Shoeless Joe Jackson Career Sacrifice Hit Overview

During Shoeless Joe Jackson's 13-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 131 sacrifice hit, an average of 10 sacrifice hit per season. 1917 was his best season with 19 sacrifice hit and his worst season was 1908 when he had 0 sacrifice hit. Shoeless Joe Jackson outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (28.8765), The Lost Generation (64.0523), Y (97.6136), mlb (27.1854), and RF (24.4161) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice hit (SH), often referred to a sacrifice bunt, is a ball put into play in the infield allowing a runner on the bases to advance one or more bases but results in the hitter being called out at or before first base. This is often an done intentionally to move runners forward with a weaker hitter at the plate, for example a pitcher. Generally, for Sacrifice Hit, higher is better. (Source)

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Shoeless Joe Jackson Sacrifice Hit By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Shoeless Joe Jackson's yearly Sacrifice Hit for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, 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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Shoeless Joe Jackson Cumulative Sacrifice Hit by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Shoeless Joe Jackson's career Sacrifice Hit progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Shoeless Joe Jackson's career Sacrifice Hit at the end of that season.
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Shoeless Joe Jackson Sacrifice Hit By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Shoeless Joe Jackson and related player groups by summarizing Sacrifice Hit for each season played by Shoeless Joe Jackson. 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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Shoeless Joe Jackson Sacrifice Hit Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Shoeless Joe Jackson Sacrifice Hit 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, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Shoeless Joe Jackson 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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