Jim Kaat Batters Faced

Jim Kaat Career Batters Faced Overview

During Jim Kaat's 25-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 19023 batters faced, an average of 761 batters faced per season. 1975 was his best season with 1279 batters faced and his worst season was 1959 when he had 29 batters faced. Jim Kaat outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2595.9271853631), 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)

Jim Kaat Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Jim Kaat

	Jim Kaat Batters Faced	Jim Kaat Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	19023	37.79
Season Avg.	761	38.69
162 Game Avg.	1440	37.79
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Jim Kaat Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Jim Kaat'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.

Jim Kaat Cumulative Batters Faced by Year

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

Jim Kaat Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

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

Jim Kaat Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Jim Kaat 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 Jim Kaat 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.