Tom Gordon Batters Faced

Tom Gordon Career Batters Faced Overview

During Tom Gordon's 21-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 9058 batters faced, an average of 431 batters faced per season. 1996 was his best season with 998 batters faced and his worst season was 2009 when he had 10 batters faced. Tom Gordon is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2595.9271853631), Gen X (2266.4234527687), mlb (2506.629423901), RP (1263.3213437394), and Y (14857.652777778) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batters faced is the number of hitters that have a plate appearance against a pitcher or team's pitchers over a given period of time. Generally, for Batters Faced, higher is better. (Source)

Tom Gordon Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Tom Gordon

	Tom Gordon Batters Faced	Tom Gordon Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	9058	38.67
Season Avg.	431	39.26
162 Game Avg.	692	38.67
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Tom Gordon Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

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

Tom Gordon Cumulative Batters Faced by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Tom Gordon's career Batters Faced progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Tom Gordon's career Batters Faced at the end of that season.

Tom Gordon Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Tom Gordon and related player groups by summarizing Batters Faced for each season played by Tom Gordon. 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!

Tom Gordon Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Tom Gordon Batters Faced 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, RP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Tom Gordon 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.