Shohei Ohtani Starts as Fielder

Shohei Ohtani Career Starts as Fielder Overview

During Shohei Ohtani's 3-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 35 starts as fielder, an average of 11.67 starts as fielder per season. 2021 was his best season with 23 starts as fielder and his worst season was 2020 when he had 2 starts as fielder. Shohei Ohtani underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating Japan (371.1), Millenial (293.837), Y (1358.91), mlb (389.973), and DH (269.701) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The number of games a player had where he played a defensive position from the start of game, before the start of the first batters plate appearance. Generally, for Starts as Fielder, higher is better. (Source)

Shohei Ohtani Lifetime Starts as Fielder

Stats similar to Starts as Fielder for Shohei Ohtani

	Shohei Ohtani Starts as Fielder
Career	35
Season Avg.	11.67
162 Game Avg.	135
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Shohei Ohtani Starts as Fielder By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Shohei Ohtani's yearly Starts as Fielder 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 Starts as Fielder by Year

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

Shohei Ohtani Starts as Fielder By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Shohei Ohtani and related player groups by summarizing Starts as Fielder 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 Starts as Fielder Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Shohei Ohtani Starts as Fielder 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.