Catfish Hunter Earned Runs

Catfish Hunter Career Earned Runs Overview

During Catfish Hunter's 15-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1248 earned runs, an average of 83 earned runs per season. 1978 was his best season with 47 earned runs and his worst season was 1976 when he had 117 earned runs. Catfish Hunter is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (260.02402513399), The Silent Generation (319.76666666667), mlb (252.43564513569), SP (361.29457364341), and Y (1220.25) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

An earned run is run scored by the opposing team that is considered to be a direct result of the pitchers actions. For example a home run would be counted as an earned run since the pitcher would be directly responsible for the hit whereas a player scoring because of a position player's defensive error, or had advanced bases because of a position player's defenisve error allowing them to score later is not an earned run Generally, for Earned Runs, lower is better. (Source)

Catfish Hunter Lifetime Earned Runs

Stats similar to Earned Runs for Catfish Hunter

	Catfish Hunter Earned Runs
Career	1248
Season Avg.	83
162 Game Avg.	170
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Catfish Hunter Earned Runs By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Catfish Hunter's yearly Earned Runs 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.

Catfish Hunter Cumulative Earned Runs by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Catfish Hunter's career Earned Runs progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Catfish Hunter's career Earned Runs at the end of that season.

Catfish Hunter Earned Runs By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Catfish Hunter and related player groups by summarizing Earned Runs for each season played by Catfish Hunter. 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!

Catfish Hunter Earned Runs Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Catfish Hunter Earned Runs 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 Catfish Hunter 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.