Babe Ruth Plate Appearances

Babe Ruth Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Babe Ruth's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 10616 plate appearances, an average of 483 plate appearances per season. 1923 was his best season with 699 plate appearances and his worst season was 1914 when he had 10 plate appearances. Babe Ruth outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2449.99), The Lost Generation (2240.59), Y (8622.88), mlb (2441.64), and RF (2844.16) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

Babe Ruth Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Babe Ruth

	Babe Ruth Plate Appearances
Career	10616
Season Avg.	483
162 Game Avg.	687
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Babe Ruth Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly Plate Appearances 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 Plate Appearances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Babe Ruth's career Plate Appearances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Babe Ruth's career Plate Appearances at the end of that season.

Babe Ruth Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances 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 Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Babe Ruth Plate Appearances 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.