Max Scherzer Career Strikeouts Overview

During Max Scherzer's 15-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 161 strikeouts, an average of 11 strikeouts per season. 2010 was his best season with 0 strikeouts and his worst season was 2016 when he had 30 strikeouts. Max Scherzer is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (121.538), USA (305.465), Millenial (379.758), Y (769.398), and mlb (314.894) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts (K) are outs recorded because the player at bat accumulates 3 strikes before putting the ball in play, is walked, or hit by a pitch. Strikes are accumlated by swinging and missing a pitch, not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or by hitting a foul ball. Foul ball strkes however are not counted for a third strike unless the foul results from a bunt or is a foul tip caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts, lower is better. (Source)

Max Scherzer Lifetime Strikeouts and Similar Stats

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Plate Appearance per Strikout
Career1613.29
Season Avg.112.41
162 Game Avg.603.29
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Max Scherzer Strikeouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Max Scherzer's yearly Strikeouts 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 Cumulative Strikeouts by Year

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Max Scherzer and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts 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 Strikeouts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Max Scherzer Strikeouts 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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