How Gary Sheffield's Total Average Compares to Similar Players
Gary Sheffield posted a career Total Average of .961, well above the league average of .673 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Total Average season came in 1995, posting 1.34, well above the league average of .709 that year. The lowest point came in 1991 at .557, below the league average of .652 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .907 in 2007 to .693 in 2008 and .805 in 2009. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well above league norms across 21 seasons.
Gary Sheffield Lifetime Total Average
Stats similar to Total Average for Gary Sheffield
| Gary Sheffield
Total Average |
|---|
| Career | 0.961 |
| Season Avg. | 0.961 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.961 |
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Gary Sheffield Total Average Per Season
Gary Sheffield's Total Average 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 Total Average by Team
Gary Sheffield's career Total Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Gary Sheffield Total Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Gary Sheffield's career Total Average 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 Total Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Gary Sheffield's seasonal Total Average 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 Total Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Gary Sheffield's MLB career with Total Average 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.
