Ken Griffey Jr. Career Putouts Overview

During Ken Griffey Jr.'s 21-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 5607 putouts, an average of 267 putouts per season. 1998 was his best season with 409 putouts and his worst season was 2009 when he had 13 putouts. Ken Griffey Jr. is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (1532.15), Gen X (1473.99), mlb (1481.83), CF (1368.4), and Y (6114.35) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Putouts are awarded to defensive players who meet one of several criteria when an out is recorded by their team. These criteria include tagging a runner out, catching a batted or thrown ball and tagging a base for an out, catching a fly ball, catching a third strike, or being the closest player to a runner called out for interference. Generally, for Putouts, higher is better. (Source)

Ken Griffey Jr. Lifetime Putouts

Stats similar to Putouts for Ken Griffey Jr.
Ken Griffey Jr.
Putouts
Career5607
Season Avg.267
162 Game Avg.381.01
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Ken Griffey Jr. Putouts By Year Line Chart

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

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

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

This table shows Ken Griffey Jr. Putouts 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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