John Smoltz Career Games Finished Overview

During John Smoltz's 21-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 204 games finished, an average of 10 games finished per season. 2002 was his best season with 68 games finished and his worst season was 1988 when he had 0 games finished. John Smoltz outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (46.609683977084), Gen X (56.082247557003), Y (133.29166666667), mlb (47.436756070465), and SP (26.843470483005) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Games finished is the number of games where the pitcher is the last pitcher to appear in the game for a team. These days, closers and late releivers would likely have many games finished whereas starters would have few. Generally, for Games Finished, higher is better. (Source)

John Smoltz Lifetime Games Finished

Stats similar to Games Finished for John Smoltz
John Smoltz
Games Finished
Career204
Season Avg.10
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John Smoltz Games Finished By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows John Smoltz's yearly Games Finished for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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John Smoltz Cumulative Games Finished by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how John Smoltz's career Games Finished progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents John Smoltz's career Games Finished at the end of that season.
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John Smoltz Games Finished By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between John Smoltz and related player groups by summarizing Games Finished for each season played by John Smoltz. 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!
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John Smoltz Games Finished Per Season Stats Table

This table shows John Smoltz Games Finished 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of John Smoltz 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.
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