Rich Gossage Errors

Rich Gossage Career Errors Overview

During Rich Gossage's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 21 errors, an average of 0.95 errors per season. 1979 was his best season with 0 errors and his worst season was 1975 when he had 3 errors. Rich Gossage is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by RP (3.95471), USA (48.6987), Baby Boomers (44.1198), Y (228.282), and mlb (47.2191) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Errors are charged to defensive players when they make a mistake leading to a runner getting on base or a runner advancing further than they should not have given the circustances. Dropping a fly ball and errant throws are examples of errors since these are expected to be reasonably acheivable. Generally, for Errors, lower is better. (Source)

Rich Gossage Lifetime Errors

Stats similar to Errors for Rich Gossage

	Rich Gossage Errors
Career	21
Season Avg.	0.95
162 Game Avg.	3.4
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Rich Gossage Errors By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rich Gossage's yearly Errors 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.

Rich Gossage Cumulative Errors by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Rich Gossage's career Errors progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Rich Gossage's career Errors at the end of that season.

Rich Gossage Errors By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Rich Gossage and related player groups by summarizing Errors for each season played by Rich Gossage. 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!

Rich Gossage Errors Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Rich Gossage Errors 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 Rich Gossage 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.