Orel Hershiser Career Played Outs Overview

During Orel Hershiser's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 9391 played outs, an average of 521.72 played outs per season. 1988 was his best season with 801 played outs and his worst season was 1983 when he had 24 played outs. Orel Hershiser is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (2453.24), USA (11084.6), Baby Boomers (13155.4), Y (42738.4), and mlb (11098.7) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Played outs is the number outs that happen while a defensive player is on the field in a defensive position over a given time frame. For a team it's the number of defenisve outs recorded for a given time period. Generally, for Played Outs, higher is better. (Source)

Orel Hershiser Lifetime Played Outs

Stats similar to Played Outs for Orel Hershiser
Orel Hershiser
Played Outs
Career9391
Season Avg.521.72
162 Game Avg.2983.02
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Orel Hershiser Played Outs By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Orel Hershiser's yearly Played Outs 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 Played Outs by Year

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

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

This table shows Orel Hershiser Played Outs 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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