Orel Hershiser Hits

Orel Hershiser Career Hits Overview

During Orel Hershiser's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 2939 hits, an average of 163 hits per season. 1983 was his best season with 7 hits and his worst season was 1987 when he had 247 hits. Orel Hershiser is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (605.81482165958), Baby Boomers (670.3298578199), mlb (583.2185367402), SP (843.56231365534), and Y (3314.7638888889) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Hits allowed is the number of hits given up by a pitcher or team's pitchers over a defined time period. A hit allowed is attributed to a pitcher when the batter reaches or passes first without the benifit of a feilding error or fielders choice during an at bat. Generally, for Hits, lower is better. (Source)

Orel Hershiser Lifetime Hits and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Hits for Orel Hershiser

	Orel Hershiser Hits	Orel Hershiser Hits Allowed Per 9 Innings
Career	2939	8.45
Season Avg.	163	8.88
162 Game Avg.	392	8.45
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Orel Hershiser Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Orel Hershiser's yearly Hits 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 Hits by Year

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

Orel Hershiser Hits By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Orel Hershiser Hits 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.