Jonathan Papelbon Career Games Finished Overview

During Jonathan Papelbon's 12-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 585 games finished, an average of 49 games finished per season. 2012 was his best season with 64 games finished and his worst season was 2005 when he had 4 games finished. Jonathan Papelbon outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (46.609683977084), Gen X (56.082247557003), Y (133.29166666667), mlb (47.436756070465), and RP (70.874109263658) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Games finished is the number of games where the pitcher is the last pitcher to appear in the game for a team. These days, closers and late releivers would likely have many games finished whereas starters would have few. Generally, for Games Finished, higher is better. (Source)

Jonathan Papelbon Lifetime Games Finished

Stats similar to Games Finished for Jonathan Papelbon
Jonathan Papelbon
Games Finished
Career585
Season Avg.49
162 Game Avg.58
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Jonathan Papelbon Games Finished By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Jonathan Papelbon's yearly Games Finished 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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Jonathan Papelbon Cumulative Games Finished by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Jonathan Papelbon's career Games Finished progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Jonathan Papelbon's career Games Finished at the end of that season.
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Jonathan Papelbon Games Finished By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Jonathan Papelbon and related player groups by summarizing Games Finished for each season played by Jonathan Papelbon. 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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Jonathan Papelbon Games Finished Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Jonathan Papelbon Games Finished 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 Jonathan Papelbon 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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