Max Scherzer Career ERA Overview

Max Scherzer's ERA was 3.11 for his 15-year Major League Baseball career. 2022 was his best season when his ERA was 2.29 and his worst season was 2011 when his ERA was 4.43. Max Scherzer is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (4.3461226399548), Millenial (4.4765613485252), mlb (4.3614031148122), SP (4.3392668544321), and Y (3.0750522047158) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Earned run average (ERA) is a metric that shows how many earned runs on average, a pitcher or team's pitcher, gives up over the course of nine innings. It is calculated by dividing earned runs by innings pitched then multiplying the result by 9. Generally, for ERA, lower is better. (Source)

Max Scherzer Lifetime ERA and Similar Stats

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Season Avg.3.142.943
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Max Scherzer ERA By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Max Scherzer's yearly ERA 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.
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Max Scherzer ERA By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Max Scherzer's career ERA changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career ERA Max Scherzer had at that season in his career.
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Max Scherzer ERA By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Max Scherzer and related player groups by summarizing ERA for each season played by Max Scherzer. 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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Max Scherzer ERA Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Max Scherzer ERA 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 Max Scherzer 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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