Jim Kaat Career WHIP Overview

Jim Kaat's WHIP was 1.259 for his 25-year Major League Baseball career. 1972 was his best season when his WHIP was 1.006 and his worst season was 1959 when his WHIP was 2.2. Jim Kaat is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (1.4430748912239), The Silent Generation (1.4040632814095), mlb (1.4393517854305), SP (1.4293379375862), and Y (1.2092873968723) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Walks and hits per innings pitched (WHIP) is a metric that shows how often, on average, hitters get on base per inning against a pitcher. It is calcuated by summing hits and walks for a give time period then dividing by the number of innings during that time period. Generally, for WHIP, lower is better. (Source)

Jim Kaat Lifetime WHIP

Stats similar to WHIP for Jim Kaat
Jim Kaat
WHIP
Career1.259
Season Avg.1.337
162 Game Avg.1.259
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Jim Kaat WHIP By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Jim Kaat's yearly WHIP 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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Jim Kaat WHIP By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Jim Kaat's career WHIP changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career WHIP Jim Kaat had at that season in his career.
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Jim Kaat WHIP By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Jim Kaat and related player groups by summarizing WHIP 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!
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Jim Kaat WHIP Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Jim Kaat WHIP 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.
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