Lefty Grove Strikeouts

Lefty Grove Career Strikeouts Overview

During Lefty Grove's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 593 strikeouts, an average of 35 strikeouts per season. 1934 was his best season with 13 strikeouts and his worst season was 1932 when he had 51 strikeouts. Lefty Grove is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (305.465), The Lost Generation (154.457), mlb (314.894), SP (121.538), and Y (769.398) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts (K) are outs recorded because the player at bat accumulates 3 strikes before putting the ball in play, is walked, or hit by a pitch. Strikes are accumlated by swinging and missing a pitch, not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or by hitting a foul ball. Foul ball strkes however are not counted for a third strike unless the foul results from a bunt or is a foul tip caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts, lower is better. (Source)

Lefty Grove Lifetime Strikeouts and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Strikeouts for Lefty Grove

	Lefty Grove Strikeouts	Lefty Grove Plate Appearance per Strikout
Career	593	2.66
Season Avg.	35	2.74
162 Game Avg.	155	2.66
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Lefty Grove Strikeouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lefty Grove's yearly Strikeouts 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 Strikeouts by Year

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

Lefty Grove Strikeouts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lefty Grove and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts 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 Strikeouts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lefty Grove Strikeouts 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.