Ken Griffey Jr. Career Played Outs Overview

During Ken Griffey Jr.'s 21-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 60981 played outs, an average of 2903.86 played outs per season. 1998 was his best season with 4052 played outs and his worst season was 2009 when he had 249 played outs. Ken Griffey Jr. outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (11084.6), Gen X (12093), Y (42738.4), mlb (11098.7), and CF (13627.2) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Played outs is the number outs that happen while a defensive player is on the field in a defensive position over a given time frame. For a team it's the number of defenisve outs recorded for a given time period. Generally, for Played Outs, higher is better. (Source)

Ken Griffey Jr. Lifetime Played Outs

Stats similar to Played Outs for Ken Griffey Jr.
Ken Griffey Jr.
Played Outs
Career60981
Season Avg.2903.86
162 Game Avg.4143.84
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Ken Griffey Jr. Played Outs By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Ken Griffey Jr.'s yearly Played Outs 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 Played Outs by Year

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Ken Griffey Jr. and related player groups by summarizing Played Outs 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. Played Outs Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Ken Griffey Jr. Played Outs 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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