Gary Sheffield Career Walks Overview

During Gary Sheffield's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1475 walks, an average of 67 walks per season. 1996 was his best season with 142 walks and his worst season was 1988 when he had 7 walks. Gary Sheffield outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (215.948), Gen X (238.899), Y (870.83), mlb (211.057), and RF (260.468) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Walks or base on balls (BB) is the total number of times a player is awarded first base because the pitcher issued 4 balls before the player puts the ball is put in play, is hit by a pitch, or strikes out. This is measure over a given time period, for example season or career. Generally, for Walks, higher is better. (Source)

Gary Sheffield Lifetime Walks and Similar Stats

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Season Avg.6761.23
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Gary Sheffield Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Gary Sheffield's yearly Walks for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, 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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Gary Sheffield Cumulative Walks by Year

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Gary Sheffield and related player groups by summarizing Walks for each season played by Gary Sheffield. 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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Gary Sheffield Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Gary Sheffield Walks 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, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Gary Sheffield 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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