Sandy Koufax Intentional Walks

Sandy Koufax Career Intentional Walks Overview

During Sandy Koufax's 12-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 48 intentional walks, an average of 4 intentional walks per season. 1956 was his best season with 0 intentional walks and his worst season was 1963 when he had 7 intentional walks. Sandy Koufax underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (12.084642395121), The Silent Generation (27.730303030303), Y (42.444444444444), mlb (12.111569592128), and SP (11.901013714967) 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)

Sandy Koufax Lifetime Intentional Walks

Stats similar to Intentional Walks for Sandy Koufax

	Sandy Koufax Intentional Walks
Career	48
Season Avg.	4
162 Game Avg.	8
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Sandy Koufax Intentional Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Sandy Koufax'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, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Sandy Koufax Cumulative Intentional Walks by Year

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

Sandy Koufax Intentional Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Sandy Koufax and related player groups by summarizing Intentional Walks for each season played by Sandy Koufax. 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!

Sandy Koufax Intentional Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Sandy Koufax 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Sandy Koufax 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.