How J. J. Hardy's Games Started % Compares to Similar Players

J. J. Hardy posted a career Games Started % of 97.8, well above the league average of .679 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Games Started % season came in 2011, posting 100.0, well above the league average of .714 that year. The lowest point came in 2005 at 87.39, well above the league average of .718 that year. The Games Started % trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from 98.25 in 2015 to 100.0 in 2016 and 98.59 in 2017. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. One of the more consistent Games Started % producers of his era, the career line shows well-above-average output with little season-to-season variance across 13 seasons.

J. J. Hardy Lifetime Games Started %

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Career97.8
Season Avg.97.8
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J. J. Hardy Games Started % Per Season

J. J. Hardy's Games Started % for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, SS, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
J. J. Hardy Games Started % per season line chart

J. J. Hardy Games Started % by Team

J. J. Hardy's career Games Started % totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
J. J. Hardy career Games Started % by team bar chart

J. J. Hardy Games Started % Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how J. J. Hardy's career Games Started % 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.
J. J. Hardy Games Started % year-over-year waterfall chart

J. J. Hardy Games Started % Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes J. J. Hardy's seasonal Games Started % 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.
J. J. Hardy Games Started % distribution box chart versus comparable players

J. J. Hardy Games Started % — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of J. J. Hardy's MLB career with Games Started % 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.
J. J. Hardy Games Started % season-by-season breakdown table