Ken Griffey Jr. Career Base Runs Overview

During Ken Griffey Jr.'s 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1979.91 base runs, an average of 90.08 base runs per season. 1997 was his best season with 147.86 base runs and his worst season was 2010 when he had 4.58 base runs. Ken Griffey Jr. outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (305.439), Gen X (356.954), Y (1362.19), mlb (303.226), and CF (353.463) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Base runs (BR) is a metric devised to try and estimate the number of runs a player or team should have created given their component offensive statistics. Generally, for Base Runs, higher is better. (Source)

Ken Griffey Jr. Lifetime Base Runs

Stats similar to Base Runs for Ken Griffey Jr.
Ken Griffey Jr.
Base Runs
Career1979.91
Season Avg.90.08
162 Game Avg.120.08
More InfoSee More

Ken Griffey Jr. Base Runs By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Ken Griffey Jr.'s yearly Base Runs for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, CF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
placeholder for chart

Ken Griffey Jr. Cumulative Base Runs by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Ken Griffey Jr.'s career Base Runs progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Ken Griffey Jr.'s career Base Runs at the end of that season.
placeholder for chart

Ken Griffey Jr. Base Runs By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Ken Griffey Jr. and related player groups by summarizing Base Runs for each season played by Ken Griffey Jr.. 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!
placeholder for chart

Ken Griffey Jr. Base Runs Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Ken Griffey Jr. Base Runs 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, CF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Ken Griffey Jr. 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.
placeholder for chart