Willie McCovey Hits

Willie McCovey Career Hits Overview

During Willie McCovey's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 2211 hits, an average of 101 hits per season. 1963 was his best season with 158 hits and his worst season was 1980 when he had 23 hits. Willie McCovey is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (582.834), The Silent Generation (627.975), mlb (581.433), 1B (742.748), and Y (2274.55) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Base hits (H), commonly referred to as hits, is credited to a player when they reach or pass first without the benifit of a feilding error or fielders choice during an at bat. Generally, for Hits, higher is better. (Source)

Willie McCovey Lifetime Hits and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Hits for Willie McCovey

	Willie McCovey Hits	Willie McCovey Extra Base Hits
Career	2211	920
Season Avg.	101	42
162 Game Avg.	138	58
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Willie McCovey Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Willie McCovey's yearly Hits for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Willie McCovey Cumulative Hits by Year

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

Willie McCovey Hits By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Willie McCovey and related player groups by summarizing Hits for each season played by Willie McCovey. 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 McCovey Hits Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Willie McCovey Hits 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Willie McCovey 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.