Orel Hershiser Career Range Factor Overview

Orel Hershiser's Range Factor was 1.767 for his 18-year Major League Baseball career. 1988 was his best season when his Range Factor was 2.629 and his worst season was 1983 when his Range Factor was 0.25. Orel Hershiser is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (1.0162), USA (3.63223), Baby Boomers (3.47174), Y (4.21525), and mlb (3.60579) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Range factor is a metric that shows how often a defensive player records an putout or assist per innings played. It is calculated by dividing chances accepted by innings played by a player or team over a given period of time Generally, for Range Factor, higher is better. (Source)

Orel Hershiser Lifetime Range Factor

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Orel Hershiser Range Factor By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Orel Hershiser's yearly Range Factor 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 Range Factor By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Orel Hershiser's career Range Factor changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Range Factor Orel Hershiser had at that season in his career.
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Orel Hershiser Range Factor By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Orel Hershiser Range Factor 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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