Russ Ortiz Career Starts Overview

During Russ Ortiz's 12-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 266 starts, an average of 22 starts per season. 2003 was his best season with 34 starts and his worst season was 2010 when he had 0 starts. Russ Ortiz is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (68.878580669008), Gen X (58.807817589577), mlb (66.111093477226), SP (113.75581395349), and Y (437.61111111111) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The number of games a pitcher appeared as the first pitcher for thier team in a game. Generally, for Starts, higher is better. (Source)

Russ Ortiz Lifetime Starts

Stats similar to Starts for Russ Ortiz
Russ Ortiz
Starts
Career266
Season Avg.22
162 Game Avg.58
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Russ Ortiz Starts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Russ Ortiz's yearly Starts 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.
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Russ Ortiz Cumulative Starts by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Russ Ortiz's career Starts progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Russ Ortiz's career Starts at the end of that season.
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Russ Ortiz Starts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Russ Ortiz and related player groups by summarizing Starts for each season played by Russ 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!
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Russ Ortiz Starts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Russ Ortiz Starts 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 Russ 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.
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