Phil Niekro Batters Faced

Phil Niekro Career Batters Faced Overview

During Phil Niekro's 24-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 22677 batters faced, an average of 945 batters faced per season. 1979 was his best season with 1436 batters faced and his worst season was 1964 when he had 66 batters faced. Phil Niekro outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2595.9271853631), The Silent Generation (3365.3212121212), Y (14857.652777778), mlb (2506.629423901), and SP (3599.0649970185) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batters faced is the number of hitters that have a plate appearance against a pitcher or team's pitchers over a given period of time. Generally, for Batters Faced, higher is better. (Source)

Phil Niekro Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Phil Niekro

	Phil Niekro Batters Faced	Phil Niekro Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	22677	37.76
Season Avg.	945	38.06
162 Game Avg.	1785	37.76
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Phil Niekro Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

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

Phil Niekro Cumulative Batters Faced by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Phil Niekro's career Batters Faced progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Phil Niekro's career Batters Faced at the end of that season.

Phil Niekro Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Phil Niekro and related player groups by summarizing Batters Faced for each season played by Phil Niekro. 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!

Phil Niekro Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Phil Niekro Batters Faced 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Phil Niekro 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.