Gary Sheffield Plate Appearances

Gary Sheffield Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Gary Sheffield's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 10947 plate appearances, an average of 498 plate appearances per season. 2004 was his best season with 684 plate appearances and his worst season was 1988 when he had 89 plate appearances. Gary Sheffield outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2449.99), Gen X (2727.36), Y (8622.88), mlb (2441.64), and RF (2844.16) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

Gary Sheffield Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Gary Sheffield

	Gary Sheffield Plate Appearances
Career	10947
Season Avg.	498
162 Game Avg.	688
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Gary Sheffield Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Gary Sheffield's yearly Plate Appearances 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.

Gary Sheffield Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Gary Sheffield's career Plate Appearances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Gary Sheffield's career Plate Appearances at the end of that season.

Gary Sheffield Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Gary Sheffield and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances 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!

Gary Sheffield Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Gary Sheffield Plate Appearances 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.