Orel Hershiser Home Runs

Orel Hershiser Career Home Runs Overview

During Orel Hershiser's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 235 home runs, an average of 13 home runs per season. 1983 was his best season with 1 home runs and his worst season was 1997 when he had 26 home runs. Orel Hershiser underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (49.06283496581), Baby Boomers (62.108056872038), Y (209.09722222222), mlb (49.06951277575), and SP (69.049194991056) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Home runs allowed is the number of home runs given up by a pitcher or a team's pitchers over a defined period of time. A home run is attributed to a pitcher when that batter makes it safeley home in the same play where the ball was put into play and there were no fielding errors. Most commonly this is when a player hits the ball over the outfield fence in fair territory but on some occasions a well placed hit into the outfield can result in an in the park home run. Generally, for Home Runs, lower is better. (Source)

Orel Hershiser Lifetime Home Runs and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Home Runs for Orel Hershiser

	Orel Hershiser Home Runs	Orel Hershiser Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings	Orel Hershiser Home Runs Allowed per Game
Career	235	0.68	0.46
Season Avg.	13	0.75	0.45
162 Game Avg.	31	0.68	0.46
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Orel Hershiser Home Runs By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Orel Hershiser's yearly Home Runs 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 Home Runs by Year

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

Orel Hershiser Home Runs By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Orel Hershiser Home Runs 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.