Craig Kimbrel Career Intentional Walks Overview

During Craig Kimbrel's 13-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 9 intentional walks, an average of 1 intentional walks per season. 2012 was his best season with 0 intentional walks and his worst season was 2013 when he had 2 intentional walks. Craig Kimbrel is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by Millenial (6.9662921348315), USA (12.084642395121), Y (42.444444444444), mlb (12.111569592128), and RP (12.351204614863) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

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

Craig Kimbrel Lifetime Intentional Walks

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Craig Kimbrel Intentional Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Craig Kimbrel'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, RP, 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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Craig Kimbrel Cumulative Intentional Walks by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Craig Kimbrel's career Intentional Walks progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Craig Kimbrel's career Intentional Walks at the end of that season.
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Craig Kimbrel Intentional Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Craig Kimbrel and related player groups by summarizing Intentional Walks for each season played by Craig Kimbrel. 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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Craig Kimbrel Intentional Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Craig Kimbrel 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, RP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Craig Kimbrel 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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