Orel Hershiser Strikeouts

Orel Hershiser Career Strikeouts Overview

During Orel Hershiser's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 182 strikeouts, an average of 10 strikeouts per season. 1983 was his best season with 0 strikeouts and his worst season was 1989 when he had 25 strikeouts. Orel Hershiser is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (121.538), USA (305.465), Baby Boomers (386.416), Y (769.398), and mlb (314.894) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts (K) are outs recorded because the player at bat accumulates 3 strikes before putting the ball in play, is walked, or hit by a pitch. Strikes are accumlated by swinging and missing a pitch, not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or by hitting a foul ball. Foul ball strkes however are not counted for a third strike unless the foul results from a bunt or is a foul tip caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts, lower is better. (Source)

Orel Hershiser Lifetime Strikeouts and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Strikeouts for Orel Hershiser

	Orel Hershiser Strikeouts	Orel Hershiser Plate Appearance per Strikout
Career	182	5.21
Season Avg.	10	4.92
162 Game Avg.	57	5.21
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Orel Hershiser Strikeouts By Year Line Chart

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

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

Orel Hershiser Strikeouts By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Orel Hershiser Strikeouts 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.