Nolan Ryan Plate Appearances

Nolan Ryan Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Nolan Ryan's 27-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 957 plate appearances, an average of 35 plate appearances per season. 1972 was his best season with 99 plate appearances and his worst season was 1966 when he had 0 plate appearances. Nolan Ryan is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (493.615), USA (2449.99), Baby Boomers (2842.73), Y (8622.88), and mlb (2441.64) 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)

Nolan Ryan Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Nolan Ryan

	Nolan Ryan Plate Appearances
Career	957
Season Avg.	35
162 Game Avg.	192
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Nolan Ryan Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Nolan Ryan'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, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Nolan Ryan Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

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

Nolan Ryan Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Nolan Ryan and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by Nolan Ryan. 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!

Nolan Ryan Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Nolan Ryan 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Nolan Ryan 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.