Tom Seaver Career ERA Overview

Tom Seaver's ERA was 2.86 for his 20-year Major League Baseball career. 1971 was his best season when his ERA was 1.76 and his worst season was 1982 when his ERA was 5.5. Tom Seaver is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (4.3461226399548), The Silent Generation (4.0391094605497), 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)

Tom Seaver Lifetime ERA and Similar Stats

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Career2.862.673.43
Season Avg.32.833.54
162 Game Avg.2.862.673.43
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Tom Seaver ERA By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Tom Seaver'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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Tom Seaver ERA By Year Change

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

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

This table shows Tom Seaver 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 Tom Seaver 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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