How Chris James's Games Started % Compares to Similar Players

Chris James posted a career Games Started % of 89.7, well above the league average of .644 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Games Started % season came in 1988, posting 98.64, well above the league average of .739 that year. The lowest point came in 1995 at 61.54, well above the league average of .707 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from 91.94 in 1992 to 95.12 in 1993 and 61.54 in 1995. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well above league norms across 9 seasons.

Chris James Lifetime Games Started %

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Chris James Games Started % Per Season

Chris James's Games Started % for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, LF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Chris James Games Started % per season line chart

Chris James Games Started % by Team

Chris James's career Games Started % totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Chris James career Games Started % by team bar chart

Chris James Games Started % Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Chris James's career Games Started % shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Chris James Games Started % year-over-year waterfall chart

Chris James Games Started % Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Chris James's seasonal Games Started % alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Chris James Games Started % distribution box chart versus comparable players

Chris James Games Started % — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Chris James's MLB career with Games Started % alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Chris James Games Started % season-by-season breakdown table