Kent Hrbek Career Intentional Walks Overview

During Kent Hrbek's 14-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 110 intentional walks, an average of 8 intentional walks per season. 1984 was his best season with 15 intentional walks and his worst season was 1981 when he had 1 intentional walks. Kent Hrbek outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (11.8855), Baby Boomers (24.3428), Y (53.733), mlb (12.4524), and 1B (23.2421) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Intentional walks (IBB) are walks issued to hitters to avoid risking a strong hitter from having a damaging at bat. Historically a pitcher would need to throw 4 intentional balls, however newer rules removes this requirement and batters can be walked without the pitches using a signal to the upmire. Generally, for Intentional Walks, higher is better. (Source)

Kent Hrbek Lifetime Intentional Walks

Stats similar to Intentional Walks for Kent Hrbek
Kent Hrbek
Intentional Walks
Career110
Season Avg.8
162 Game Avg.10
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Kent Hrbek Intentional Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Kent Hrbek's yearly Intentional Walks for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, 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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Kent Hrbek Cumulative Intentional Walks by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Kent Hrbek's career Intentional Walks progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Kent Hrbek's career Intentional Walks at the end of that season.
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Kent Hrbek Intentional Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Kent Hrbek and related player groups by summarizing Intentional Walks for each season played by Kent Hrbek. 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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Kent Hrbek Intentional Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Kent Hrbek Intentional Walks 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Kent Hrbek 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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