How Mariano Rivera's Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Compares to Similar Players

Mariano Rivera posted a career Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings of .500, well below the relief pitcher average of .823 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His strongest Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings season came in 2012, posting .000, well below the relief pitcher average of .946 that year. The highest point came in 1995 at 1.48, well above the relief pitcher average of 1.01 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .440 in 2011 to .000 in 2012 and .840 in 2013. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings profile — ranging from .000 to 1.48 — though the career average remained well above league norms.

Mariano Rivera Lifetime Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings

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Mariano Rivera Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Per Season

Mariano Rivera's Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, RP, Central America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
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Mariano Rivera Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings by Team

Mariano Rivera's career Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
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Mariano Rivera Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Mariano Rivera's career Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Mariano Rivera Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings year-over-year waterfall chart

Mariano Rivera Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Mariano Rivera's seasonal Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Mariano Rivera Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings distribution box chart versus comparable players

Mariano Rivera Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Mariano Rivera's MLB career with Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Mariano Rivera Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings season-by-season breakdown table