Cole Hamels ERA

Cole Hamels Career ERA Overview

Cole Hamels's ERA was 3.43 for his 15-year Major League Baseball career. 2014 was his best season when his ERA was 2.46 and his worst season was 2020 when his ERA was 8.1. Cole Hamels is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by Y (3.0750522047158), USA (4.3461226399548), Millenial (4.4765613485252), mlb (4.3614031148122), and SP (4.3392668544321) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Earned run average (ERA) is a metric that shows how many earned runs on average, a pitcher or team's pitcher, gives up over the course of nine innings. It is calculated by dividing earned runs by innings pitched then multiplying the result by 9. Generally, for ERA, lower is better. (Source)

Cole Hamels Lifetime ERA and Similar Stats

Stats similar to ERA for Cole Hamels

	Cole Hamels ERA	Cole Hamels Component ERA	Cole Hamels Defense Independent ERA
Career	3.43	3.32	3.56
Season Avg.	3.78	3.32	3.54
162 Game Avg.	3.43	3.32	3.56
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Cole Hamels ERA By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cole Hamels's yearly ERA 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.

Cole Hamels ERA By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Cole Hamels's career ERA changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career ERA Cole Hamels had at that season in his career.

Cole Hamels ERA By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Cole Hamels and related player groups by summarizing ERA for each season played by Cole Hamels. 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!

Cole Hamels ERA Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Cole Hamels ERA 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 Cole Hamels 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.