Greg Maddux's Career and Season Strikeouts Thrown Stats

Greg Maddux's Strikeouts Thrown Overview

During Greg Maddux's 23-year Major League Baseball career, he had 3371 strikeouts thrown, an average of 146.565 strikeouts thrown per season. 1998 was his best season with 204 strikeouts thrown and his worst season was 1986 when he had 20 strikeouts thrown. Greg Maddux outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (349.994), Gen X (381.298), Y (2147.6), mlb (349.676), and SP (474.939) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts are outs recorded by the pitcher or team's pitchers when 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 third strike caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts Thrown, higher is better. (Source)

Greg Maddux's Strikeouts Thrown Per Season Line Chart

This line chart shows Greg Maddux's yearly Strikeouts Thrown 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.

Greg Maddux's Cumulative Strikeouts Thrown by Season

This line chart attempts to show shows Greg Maddux's progression over their entire career. Each year on the chart represents Greg Maddux's career total Strikeouts Thrown at the end of that season.

Greg Maddux's Strikeouts Thrown Per Season Box Chart

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

Greg Maddux's Season Strikeouts Thrown Stats Table

This table shows Greg Maddux's Strikeouts Thrown 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 Greg Maddux's 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.