Red Ruffing Strikeouts

Red Ruffing Career Strikeouts Overview

During Red Ruffing's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 266 strikeouts, an average of 12 strikeouts per season. 1924 was his best season with 1 strikeouts and his worst season was 1937 when he had 24 strikeouts. Red Ruffing is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by The Greatest Generation (192.236), SP (121.538), USA (305.465), Y (769.398), and mlb (314.894) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts (K) are outs recorded because the player at bat accumulates 3 strikes before putting the ball in play, is walked, or hit by a pitch. Strikes are accumlated by swinging and missing a pitch, not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or by hitting a foul ball. Foul ball strkes however are not counted for a third strike unless the foul results from a bunt or is a foul tip caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts, lower is better. (Source)

Red Ruffing Lifetime Strikeouts and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Strikeouts for Red Ruffing

	Red Ruffing Strikeouts	Red Ruffing Plate Appearance per Strikout
Career	266	7.83
Season Avg.	12	8.33
162 Game Avg.	49	7.83
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Red Ruffing Strikeouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Red Ruffing's yearly Strikeouts 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 Strikeouts by Year

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

Red Ruffing Strikeouts By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Red Ruffing Strikeouts 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.