Orel Hershiser Career At Bats Overview

During Orel Hershiser's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 810 at bats, an average of 45 at bats per season. 1987 was his best season with 90 at bats and his worst season was 1983 when he had 0 at bats. Orel Hershiser is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (439.807), USA (2176.94), Baby Boomers (2532.58), Y (7565.9), and mlb (2174.26) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

At bats (AB) are a subset of plate appearances used to calculate other stats like slugging percent and batting average. Players are credited with an at bat when their plate appereance does not end as a walk, a hit by pitch, sac fly or bunt, awarded a base for catcher interfiernce or replaced before their plate appereance completes. Generally, for At Bats, higher is better. (Source)

Orel Hershiser Lifetime At Bats

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Orel Hershiser At Bats By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Orel Hershiser's yearly At Bats 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.
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Orel Hershiser Cumulative At Bats by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Orel Hershiser's career At Bats progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Orel Hershiser's career At Bats at the end of that season.
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Orel Hershiser At Bats By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Orel Hershiser and related player groups by summarizing At Bats for each season played by Orel Hershiser. 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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Orel Hershiser At Bats Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Orel Hershiser At Bats 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 Orel Hershiser 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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