Ken Griffey Jr. Career Hit By Pitch Overview

During Ken Griffey Jr.'s 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 81 hit by pitch, an average of 4 hit by pitch per season. 2000 was his best season with 9 hit by pitch and his worst season was 1995 when he had 0 hit by pitch. Ken Griffey Jr. outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (16.8708), Gen X (25.0071), Y (55.5511), mlb (17.028), and CF (18.6149) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Hit by pitch (HBP) is the total number of times a player or player equipment exluding his bat, is hit by a non-strike pitch, made sufficient effort to avoid the pitch, and is awarded first base. It's measured over a given time period such as season or career. Generally, for Hit By Pitch, higher is better. (Source)

Ken Griffey Jr. Lifetime Hit By Pitch

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Ken Griffey Jr. Hit By Pitch By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Ken Griffey Jr.'s yearly Hit By Pitch 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.
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Ken Griffey Jr. Cumulative Hit By Pitch by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Ken Griffey Jr.'s career Hit By Pitch progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Ken Griffey Jr.'s career Hit By Pitch at the end of that season.
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Ken Griffey Jr. Hit By Pitch By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Ken Griffey Jr. and related player groups by summarizing Hit By Pitch 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!
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Ken Griffey Jr. Hit By Pitch Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Ken Griffey Jr. Hit By Pitch 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.
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