Orel Hershiser Walks

Orel Hershiser Career Walks Overview

During Orel Hershiser's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1007 walks, an average of 56 walks per season. 1990 was his best season with 4 walks and his worst season was 1986 when he had 86 walks. Orel Hershiser is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (216.9380890778), Baby Boomers (248.96682464455), mlb (210.21488652595), SP (291.93291592129), and Y (1019.1666666667) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A walk is issued by a pitcher or a team's pitchers when four balls, pitches out of the strike zone which do not hit the batter and are not swung on, before the plate appearance ends. The batter is then given first base and the plate apperance is over. Generally, for Walks, lower is better. (Source)

Orel Hershiser Lifetime Walks and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Walks for Orel Hershiser

	Orel Hershiser Walks	Orel Hershiser Intentional Walks	Orel Hershiser Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings
Career	1007	108	2.9
Season Avg.	56	6	3.15
162 Game Avg.	134	14	2.9
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Orel Hershiser Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Orel Hershiser's yearly Walks 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.

Orel Hershiser Cumulative Walks by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Orel Hershiser's career Walks progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Orel Hershiser's career Walks at the end of that season.

Orel Hershiser Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Orel Hershiser and related player groups by summarizing Walks 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!

Orel Hershiser Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Orel Hershiser Walks 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.