Willie McCovey Sacrifice Hit

Willie McCovey Career Sacrifice Hit Overview

During Willie McCovey's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 5 sacrifice hit, an average of 0 sacrifice hit per season. 1965 was his best season with 2 sacrifice hit and his worst season was 1959 when he had 0 sacrifice hit. Willie McCovey underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (28.8765), The Silent Generation (21.2592), Y (97.6136), mlb (27.1854), and 1B (24.6551) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice hit (SH), often referred to a sacrifice bunt, is a ball put into play in the infield allowing a runner on the bases to advance one or more bases but results in the hitter being called out at or before first base. This is often an done intentionally to move runners forward with a weaker hitter at the plate, for example a pitcher. Generally, for Sacrifice Hit, higher is better. (Source)

Willie McCovey Lifetime Sacrifice Hit and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Sacrifice Hit for Willie McCovey

	Willie McCovey Sacrifice Hit	Willie McCovey Sacrifice Fly
Career	5	70
Season Avg.	0	3
162 Game Avg.	0	4
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Willie McCovey Sacrifice Hit By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Willie McCovey's yearly Sacrifice Hit 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 Sacrifice Hit by Year

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

Willie McCovey Sacrifice Hit By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Willie McCovey Sacrifice Hit 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.