Don Mattingly Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Don Mattingly's 14-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 7721 plate appearances, an average of 552 plate appearances per season. 1986 was his best season with 742 plate appearances and his worst season was 1982 when he had 13 plate appearances. Don Mattingly is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2449.99), Baby Boomers (2842.73), mlb (2441.64), 1B (3044.61), and Y (8622.88) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

Don Mattingly Lifetime Plate Appearances

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Season Avg.552
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Don Mattingly Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Don Mattingly's yearly Plate Appearances for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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Don Mattingly Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Don Mattingly's career Plate Appearances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Don Mattingly's career Plate Appearances at the end of that season.
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Don Mattingly Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Don Mattingly and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by Don Mattingly. 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!
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Don Mattingly Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Don Mattingly Plate Appearances 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Don Mattingly 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.
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