How Cole Hamels's Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings Compares to Similar Players

Cole Hamels posted a career Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings of 2.56, below the starting pitcher average of 3.1 — production that kept him consistently ahead of most peers. His strongest Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings season came in 2011, posting 1.83, well below the starting pitcher average of 2.87 that year. The highest point came in 2019 at 3.56, above the starting pitcher average of 2.97 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from 3.22 in 2017 to 3.07 in 2018 and 3.56 in 2019. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained above league norms across 14 seasons.

Cole Hamels Lifetime Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings

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Cole Hamels Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings Per Season

Cole Hamels's Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Cole Hamels Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings per season line chart

Cole Hamels Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings by Team

Cole Hamels's career Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Cole Hamels career Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings by team bar chart

Cole Hamels Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Cole Hamels's career Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Cole Hamels Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings year-over-year waterfall chart

Cole Hamels Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Cole Hamels's seasonal Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Cole Hamels Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings distribution box chart versus comparable players

Cole Hamels Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Cole Hamels's MLB career with Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Cole Hamels Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings season-by-season breakdown table