Willie Mays Career Inning Played Overview

During Willie Mays's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 23669.7 inning played, an average of 1075.89 inning played per season. 1962 was his best season with 1393.67 inning played and his worst season was 1951 when he had 0 inning played. Willie Mays outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (3694.86), The Silent Generation (4422.76), Y (14246.1), mlb (3699.58), and CF (4542.39) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Innings played is the number of innings that happen while a defensive player is on the field in a defensive position. For a team its the total number of innings played by it's defensive players. Innings played is calcuated by taking played outs over a giving time frame and divding by 3, this means that players can play one third (.33), two thirds (.66), or full innings (1.0) Generally, for Inning Played, higher is better. (Source)

Willie Mays Lifetime Inning Played

Stats similar to Inning Played for Willie Mays
Willie Mays
Inning Played
Career23669.7
Season Avg.1075.89
162 Game Avg.1309.15
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Willie Mays Inning Played By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Willie Mays's yearly Inning Played 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 Inning Played by Year

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

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

This table shows Willie Mays Inning Played 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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