Orel Hershiser Plate Appearances

Orel Hershiser Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Orel Hershiser's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 949 plate appearances, an average of 53 plate appearances per season. 1988 was his best season with 105 plate appearances and his worst season was 1983 when he had 0 plate appearances. Orel Hershiser is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (493.615), USA (2449.99), Baby Boomers (2842.73), Y (8622.88), and mlb (2441.64) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

Orel Hershiser Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Orel Hershiser

	Orel Hershiser Plate Appearances
Career	949
Season Avg.	53
162 Game Avg.	295
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Orel Hershiser Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Orel Hershiser's yearly Plate Appearances 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 Plate Appearances by Year

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

Orel Hershiser Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Orel Hershiser Plate Appearances 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.