Shohei Ohtani Batters Faced

Shohei Ohtani Career Batters Faced Overview

During Shohei Ohtani's 4-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1420 batters faced, an average of 355 batters faced per season. 2022 was his best season with 660 batters faced and his worst season was 2020 when he had 16 batters faced. Shohei Ohtani is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by Japan (1703.5238095238), Y (14857.652777778), mlb (2506.629423901), Millenial (1412.8341044283), and DH (1420) 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)

Shohei Ohtani Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Shohei Ohtani

	Shohei Ohtani Batters Faced	Shohei Ohtani Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	1420	36.55
Season Avg.	355	48.94
162 Game Avg.	1533	36.55
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Shohei Ohtani Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Shohei Ohtani'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, DH, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Shohei Ohtani Cumulative Batters Faced by Year

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

Shohei Ohtani Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

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

Shohei Ohtani Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Shohei Ohtani 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, DH, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Shohei Ohtani 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.