Tom Gordon Sacrifice Flies

Tom Gordon Career Sacrifice Flies Overview

During Tom Gordon's 21-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 69 sacrifice flies, an average of 3 sacrifice flies per season. 1988 was his best season with 0 sacrifice flies and his worst season was 1995 when he had 11 sacrifice flies. Tom Gordon underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (9.8055812234337), Gen X (16.982899022801), Y (31), mlb (10.147913029678), and RP (7.4686121479471) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice fly 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. A pitcher is charged with a sacrifice fly when it happens a plate appearance for which they are pitching. Generally, for Sacrifice Flies, lower is better. (Source)

Tom Gordon Lifetime Sacrifice Flies

Stats similar to Sacrifice Flies for Tom Gordon

	Tom Gordon Sacrifice Flies
Career	69
Season Avg.	3
162 Game Avg.	5
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Tom Gordon Sacrifice Flies By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Tom Gordon's yearly Sacrifice Flies 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 Sacrifice Flies by Year

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

Tom Gordon Sacrifice Flies By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Tom Gordon and related player groups by summarizing Sacrifice Flies 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 Sacrifice Flies Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Tom Gordon Sacrifice Flies 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.