How Russ Ortiz's Total Average Compares to Similar Players

Russ Ortiz posted a career Total Average of .449, well below the league average of .673 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Total Average season came in 2006, posting 1.0, well above the league average of .718 that year. The lowest point came in 2004 at .185, well below the league average of .719 that year. The Total Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .286 in 2007 to .375 in 2009. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Total Average profile — ranging from .185 to 1.0 — though the career average remained well below league norms.

Russ Ortiz Lifetime Total Average

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Russ Ortiz Total Average Per Season

Russ Ortiz's Total Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Russ Ortiz Total Average per season line chart

Russ Ortiz Total Average by Team

Russ Ortiz's career Total Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Russ Ortiz career Total Average by team bar chart

Russ Ortiz Total Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Russ Ortiz's career Total Average shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Russ Ortiz Total Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Russ Ortiz Total Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Russ Ortiz's seasonal Total Average alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Russ Ortiz Total Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Russ Ortiz Total Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Russ Ortiz's MLB career with Total Average alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Russ Ortiz Total Average season-by-season breakdown table