Mike Piazza Passed Balls

Mike Piazza Career Passed Balls Overview

During Mike Piazza's 15-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 102 passed balls, an average of 6.8 passed balls per season. 1992 was his best season with 1 passed balls and his worst season was 1993 when he had 14 passed balls. Mike Piazza underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (5.62778), Gen X (3.90383), Y (14.9636), mlb (5.37004), and C (31.4503) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Passed balls are a catcher specific statistic. A passed ball is charged to a catcher or team when a player is unable to handle a pitch that is thought to be reasonably handled and a baserunner is able to take an additional base they would have otherwise not been able to take. Generally, for Passed Balls, lower is better. (Source)

Mike Piazza Lifetime Passed Balls

Stats similar to Passed Balls for Mike Piazza

	Mike Piazza Passed Balls
Career	102
Season Avg.	6.8
162 Game Avg.	9.72
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Mike Piazza Passed Balls By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Mike Piazza's yearly Passed Balls for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, C, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Mike Piazza Cumulative Passed Balls by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Mike Piazza's career Passed Balls progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Mike Piazza's career Passed Balls at the end of that season.

Mike Piazza Passed Balls By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Mike Piazza and related player groups by summarizing Passed Balls for each season played by Mike Piazza. 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!

Mike Piazza Passed Balls Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Mike Piazza Passed Balls 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, C, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Mike Piazza 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.