Cal Ripken Jr. Career Ground into Double Play (GIDP) Overview

During Cal Ripken Jr.'s 21-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 350 ground into double play (gidp), an average of 17 ground into double play (gidp) per season. 1981 was his best season with 4 ground into double play (gidp) and his worst season was 1985 when he had 32 ground into double play (gidp). Cal Ripken Jr. underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (36.4975), Baby Boomers (57.0559), Y (110.943), mlb (38.3712), and SS (41.916) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Ground into Double Play (GIDP) is a measurement of how many double plays a player or team hit cause over a given time period. d Generally, for Ground into Double Play (GIDP), lower is better. (Source)

Cal Ripken Jr. Lifetime Ground into Double Play (GIDP)

Stats similar to Ground into Double Play (GIDP) for Cal Ripken Jr.
Cal Ripken Jr.
Ground into Double Play (GIDP)
Career350
Season Avg.17
162 Game Avg.19
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Cal Ripken Jr. Ground into Double Play (GIDP) By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cal Ripken Jr.'s yearly Ground into Double Play (GIDP) for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SS, 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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Cal Ripken Jr. Cumulative Ground into Double Play (GIDP) by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Cal Ripken Jr.'s career Ground into Double Play (GIDP) progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Cal Ripken Jr.'s career Ground into Double Play (GIDP) at the end of that season.
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Cal Ripken Jr. Ground into Double Play (GIDP) By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Cal Ripken Jr. and related player groups by summarizing Ground into Double Play (GIDP) for each season played by Cal Ripken Jr.. 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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Cal Ripken Jr. Ground into Double Play (GIDP) Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Cal Ripken Jr. Ground into Double Play (GIDP) 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, SS, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Cal Ripken Jr. 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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