How Cliff Lee's Games Started % Compares to Similar Players

Cliff Lee posted a career Games Started % of 98.78, well above the starting pitcher average of .674 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Games Started % season came in 2002, posting 100.0, well above the starting pitcher average of .722 that year. The lowest point came in 2007 at 80.0, well above the starting pitcher average of .718 that year. Output was consistent through the final seasons. The figure moved from 100.0 in 2012 to 100.0 in 2013 and 100.0 in 2014. The consistent output characterized his final seasons. One of the more consistent Games Started % producers of his era, the career line shows well-above-average output with little season-to-season variance across 13 seasons.

Cliff Lee Lifetime Games Started %

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Cliff Lee
Games Started %
Career98.78
Season Avg.98.78
162 Game Avg.98.78
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Cliff Lee Games Started % Per Season

Cliff Lee's Games Started % for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Cliff Lee Games Started % per season line chart

Cliff Lee Games Started % by Team

Cliff Lee's career Games Started % totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Cliff Lee career Games Started % by team bar chart

Cliff Lee Games Started % Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Cliff Lee's career Games Started % shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Cliff Lee Games Started % year-over-year waterfall chart

Cliff Lee Games Started % Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Cliff Lee's seasonal Games Started % alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Cliff Lee Games Started % distribution box chart versus comparable players

Cliff Lee Games Started % — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Cliff Lee's MLB career with Games Started % alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Cliff Lee Games Started % season-by-season breakdown table