Red Ruffing Career Starts Overview

During Red Ruffing's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 536 starts, an average of 24 starts per season. 1928 was his best season with 34 starts and his worst season was 1924 when he had 2 starts. Red Ruffing outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (68.878580669008), The Greatest Generation (72.737456242707), Y (437.61111111111), mlb (66.111093477226), and SP (113.75581395349) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The number of games a pitcher appeared as the first pitcher for thier team in a game. Generally, for Starts, higher is better. (Source)

Red Ruffing Lifetime Starts

Stats similar to Starts for Red Ruffing
Red Ruffing
Starts
Career536
Season Avg.24
162 Game Avg.58
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Red Ruffing Starts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Red Ruffing's yearly Starts 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.
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Red Ruffing Cumulative Starts by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Red Ruffing's career Starts progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Red Ruffing's career Starts at the end of that season.
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Red Ruffing Starts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Red Ruffing and related player groups by summarizing Starts 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!
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Red Ruffing Starts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Red Ruffing Starts 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.
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