Babe Ruth Career Double Plays Overview
During Babe Ruth's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of
86 double plays, an average of 3.91 double plays per season. 1918 was his best season
with 16 double plays and his worst season was 1914 when he had
0 double plays. Babe Ruth is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or
being beat by RF (24.4912), USA (126.165), The Lost Generation (122.655), Y (536.536), and mlb (129.291) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that
visualize this information in more detail.
Double plays are events where two separate outs are recorded on a single play and is awarded to a player who either has a putout, assits, or both during the play. Generally, for Double Plays, higher is better. (
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Babe Ruth Lifetime Double Plays
Stats similar to Double Plays for Babe Ruth
| Babe RuthDouble Plays |
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Career | 86 |
Season Avg. | 3.91 |
162 Game Avg. | 5.72 |
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Babe Ruth Double Plays By Year Line Chart
This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly Double Plays
for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison,
are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, and players from their
country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
Babe Ruth Cumulative Double Plays by Year
This line chart attempts to show show how Babe Ruth's career Double Plays progressed by year.
Each year on the chart represents Babe Ruth's career Double Plays at the end of that season.
Babe Ruth Double Plays By Year Box Chart
This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing Double Plays
for each season played by Babe Ruth. 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!
Babe Ruth Double Plays Per Season Stats Table
This table shows Babe Ruth Double Plays 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,
RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each
group for each year of Babe Ruth 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.