Willie Mays Career Base Runs Overview
During Willie Mays's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of
2316.75 base runs, an average of 105.23 base runs per season. 1955 was his best season
with 147.71 base runs and his worst season was 1952 when he had
18.32 base runs. Willie Mays outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting
USA (305.439), The Silent Generation (319.277), Y (1362.19), mlb (303.226), and CF (353.463) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that
visualize this information in more detail.
Base runs (BR) is a metric devised to try and estimate the number of runs a player or team should have created given their component offensive statistics. Generally, for Base Runs, higher is better. (
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Willie Mays Lifetime Base Runs
Stats similar to Base Runs for Willie Mays
| Willie MaysBase Runs |
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Career | 2316.75 |
Season Avg. | 105.23 |
162 Game Avg. | 125.44 |
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Willie Mays Base Runs By Year Line Chart
This line chart shows Willie Mays's yearly Base Runs
for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison,
are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, CF, and players from their
country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
Willie Mays Cumulative Base Runs by Year
This line chart attempts to show show how Willie Mays's career Base Runs progressed by year.
Each year on the chart represents Willie Mays's career Base Runs at the end of that season.
Willie Mays Base Runs By Year Box Chart
This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Willie Mays and related player groups by summarizing Base Runs
for each season played by Willie Mays. 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!
Willie Mays Base Runs Per Season Stats Table
This table shows Willie Mays Base 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,
CF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each
group for each year of Willie Mays 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.