Babe Ruth's Career and Season Batter Strikeouts Stats
Babe Ruth's Batter Strikeouts Overview
During Babe Ruth's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had
1330 batter strikeouts, an average of 60.4545 batter strikeouts per season. 1914 was his best season
with 4 batter strikeouts and his worst season was 1923 when he had
93 batter strikeouts. Babe Ruth underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating
USA (302.636), The Lost Generation (154.457), Y (747.844), mlb (311.259), and RF (384.346) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that
visualize this information in more detail.
Strikeouts 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 Batter Strikeouts, lower is better. (Source)
Strikeouts 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 Batter Strikeouts, lower is better. (Source)
Babe Ruth's Batter Strikeouts Per Season Line Chart
This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly Batter Strikeouts
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's Cumulative Batter Strikeouts by Season
This line chart attempts to show shows Babe Ruth's progression over their entire career.
Each year on the chart represents Babe Ruth's career total Batter Strikeouts at the end of that season.
Babe Ruth's Batter Strikeouts Per Season Box Chart
This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing Batter Strikeouts
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's Season Batter Strikeouts Stats Table
This table shows Babe Ruth's Batter 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,
RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each
group for each year of Babe Ruth's 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.
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.