Rich Gossage Putouts

Rich Gossage Career Putouts Overview

During Rich Gossage's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 78 putouts, an average of 3.55 putouts per season. 1976 was his best season with 18 putouts and his worst season was 1985 when he had 0 putouts. Rich Gossage is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by RP (19.4092), USA (1532.15), Baby Boomers (1594.41), Y (6114.35), and mlb (1481.83) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Putouts are awarded to defensive players who meet one of several criteria when an out is recorded by their team. These criteria include tagging a runner out, catching a batted or thrown ball and tagging a base for an out, catching a fly ball, catching a third strike, or being the closest player to a runner called out for interference. Generally, for Putouts, higher is better. (Source)

Rich Gossage Lifetime Putouts

Stats similar to Putouts for Rich Gossage

	Rich Gossage Putouts
Career	78
Season Avg.	3.55
162 Game Avg.	12.61
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Rich Gossage Putouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rich Gossage's yearly Putouts 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 Putouts by Year

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

Rich Gossage Putouts By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Rich Gossage Putouts 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.