Willie McCovey Career Extra Base Hits Overview

During Willie McCovey's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 920 extra base hits, an average of 42 extra base hits per season. 1970 was his best season with 80 extra base hits and his worst season was 1980 when he had 9 extra base hits. Willie McCovey outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (169.639), The Silent Generation (178.262), Y (705.085), mlb (170.455), and 1B (241.833) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Extra base hits (XHB) are all hits where the player takes more than 1 base during a play without the benefit of an error or fielders choice. It's a sum of doubles, triples, and home runs. Generally, for Extra Base Hits, higher is better. (Source)

Willie McCovey Lifetime Extra Base Hits

Stats similar to Extra Base Hits for Willie McCovey
Willie McCovey
Extra Base Hits
Career920
Season Avg.42
162 Game Avg.58
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Willie McCovey Extra Base Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Willie McCovey's yearly Extra Base 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.
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Willie McCovey Cumulative Extra Base Hits by Year

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Willie McCovey and related player groups by summarizing Extra Base 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!
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Willie McCovey Extra Base Hits Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Willie McCovey Extra Base 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.
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