Willie Mays Career Games Hitting Overview

During Willie Mays's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 2992 games hitting, an average of 136 games hitting per season. 1962 was his best season with 162 games hitting and his worst season was 1952 when he had 34 games hitting. Willie Mays outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (674.034), The Silent Generation (782.54), Y (2061.94), mlb (672.562), and CF (743.272) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The number of games (G) the player had at least one offensive appeareance. Generally, for Games Hitting, higher is better. (Source)

Willie Mays Lifetime Games Hitting

Stats similar to Games Hitting for Willie Mays
Willie Mays
Games Hitting
Career2992
Season Avg.136
162 Game Avg.162
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Willie Mays Games Hitting By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Willie Mays's yearly Games Hitting 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 Games Hitting by Year

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Willie Mays and related player groups by summarizing Games Hitting 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 Games Hitting Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Willie Mays Games Hitting 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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