Jim Rice Strikeouts

Jim Rice Career Strikeouts Overview

During Jim Rice's 16-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1423 strikeouts, an average of 89 strikeouts per season. 1974 was his best season with 12 strikeouts and his worst season was 1978 when he had 126 strikeouts. Jim Rice underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (305.465), Baby Boomers (386.416), Y (769.398), mlb (314.894), and LF (343.522) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts (K) are outs recorded because the player at bat accumulates 3 strikes before putting the ball in play, is walked, or hit by a pitch. Strikes are accumlated by swinging and missing a pitch, not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or by hitting a foul ball. Foul ball strkes however are not counted for a third strike unless the foul results from a bunt or is a foul tip caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts, lower is better. (Source)

Jim Rice Lifetime Strikeouts and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Strikeouts for Jim Rice

	Jim Rice Strikeouts	Jim Rice Plate Appearance per Strikout
Career	1423	6.37
Season Avg.	89	6.44
162 Game Avg.	110	6.37
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Jim Rice Strikeouts By Year Line Chart

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

Jim Rice Cumulative Strikeouts by Year

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

Jim Rice Strikeouts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Jim Rice and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts for each season played by Jim Rice. 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 Rice Strikeouts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Jim Rice Strikeouts 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, LF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Jim Rice 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.