Sammy Sosa Base Runs

Sammy Sosa Career Base Runs Overview

During Sammy Sosa's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1619.91 base runs, an average of 90.77 base runs per season. 2001 was his best season with 182.66 base runs and his worst season was 1989 when he had 19.77 base runs. Sammy Sosa outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting D.R. (305.911), Gen X (356.954), Y (1362.19), mlb (303.226), and RF (390.857) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Base runs (BR) is a metric devised to try and estimate the number of runs a player or team should have created given their component offensive statistics. Generally, for Base Runs, higher is better. (Source)

Sammy Sosa Lifetime Base Runs

Stats similar to Base Runs for Sammy Sosa

	Sammy Sosa Base Runs
Career	1619.91
Season Avg.	90.77
162 Game Avg.	111.48
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Sammy Sosa Base Runs By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Sammy Sosa's yearly Base Runs 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 Base Runs by Year

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

Sammy Sosa Base Runs By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Sammy Sosa and related player groups by summarizing Base Runs 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 Base Runs Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Sammy Sosa Base Runs 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.