Satchel Paige Career Starts Overview

During Satchel Paige's 6-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 26 starts, an average of 4 starts per season. 1948 was his best season with 7 starts and his worst season was 1965 when he had 1 starts. Satchel Paige is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by RP (11.886325076349), USA (68.878580669008), The Greatest Generation (72.737456242707), Y (437.61111111111), and mlb (66.111093477226) 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)

Satchel Paige Lifetime Starts

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Satchel Paige Starts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Satchel Paige'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, RP, 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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Satchel Paige Cumulative Starts by Year

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Satchel Paige and related player groups by summarizing Starts for each season played by Satchel Paige. 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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Satchel Paige Starts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Satchel Paige 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, RP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Satchel Paige 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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