Gus Shallix Balks

Gus Shallix Career Balks Overview

During Gus Shallix's 2-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1 balks, an average of 1 balks per season. 1885 was his best season with 0 balks and his worst season was 1884 when he had 1 balks. Gus Shallix outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting Germany (2.3), Pre-Generational (1.1470588235294), Y (9.3055555555556), mlb (2.2225043643866), and RP (1.3695283338989) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A balk is an illegal move done by the pitcher immediatly before windup or during the pitching act. Most of these illegal moves involve a pitcher pretending to pitch when he has no intention of doing so, this would be done to try and trick a baserunner into leaving the base and becoming an easy out. Balks are only called when there are runners on base, when a pitcher has been assesed a balk all baserunners are awarded the next base, this includes runners on third who would then score a run since he was awareded home plate. The active batter is not given any bases and their plate apperance continues with no change to the count. Generally, for Balks, lower is better. (Source)

Gus Shallix Lifetime Balks

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Gus Shallix Balks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Gus Shallix's yearly Balks for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Gus Shallix Cumulative Balks by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Gus Shallix's career Balks progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Gus Shallix's career Balks at the end of that season.

Gus Shallix Balks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Gus Shallix and related player groups by summarizing Balks for each season played by Gus Shallix. 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!

Gus Shallix Balks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Gus Shallix Balks 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, RP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Gus Shallix 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.