Al Kaline Intentional Walks

Al Kaline Career Intentional Walks Overview

During Al Kaline's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 131 intentional walks, an average of 6 intentional walks per season. 1955 was his best season with 12 intentional walks and his worst season was 1953 when he had 0 intentional walks. Al Kaline outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (11.8855), The Silent Generation (25.8854), Y (53.733), mlb (12.4524), and RF (16.0459) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Intentional walks (IBB) are walks issued to hitters to avoid risking a strong hitter from having a damaging at bat. Historically a pitcher would need to throw 4 intentional balls, however newer rules removes this requirement and batters can be walked without the pitches using a signal to the upmire. Generally, for Intentional Walks, higher is better. (Source)

Al Kaline Lifetime Intentional Walks

Stats similar to Intentional Walks for Al Kaline

	Al Kaline Intentional Walks
Career	131
Season Avg.	6
162 Game Avg.	7
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Al Kaline Intentional Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Al Kaline's yearly Intentional Walks 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 Intentional Walks by Year

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

Al Kaline Intentional Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Al Kaline and related player groups by summarizing Intentional Walks 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 Intentional Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Al Kaline Intentional Walks 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.