Willie Mays Career Caught Stealing Overview

During Willie Mays's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 103 caught stealing, an average of 5 caught stealing per season. 1957 was his best season with 19 caught stealing and his worst season was 1967 when he had 0 caught stealing. Willie Mays outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (15.6674), The Silent Generation (20.2469), Y (52.2727), mlb (16.1111), and CF (27.592) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Caught stealing (CS) is the number of times a player or a team player is called out attempting to take a base he is not entitled to take. Generally, for Caught Stealing, higher is better. (Source)

Willie Mays Lifetime Caught Stealing

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Willie Mays
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Willie Mays Caught Stealing By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Willie Mays's yearly Caught Stealing 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.
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Willie Mays Cumulative Caught Stealing by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Willie Mays's career Caught Stealing progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Willie Mays's career Caught Stealing at the end of that season.
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Willie Mays Caught Stealing By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Willie Mays and related player groups by summarizing Caught Stealing 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!
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Willie Mays Caught Stealing Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Willie Mays Caught Stealing 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.
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