David Ortiz Plate Appearances

David Ortiz Career Plate Appearances Overview

During David Ortiz's 20-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 10091 plate appearances, an average of 505 plate appearances per season. 2005 was his best season with 713 plate appearances and his worst season was 1999 when he had 25 plate appearances. David Ortiz outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting D.R. (2450.51), Gen X (2727.36), Y (8622.88), mlb (2441.64), and DH (3252.3) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

David Ortiz Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for David Ortiz

	David Ortiz Plate Appearances
Career	10091
Season Avg.	505
162 Game Avg.	679
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David Ortiz Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows David Ortiz's yearly Plate Appearances 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.

David Ortiz Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how David Ortiz's career Plate Appearances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents David Ortiz's career Plate Appearances at the end of that season.

David Ortiz Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between David Ortiz and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by David Ortiz. 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!

David Ortiz Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows David Ortiz Plate Appearances 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 David Ortiz 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.