Red Ruffing Earned Runs

Red Ruffing Career Earned Runs Overview

During Red Ruffing's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1833 earned runs, an average of 83 earned runs per season. 1946 was his best season with 12 earned runs and his worst season was 1929 when he had 132 earned runs. Red Ruffing underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (260.02402513399), The Greatest Generation (287.63593932322), Y (1220.25), mlb (252.43564513569), and SP (361.29457364341) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

An earned run is run scored by the opposing team that is considered to be a direct result of the pitchers actions. For example a home run would be counted as an earned run since the pitcher would be directly responsible for the hit whereas a player scoring because of a position player's defensive error, or had advanced bases because of a position player's defenisve error allowing them to score later is not an earned run Generally, for Earned Runs, lower is better. (Source)

Red Ruffing Lifetime Earned Runs

Stats similar to Earned Runs for Red Ruffing

	Red Ruffing Earned Runs
Career	1833
Season Avg.	83
162 Game Avg.	200
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Red Ruffing Earned Runs By Year Line Chart

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

Red Ruffing Cumulative Earned Runs by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Red Ruffing's career Earned Runs progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Red Ruffing's career Earned Runs at the end of that season.

Red Ruffing Earned Runs By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Red Ruffing and related player groups by summarizing Earned Runs for each season played by Red Ruffing. 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!

Red Ruffing Earned Runs Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Red Ruffing Earned Runs 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Red Ruffing 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.