Kirk Gibson Plate Appearances

Kirk Gibson Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Kirk Gibson's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 6656 plate appearances, an average of 392 plate appearances per season. 1985 was his best season with 670 plate appearances and his worst season was 1979 when he had 39 plate appearances. Kirk Gibson is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2449.99), Baby Boomers (2842.73), mlb (2441.64), LF (2585.58), and Y (8622.88) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

Kirk Gibson Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Kirk Gibson

	Kirk Gibson Plate Appearances
Career	6656
Season Avg.	392
162 Game Avg.	659
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Kirk Gibson Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Kirk Gibson's yearly Plate Appearances for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, LF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Kirk Gibson Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

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

Kirk Gibson Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Kirk Gibson and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by Kirk 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!

Kirk Gibson Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Kirk Gibson Plate Appearances 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, LF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Kirk 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.