Whit Merrifield Career Hit By Pitch Overview

During Whit Merrifield's 7-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 25 hit by pitch, an average of 4 hit by pitch per season. 2017 was his best season with 6 hit by pitch and his worst season was 2016 when he had 0 hit by pitch. Whit Merrifield is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (16.8708), Millenial (18.0294), mlb (17.028), 2B (17.6372), and Y (55.5511) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Hit by pitch (HBP) is the total number of times a player or player equipment exluding his bat, is hit by a non-strike pitch, made sufficient effort to avoid the pitch, and is awarded first base. It's measured over a given time period such as season or career. Generally, for Hit By Pitch, higher is better. (Source)

Whit Merrifield Lifetime Hit By Pitch

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Whit Merrifield Hit By Pitch By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Whit Merrifield's yearly Hit By Pitch for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 2B, 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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Whit Merrifield Cumulative Hit By Pitch by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Whit Merrifield's career Hit By Pitch progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Whit Merrifield's career Hit By Pitch at the end of that season.
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Whit Merrifield Hit By Pitch By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Whit Merrifield and related player groups by summarizing Hit By Pitch for each season played by Whit Merrifield. 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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Whit Merrifield Hit By Pitch Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Whit Merrifield Hit By Pitch 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, 2B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Whit Merrifield 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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