Rich Gossage Slugging Pct

Rich Gossage Career Slugging Pct Overview

Rich Gossage's Slugging Pct was 0.118 for his 22-year Major League Baseball career. 1977 was his best season when his Slugging Pct was 0.261 and his worst season was 1972 when his Slugging Pct was 0. Rich Gossage underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (0.364513), Baby Boomers (0.360734), Y (0.456361), mlb (0.365601), and RP (0.213147) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Slugging percentage (SLG) is a meaure of hitter prodution similar to that of the batting average, however it weights extra base hits higher than singles instead of weighting all hits the same. It is calculated by dividing total bases by batting average for a player or team over a given period. Generally, for Slugging Pct, higher is better. (Source)

Rich Gossage Lifetime Slugging Pct

Stats similar to Slugging Pct for Rich Gossage

	Rich Gossage Slugging Pct
Career	0.118
Season Avg.	0.02
162 Game Avg.	0.118
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Rich Gossage Slugging Pct By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rich Gossage's yearly Slugging Pct 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 Slugging Pct By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Rich Gossage's career Slugging Pct changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Slugging Pct Rich Gossage had at that season in his career.

Rich Gossage Slugging Pct By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Rich Gossage Slugging Pct 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.