Chris Shelton Plate Appearances

Chris Shelton Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Chris Shelton's 5-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1044 plate appearances, an average of 209 plate appearances per season. 2005 was his best season with 431 plate appearances and his worst season was 2009 when he had 28 plate appearances. Chris Shelton underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (2449.99), Gen X (2727.36), Y (8622.88), mlb (2441.64), and 1B (3044.61) 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)

Chris Shelton Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Chris Shelton

	Chris Shelton Plate Appearances
Career	1044
Season Avg.	209
162 Game Avg.	566
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Chris Shelton Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Chris Shelton'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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Chris Shelton Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

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

Chris Shelton Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Chris Shelton and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by Chris Shelton. 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!

Chris Shelton Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Chris Shelton 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Chris Shelton 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.