Albert Pujols's Triples Overview

During Albert Pujols's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had 16 triples, an average of 1 triples per season. 2001 was his best season with 4 triples and his worst season was 2008 when he had 0 triples. Albert Pujols is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by Gen X (13.5668), Y (94.5341), mlb (18.7975), 1B (21.5274), and D.R. (14.7636) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Triples are hits where the player reaches third base safely in a single play without the benefit of an error or fielders choice. If they pass third base safely and it was because of a fielding error it's still considered only a triple. Generally, for Triples, higher is better. (Source)

Albert Pujols's Triples Per Season Line Chart

This line chart shows Albert Pujols's yearly Triples for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, 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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Albert Pujols's Cumulative Triples by Season

This line chart attempts to show shows Albert Pujols's progression over their entire career. Each year on the chart represents Albert Pujols's career total Triples at the end of that season.
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Albert Pujols's Triples Per Season Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Albert Pujols and related player groups by summarizing Triples for each season played by Albert Pujols. 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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Albert Pujols's Season Triples Stats Table

This table shows Albert Pujols's Triples 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Albert Pujols's 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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