson's yearly WHIP 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 WHIP By Year Change

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

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

This table shows Bob Gibson WHIP 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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