Nolan Ryan Wild Pitches

Nolan Ryan Career Wild Pitches Overview

During Nolan Ryan's 27-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 277 wild pitches, an average of 10 wild pitches per season. 1966 was his best season with 1 wild pitches and his worst season was 1977 when he had 21 wild pitches. Nolan Ryan underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (17.529661800037), Baby Boomers (22.055924170616), Y (80), mlb (17.356133946993), and SP (22.24358974359) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A wild pitch is charged to a pitcher when a pitch is poorly thrown, not easily handled by the catcher, and allows the hitter or a baserunner to take a base they wouldn't have otherwise been entitled too. Generally, for Wild Pitches, lower is better. (Source)

Nolan Ryan Lifetime Wild Pitches

Stats similar to Wild Pitches for Nolan Ryan

	Nolan Ryan Wild Pitches
Career	277
Season Avg.	10
162 Game Avg.	23
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Nolan Ryan Wild Pitches By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Nolan Ryan's yearly Wild Pitches 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 Wild Pitches by Year

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

Nolan Ryan Wild Pitches By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Nolan Ryan Wild Pitches 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.