Harmon Killebrew Strikeouts

Harmon Killebrew Career Strikeouts Overview

During Harmon Killebrew's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1699 strikeouts, an average of 77 strikeouts per season. 1954 was his best season with 3 strikeouts and his worst season was 1962 when he had 142 strikeouts. Harmon Killebrew underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (305.465), The Silent Generation (356.887), Y (769.398), mlb (314.894), and 1B (401.211) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts (K) are outs recorded because the player at bat accumulates 3 strikes before putting the ball in play, is walked, or hit by a pitch. Strikes are accumlated by swinging and missing a pitch, not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or by hitting a foul ball. Foul ball strkes however are not counted for a third strike unless the foul results from a bunt or is a foul tip caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts, lower is better. (Source)

Harmon Killebrew Lifetime Strikeouts and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Strikeouts for Harmon Killebrew

	Harmon Killebrew Strikeouts	Harmon Killebrew Plate Appearance per Strikout
Career	1699	5.79
Season Avg.	77	5.45
162 Game Avg.	113	5.79
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Harmon Killebrew Strikeouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Harmon Killebrew's yearly Strikeouts for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Harmon Killebrew Cumulative Strikeouts by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Harmon Killebrew's career Strikeouts progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Harmon Killebrew's career Strikeouts at the end of that season.

Harmon Killebrew Strikeouts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Harmon Killebrew and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts for each season played by Harmon Killebrew. 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!

Harmon Killebrew Strikeouts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Harmon Killebrew Strikeouts 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Harmon Killebrew 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.