Satchel Paige Strikeouts

Satchel Paige Career Strikeouts Overview

During Satchel Paige's 6-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 32 strikeouts, an average of 5 strikeouts per season. 1965 was his best season with 1 strikeouts and his worst season was 1952 when he had 10 strikeouts. Satchel Paige outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (305.465), The Greatest Generation (192.236), Y (769.398), mlb (314.894), and RP (82.7697) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts (K) are outs recorded because the player at bat accumulates 3 strikes before putting the ball in play, is walked, or hit by a pitch. Strikes are accumlated by swinging and missing a pitch, not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or by hitting a foul ball. Foul ball strkes however are not counted for a third strike unless the foul results from a bunt or is a foul tip caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts, lower is better. (Source)

Satchel Paige Lifetime Strikeouts and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Strikeouts for Satchel Paige

	Satchel Paige Strikeouts	Satchel Paige Plate Appearance per Strikout
Career	32	4.22
Season Avg.	5	3.98
162 Game Avg.	29	4.22
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Satchel Paige Strikeouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Satchel Paige's yearly Strikeouts 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.

Satchel Paige Cumulative Strikeouts by Year

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

Satchel Paige Strikeouts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Satchel Paige and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts 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!

Satchel Paige Strikeouts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Satchel Paige Strikeouts 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.