Roger Maris Home Runs

Roger Maris Career Home Runs Overview

During Roger Maris's 12-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 275 home runs, an average of 23 home runs per season. 1961 was his best season with 61 home runs and his worst season was 1968 when he had 5 home runs. Roger Maris outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (48.9087), The Silent Generation (62.2797), Y (217.415), mlb (50.1495), and RF (74.8196) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Home runs (HR) are hits where the player hits the ball and reaches home in a single play without the benefit of an error or fielders choice. Commonly this is done by the player hitting the ball over the outfield fence in fair territory but it can also occur with a well placed hit that stays inside the park. Generally, for Home Runs, higher is better. (Source)

Roger Maris Lifetime Home Runs and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Home Runs for Roger Maris

	Roger Maris Home Runs	Roger Maris Home Runs Per at Bat	Roger Maris Home Runs Per Hit
Career	275	0.054	0.208
Season Avg.	23	0.051	0.197
162 Game Avg.	30	0.054	0.208
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Roger Maris Home Runs By Year Line Chart

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

Roger Maris Cumulative Home Runs by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Roger Maris's career Home Runs progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Roger Maris's career Home Runs at the end of that season.

Roger Maris Home Runs By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Roger Maris and related player groups by summarizing Home Runs for each season played by Roger Maris. 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!

Roger Maris Home Runs Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Roger Maris Home Runs 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, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Roger Maris 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.