How Gary Sheffield's Games Started % Compares to Similar Players

Gary Sheffield posted a career Games Started % of 99.68, well above the league average of .644 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Games Started % season came in 2003, posting 100.65, well above the league average of .697 that year. The lowest point came in 1988 at 95.83, well above the league average of .739 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from 100.0 in 2007 to 100.0 in 2008 and 98.41 in 2009. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. One of the more consistent Games Started % producers of his era, the career line shows well-above-average output with little season-to-season variance across 21 seasons.

Gary Sheffield Lifetime Games Started %

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Gary Sheffield
Games Started %
Career99.68
Season Avg.99.68
162 Game Avg.99.68
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Gary Sheffield Games Started % Per Season

Gary Sheffield's Games Started % for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, RF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Gary Sheffield Games Started % per season line chart

Gary Sheffield Games Started % by Team

Gary Sheffield's career Games Started % totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Gary Sheffield career Games Started % by team bar chart

Gary Sheffield Games Started % Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Gary Sheffield's career Games Started % shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Gary Sheffield Games Started % year-over-year waterfall chart

Gary Sheffield Games Started % Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Gary Sheffield's seasonal Games Started % alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Gary Sheffield Games Started % distribution box chart versus comparable players

Gary Sheffield Games Started % — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Gary Sheffield's MLB career with Games Started % alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Gary Sheffield Games Started % season-by-season breakdown table