Babe Ruth Career Runs Overview

During Babe Ruth's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 2174 runs, an average of 99 runs per season. 1921 was his best season with 177 runs and his worst season was 1914 when he had 1 runs. Babe Ruth outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (294.038), Y (1240.49), mlb (292.179), and RF (365.495) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Runs (R) are the total number of times a player or group of players on a team safely crosses the plate, measured over a given time period. Generally, for Runs, higher is better. (Source)

Babe Ruth Lifetime Runs and Similar Stats

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Career21742696.536772621.55
Season Avg.99123.08167119.29
162 Game Avg.141174.52238169.67
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Babe Ruth Runs By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly Runs 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.
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Babe Ruth Cumulative Runs by Year

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

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

This table shows Babe Ruth Runs 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.
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