Fergie Jenkins Batters Faced

Fergie Jenkins Career Batters Faced Overview

During Fergie Jenkins's 19-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 18400 batters faced, an average of 968 batters faced per season. 1974 was his best season with 1305 batters faced and his worst season was 1965 when he had 46 batters faced. Fergie Jenkins outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting CAN (2167.6883116883), The Silent Generation (3365.3212121212), Y (14857.652777778), mlb (2506.629423901), and SP (3599.0649970185) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batters faced is the number of hitters that have a plate appearance against a pitcher or team's pitchers over a given period of time. Generally, for Batters Faced, higher is better. (Source)

Fergie Jenkins Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Fergie Jenkins

	Fergie Jenkins Batters Faced	Fergie Jenkins Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	18400	36.79
Season Avg.	968	36.81
162 Game Avg.	1884	36.79
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Fergie Jenkins Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Fergie Jenkins's yearly Batters Faced 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.

Fergie Jenkins Cumulative Batters Faced by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Fergie Jenkins's career Batters Faced progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Fergie Jenkins's career Batters Faced at the end of that season.

Fergie Jenkins Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Fergie Jenkins and related player groups by summarizing Batters Faced for each season played by Fergie Jenkins. 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!

Fergie Jenkins Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Fergie Jenkins Batters Faced 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 Fergie Jenkins 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.