Al Kaline Hits

Al Kaline Career Hits Overview

During Al Kaline's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 3007 hits, an average of 137 hits per season. 1955 was his best season with 200 hits and his worst season was 1953 when he had 7 hits. Al Kaline outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (582.834), The Silent Generation (627.975), Y (2274.55), mlb (581.433), and RF (697.013) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Base hits (H), commonly referred to as hits, is credited to a player when they reach or pass first without the benifit of a feilding error or fielders choice during an at bat. Generally, for Hits, higher is better. (Source)

Al Kaline Lifetime Hits and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Hits for Al Kaline

	Al Kaline Hits	Al Kaline Extra Base Hits
Career	3007	972
Season Avg.	137	44
162 Game Avg.	172	56
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Al Kaline Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Al Kaline's yearly Hits for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Al Kaline Cumulative Hits by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Al Kaline's career Hits progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Al Kaline's career Hits at the end of that season.

Al Kaline Hits By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Al Kaline and related player groups by summarizing Hits for each season played by Al Kaline. 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!

Al Kaline Hits Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Al Kaline Hits 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, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Al Kaline 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.