Willie Mays Sacrifice Fly

Willie Mays Career Sacrifice Fly Overview

During Willie Mays's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 91 sacrifice fly, an average of 4 sacrifice fly per season. 1960 was his best season with 9 sacrifice fly and his worst season was 1951 when he had 0 sacrifice fly. Willie Mays outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (11.3474), The Silent Generation (18.6917), Y (32.983), mlb (12.1148), and CF (11.7256) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice fly (SF) is a ball put into play in the outfield that is caught and results in an out for the hitter, however one or more runners on the bases are able to advance one or more bases after the ball is caught often because of hit placement. Generally, for Sacrifice Fly, higher is better. (Source)

Willie Mays Lifetime Sacrifice Fly

Stats similar to Sacrifice Fly for Willie Mays

	Willie Mays Sacrifice Fly
Career	91
Season Avg.	4
162 Game Avg.	5
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Willie Mays Sacrifice Fly By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Willie Mays's yearly Sacrifice Fly 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 Sacrifice Fly by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Willie Mays's career Sacrifice Fly progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Willie Mays's career Sacrifice Fly at the end of that season.

Willie Mays Sacrifice Fly By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Willie Mays Sacrifice Fly 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.