Rich Gossage Career Strikeouts Per Game Overview

Rich Gossage's Strikeouts Per Game was 1.5 for his 22-year Major League Baseball career. 1976 was his best season when his Strikeouts Per Game was 4.35 and his worst season was 1991 when his Strikeouts Per Game was 0.64. Rich Gossage is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by RP (1.0728833431506), USA (1.8310759784481), Baby Boomers (1.7825101804642), Y (3.5735457380756), and mlb (1.8397048214166) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts per game is a metric that shows, on average, how many strikeouts a pitcher or team's pitchers throw per game. It's caluclated by dividing strikeouts by games played for a given period. Generally, for Strikeouts Per Game, higher is better. (Source)

Rich Gossage Lifetime Strikeouts Per Game

Stats similar to Strikeouts Per Game for Rich Gossage
Rich Gossage
Strikeouts Per Game
Career1.5
Season Avg.1.48
162 Game Avg.1.5
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Rich Gossage Strikeouts Per Game By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rich Gossage's yearly Strikeouts Per Game 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.
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Rich Gossage Strikeouts Per Game By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Rich Gossage's career Strikeouts Per Game changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Strikeouts Per Game Rich Gossage had at that season in his career.
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Rich Gossage Strikeouts Per Game By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Rich Gossage and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts Per Game 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!
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Rich Gossage Strikeouts Per Game Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Rich Gossage Strikeouts Per Game 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.
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