Walter Johnson Hit By Pitch

Walter Johnson Career Hit By Pitch Overview

During Walter Johnson's 21-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 203 hit by pitch, an average of 10 hit by pitch per season. 1907 was his best season with 2 hit by pitch and his worst season was 1923 when he had 20 hit by pitch. Walter Johnson underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (16.988726667899), The Lost Generation (18.1234375), Y (78.847222222222), mlb (16.840818917632), and SP (22.708706022659) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Hit batsman is the total number of times a pitcher or team's pitchers hits a player or player equipment exluding his bat with an errant pitch, the pitch is a non-strike pitch, the batter made sufficient effort to avoid being hit by the pitch, and is awarded first base. It's measured over a given time period such as season or career. Generally, for Hit By Pitch, lower is better. (Source)

Walter Johnson Lifetime Hit By Pitch

Stats similar to Hit By Pitch for Walter Johnson

	Walter Johnson Hit By Pitch
Career	203
Season Avg.	10
162 Game Avg.	17
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Walter Johnson Hit By Pitch By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Walter Johnson's yearly Hit By Pitch 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.

Walter Johnson Cumulative Hit By Pitch by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Walter Johnson's career Hit By Pitch progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Walter Johnson's career Hit By Pitch at the end of that season.

Walter Johnson Hit By Pitch By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Walter Johnson and related player groups by summarizing Hit By Pitch for each season played by Walter Johnson. 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!

Walter Johnson Hit By Pitch Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Walter Johnson Hit By Pitch 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 Walter Johnson 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.