Mariano Rivera Intentional Walks

Mariano Rivera Career Intentional Walks Overview

During Mariano Rivera's 19-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 41 intentional walks, an average of 2 intentional walks per season. 1995 was his best season with 0 intentional walks and his worst season was 1997 when he had 6 intentional walks. Mariano Rivera is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by Panama (12.631578947368), Gen X (15.855863192182), mlb (12.111569592128), RP (12.351204614863), and Y (42.444444444444) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Intentional walks are walks issued by pitchers to avoid risking a strong hitter from having a damaging at bat. Historically a pitcher would need to throw 4 intentional balls which are pitches out of the strike zone, however newer rules removes this requirement and batters can be walked without the pitches using a signal to the upmire. Generally, for Intentional Walks, lower is better. (Source)

Mariano Rivera Lifetime Intentional Walks

Stats similar to Intentional Walks for Mariano Rivera

	Mariano Rivera Intentional Walks
Career	41
Season Avg.	2
162 Game Avg.	3
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Mariano Rivera Intentional Walks By Year Line Chart

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

Mariano Rivera Cumulative Intentional Walks by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Mariano Rivera's career Intentional Walks progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Mariano Rivera's career Intentional Walks at the end of that season.

Mariano Rivera Intentional Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Mariano Rivera and related player groups by summarizing Intentional Walks for each season played by Mariano Rivera. 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!

Mariano Rivera Intentional Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Mariano Rivera Intentional Walks 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, RP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Mariano Rivera 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.