Nolan Ryan Sacrifice Flies

Nolan Ryan Career Sacrifice Flies Overview

During Nolan Ryan's 27-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 140 sacrifice flies, an average of 5 sacrifice flies per season. 1966 was his best season with 0 sacrifice flies and his worst season was 1978 when he had 14 sacrifice flies. Nolan Ryan underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (9.8055812234337), Baby Boomers (22.107109004739), Y (31), mlb (10.147913029678), and SP (12.502087060227) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice fly is a ball put into play in the outfield that is caught and results in an out for the hitter, however one or more runners on the bases are able to advance one or more bases after the ball is caught often because of hit placement. A pitcher is charged with a sacrifice fly when it happens a plate appearance for which they are pitching. Generally, for Sacrifice Flies, lower is better. (Source)

Nolan Ryan Lifetime Sacrifice Flies

Stats similar to Sacrifice Flies for Nolan Ryan

	Nolan Ryan Sacrifice Flies
Career	140
Season Avg.	5
162 Game Avg.	12
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Nolan Ryan Sacrifice Flies By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Nolan Ryan's yearly Sacrifice Flies 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 Sacrifice Flies by Year

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

Nolan Ryan Sacrifice Flies By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Nolan Ryan and related player groups by summarizing Sacrifice Flies 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 Sacrifice Flies Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Nolan Ryan Sacrifice Flies 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.