Ken Griffey Jr. Intentional Walks

Ken Griffey Jr. Career Intentional Walks Overview

During Ken Griffey Jr.'s 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 246 intentional walks, an average of 11 intentional walks per season. 1993 was his best season with 25 intentional walks and his worst season was 2010 when he had 0 intentional walks. Ken Griffey Jr. outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (11.8855), Gen X (18.9582), Y (53.733), mlb (12.4524), and CF (10.5359) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Intentional walks (IBB) are walks issued to hitters to avoid risking a strong hitter from having a damaging at bat. Historically a pitcher would need to throw 4 intentional balls, however newer rules removes this requirement and batters can be walked without the pitches using a signal to the upmire. Generally, for Intentional Walks, higher is better. (Source)

Ken Griffey Jr. Lifetime Intentional Walks

Stats similar to Intentional Walks for Ken Griffey Jr.

	Ken Griffey Jr. Intentional Walks
Career	246
Season Avg.	11
162 Game Avg.	15
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Ken Griffey Jr. Intentional Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Ken Griffey Jr.'s yearly Intentional Walks 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.

Ken Griffey Jr. Cumulative Intentional Walks by Year

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

Ken Griffey Jr. Intentional Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Ken Griffey Jr. and related player groups by summarizing Intentional Walks 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!

Ken Griffey Jr. Intentional Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Ken Griffey Jr. Intentional Walks 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.