Jim Palmer Batters Faced

Jim Palmer Career Batters Faced Overview

During Jim Palmer's 19-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 16114 batters faced, an average of 848 batters faced per season. 1977 was his best season with 1269 batters faced and his worst season was 1984 when he had 89 batters faced. Jim Palmer is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2595.9271853631), The Silent Generation (3365.3212121212), mlb (2506.629423901), SP (3599.0649970185), and Y (14857.652777778) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batters faced is the number of hitters that have a plate appearance against a pitcher or team's pitchers over a given period of time. Generally, for Batters Faced, higher is better. (Source)

Jim Palmer Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Jim Palmer

	Jim Palmer Batters Faced	Jim Palmer Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	16114	36.73
Season Avg.	848	37.36
162 Game Avg.	1964	36.73
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Jim Palmer Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Jim Palmer's yearly Batters Faced 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.

Jim Palmer Cumulative Batters Faced by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Jim Palmer's career Batters Faced progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Jim Palmer's career Batters Faced at the end of that season.

Jim Palmer Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Jim Palmer and related player groups by summarizing Batters Faced for each season played by Jim Palmer. 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!

Jim Palmer Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Jim Palmer Batters Faced 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 Jim Palmer 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.