Rickey Henderson Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Rickey Henderson's 25-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 13346 plate appearances, an average of 534 plate appearances per season. 1980 was his best season with 722 plate appearances and his worst season was 2003 when he had 84 plate appearances. Rickey Henderson outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2449.99), Baby Boomers (2842.73), Y (8622.88), mlb (2441.64), and LF (2585.58) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

Rickey Henderson Lifetime Plate Appearances

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Rickey Henderson
Plate Appearances
Career13346
Season Avg.534
162 Game Avg.702
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Rickey Henderson Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rickey Henderson's yearly Plate Appearances for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, LF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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Rickey Henderson Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Rickey Henderson's career Plate Appearances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Rickey Henderson's career Plate Appearances at the end of that season.
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Rickey Henderson Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Rickey Henderson and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by Rickey Henderson. 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!
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Rickey Henderson Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Rickey Henderson Plate Appearances 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, LF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Rickey Henderson 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.
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