Eddie Mathews Stolen Bases

Eddie Mathews Career Stolen Bases Overview

During Eddie Mathews's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 68 stolen bases, an average of 4 stolen bases per season. 1961 was his best season with 12 stolen bases and his worst season was 1968 when he had 0 stolen bases. Eddie Mathews is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (44.453), The Silent Generation (34.7722), mlb (44.2968), 3B (35.9629), and Y (203.08) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Stolen bases (SB) are the number of times a player or a team player safely advances one base they aren't entitled because of actions taken by the baserunner. This most frequently happens when a player decides to take the next base while the pitcher is pitching the ball. This is calculated over a given period of time. Generally, for Stolen Bases, higher is better. (Source)

Eddie Mathews Lifetime Stolen Bases and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Stolen Bases for Eddie Mathews

	Eddie Mathews Stolen Bases	Eddie Mathews Caught Stealing	Eddie Mathews Stolen Base Attempts	Eddie Mathews Stolen Base Percentage
Career	68	39	107	63.55
Season Avg.	4	2	6	60.14
162 Game Avg.	5	3	7	63.55
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Eddie Mathews Stolen Bases By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Eddie Mathews's yearly Stolen Bases for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 3B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Eddie Mathews Cumulative Stolen Bases by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Eddie Mathews's career Stolen Bases progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Eddie Mathews's career Stolen Bases at the end of that season.

Eddie Mathews Stolen Bases By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Eddie Mathews and related player groups by summarizing Stolen Bases for each season played by Eddie Mathews. 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!

Eddie Mathews Stolen Bases Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Eddie Mathews Stolen Bases 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, 3B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Eddie Mathews 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.