Kirby Puckett Hit By Pitch

Kirby Puckett Career Hit By Pitch Overview

During Kirby Puckett's 12-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 56 hit by pitch, an average of 5 hit by pitch per season. 1986 was his best season with 7 hit by pitch and his worst season was 1988 when he had 2 hit by pitch. Kirby Puckett is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (16.8708), Baby Boomers (15.2521), mlb (17.028), CF (18.6149), and Y (55.5511) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Hit by pitch (HBP) is the total number of times a player or player equipment exluding his bat, is hit by a non-strike pitch, made sufficient effort to avoid the pitch, and is awarded first base. It's measured over a given time period such as season or career. Generally, for Hit By Pitch, higher is better. (Source)

Kirby Puckett Lifetime Hit By Pitch

Stats similar to Hit By Pitch for Kirby Puckett

	Kirby Puckett Hit By Pitch
Career	56
Season Avg.	5
162 Game Avg.	5
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Kirby Puckett Hit By Pitch By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Kirby Puckett's yearly Hit By Pitch for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, CF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Kirby Puckett Cumulative Hit By Pitch by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Kirby Puckett's career Hit By Pitch progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Kirby Puckett's career Hit By Pitch at the end of that season.

Kirby Puckett Hit By Pitch By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Kirby Puckett and related player groups by summarizing Hit By Pitch for each season played by Kirby Puckett. 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!

Kirby Puckett Hit By Pitch Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Kirby Puckett Hit By Pitch 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, CF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Kirby Puckett 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.