Orel Hershiser Batters Faced

Orel Hershiser Career Batters Faced Overview

During Orel Hershiser's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 13150 batters faced, an average of 731 batters faced per season. 1987 was his best season with 1093 batters faced and his worst season was 1983 when he had 37 batters faced. Orel Hershiser is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2595.9271853631), Baby Boomers (2901.1023696683), mlb (2506.629423901), SP (3599.0649970185), and Y (14857.652777778) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batters faced is the number of hitters that have a plate appearance against a pitcher or team's pitchers over a given period of time. Generally, for Batters Faced, higher is better. (Source)

Orel Hershiser Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Orel Hershiser

	Orel Hershiser Batters Faced	Orel Hershiser Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	13150	37.81
Season Avg.	731	38.66
162 Game Avg.	1753	37.81
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Orel Hershiser Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Orel Hershiser's yearly Batters Faced 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 Batters Faced by Year

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

Orel Hershiser Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Orel Hershiser and related player groups by summarizing Batters Faced 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 Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Orel Hershiser Batters Faced 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.