Sammy Sosa Walks

Sammy Sosa Career Walks Overview

During Sammy Sosa's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 929 walks, an average of 52 walks per season. 2001 was his best season with 116 walks and his worst season was 1989 when he had 11 walks. Sammy Sosa is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by D.R. (183.182), Gen X (238.899), mlb (211.057), RF (260.468), and Y (870.83) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Walks or base on balls (BB) is the total number of times a player is awarded first base because the pitcher issued 4 balls before the player puts the ball is put in play, is hit by a pitch, or strikes out. This is measure over a given time period, for example season or career. Generally, for Walks, higher is better. (Source)

Sammy Sosa Lifetime Walks and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Walks for Sammy Sosa

	Sammy Sosa Walks	Sammy Sosa Intentional Walks	Sammy Sosa Walks Per Strikeout
Career	929	154	0.4
Season Avg.	52	9	0.38
162 Game Avg.	64	11	0.4
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Sammy Sosa Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Sammy Sosa's yearly Walks 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.

Sammy Sosa Cumulative Walks by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Sammy Sosa's career Walks progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Sammy Sosa's career Walks at the end of that season.

Sammy Sosa Walks By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Sammy Sosa and related player groups by summarizing Walks for each season played by Sammy Sosa. 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!

Sammy Sosa Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Sammy Sosa Walks 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 Sammy Sosa 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.