Sammy Sosa Intentional Walks

Sammy Sosa Career Intentional Walks Overview

During Sammy Sosa's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 154 intentional walks, an average of 9 intentional walks per season. 2001 was his best season with 37 intentional walks and his worst season was 1992 when he had 1 intentional walks. Sammy Sosa outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting D.R. (17.1055), Gen X (18.9582), Y (53.733), mlb (12.4524), and RF (16.0459) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Intentional walks (IBB) are walks issued to hitters to avoid risking a strong hitter from having a damaging at bat. Historically a pitcher would need to throw 4 intentional balls, however newer rules removes this requirement and batters can be walked without the pitches using a signal to the upmire. Generally, for Intentional Walks, higher is better. (Source)

Sammy Sosa Lifetime Intentional Walks

Stats similar to Intentional Walks for Sammy Sosa

	Sammy Sosa Intentional Walks
Career	154
Season Avg.	9
162 Game Avg.	11
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Sammy Sosa Intentional Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Sammy Sosa's yearly Intentional 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 Intentional Walks by Year

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

Sammy Sosa Intentional Walks By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Sammy Sosa Intentional 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.