Al Kaline Starts as Fielder

Al Kaline Career Starts as Fielder Overview

During Al Kaline's 21-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 2482 starts as fielder, an average of 118.19 starts as fielder per season. 1956 was his best season with 153 starts as fielder and his worst season was 1953 when he had 0 starts as fielder. Al Kaline outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (385.376), The Silent Generation (493.654), Y (1358.91), mlb (389.973), and RF (453.102) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The number of games a player had where he played a defensive position from the start of game, before the start of the first batters plate appearance. Generally, for Starts as Fielder, higher is better. (Source)

Al Kaline Lifetime Starts as Fielder

Stats similar to Starts as Fielder for Al Kaline

	Al Kaline Starts as Fielder
Career	2482
Season Avg.	118.19
162 Game Avg.	153.18
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Al Kaline Starts as Fielder By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Al Kaline's yearly Starts as Fielder 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 Starts as Fielder by Year

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

Al Kaline Starts as Fielder By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Al Kaline and related player groups by summarizing Starts as Fielder 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 Starts as Fielder Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Al Kaline Starts as Fielder 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.