Rich Gossage Career ERA Overview
Rich Gossage's ERA was 3.01 for his 22-year Major League Baseball career.
1981 was his best season when his ERA was 0.77 and his worst season was 1973
when his ERA was 7.43. Rich Gossage is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or
being beat by USA (4.3461226399548), Baby Boomers (4.2264623233034), mlb (4.3614031148122), RP (4.3865965377218), and Y (3.0750522047158) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that
visualize this information in more detail.
Earned run average (ERA) is a metric that shows how many earned runs on average, a pitcher or team's pitcher, gives up over the course of nine innings. It is calculated by dividing earned runs by innings pitched then multiplying the result by 9. Generally, for ERA, lower is better. (
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Rich Gossage Lifetime ERA and Similar Stats
Stats similar to ERA for Rich Gossage
| Rich GossageERA | Rich GossageComponent ERA | Rich GossageDefense Independent ERA |
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Career | 3.01 | 2.98 | 3.49 |
Season Avg. | 3.19 | 3.26 | 3.64 |
162 Game Avg. | 3.01 | 2.98 | 3.49 |
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Rich Gossage ERA By Year Line Chart
This line chart shows Rich Gossage's yearly ERA
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 ERA By Year Change
This waterfall chart attempts to show how Rich Gossage's career ERA changed per season.
This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career ERA Rich Gossage
had at that season in his career.
Rich Gossage ERA By Year Box Chart
This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Rich Gossage and related player groups by summarizing ERA
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 ERA Per Season Stats Table
This table shows Rich Gossage ERA 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.