Walter Johnson Career Shutouts Overview

During Walter Johnson's 21-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 110 shutouts, an average of 5 shutouts per season. 1913 was his best season with 11 shutouts and his worst season was 1921 when he had 1 shutouts. Walter Johnson outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (3.2291628164849), Y (37.708333333333), mlb (2.9590541183939), and SP (5.2778771615981) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Shutouts are credited to a pitcher when he is on the mound for all the outs in a baseball game and the pitcher does not allow the opposing team to score a single run. Typically this is 27 outs but if the game goes into extra innings the number of innings could be higher. Generally, for Shutouts, higher is better. (Source)

Walter Johnson Lifetime Shutouts

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Walter Johnson Shutouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Walter Johnson's yearly Shutouts 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.
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Walter Johnson Cumulative Shutouts by Year

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Walter Johnson and related player groups by summarizing Shutouts 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!
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Walter Johnson Shutouts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Walter Johnson Shutouts 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.
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