Gary Sheffield Starts as Fielder

Gary Sheffield Career Starts as Fielder Overview

During Gary Sheffield's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 2205 starts as fielder, an average of 100.23 starts as fielder per season. 1996 was his best season with 160 starts as fielder and his worst season was 2008 when he had 6 starts as fielder. Gary Sheffield outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (385.376), Gen X (451.782), Y (1358.91), mlb (389.973), and RF (453.102) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

The number of games a player had where he played a defensive position from the start of game, before the start of the first batters plate appearance. Generally, for Starts as Fielder, higher is better. (Source)

Gary Sheffield Lifetime Starts as Fielder

Stats similar to Starts as Fielder for Gary Sheffield

	Gary Sheffield Starts as Fielder
Career	2205
Season Avg.	100.23
162 Game Avg.	161.49
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Gary Sheffield Starts as Fielder By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Gary Sheffield's yearly Starts as Fielder 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 Starts as Fielder by Year

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

Gary Sheffield Starts as Fielder By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Gary Sheffield and related player groups by summarizing Starts as Fielder 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 Starts as Fielder Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Gary Sheffield Starts as Fielder 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.