Lefty Grove Batters Faced

Lefty Grove Career Batters Faced Overview

During Lefty Grove's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 16633 batters faced, an average of 978 batters faced per season. 1932 was his best season with 1207 batters faced and his worst season was 1934 when he had 506 batters faced. Lefty Grove outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2595.9271853631), The Lost Generation (2964.025), Y (14857.652777778), mlb (2506.629423901), and SP (3599.0649970185) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batters faced is the number of hitters that have a plate appearance against a pitcher or team's pitchers over a given period of time. Generally, for Batters Faced, higher is better. (Source)

Lefty Grove Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Lefty Grove

	Lefty Grove Batters Faced	Lefty Grove Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	16633	37.99
Season Avg.	978	38.27
162 Game Avg.	1836	37.99
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Lefty Grove Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lefty Grove's yearly Batters Faced for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Lefty Grove Cumulative Batters Faced by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Lefty Grove's career Batters Faced progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Lefty Grove's career Batters Faced at the end of that season.

Lefty Grove Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lefty Grove and related player groups by summarizing Batters Faced for each season played by Lefty Grove. 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!

Lefty Grove Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lefty Grove Batters Faced 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Lefty Grove 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.