Sammy Sosa Career Isolated Power Overview

Sammy Sosa's Isolated Power was 0.261 for his 18-year Major League Baseball career. 2001 was his best season when his Isolated Power was 0.409 and his worst season was 1989 when his Isolated Power was 0.109. Sammy Sosa outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting D.R. (0.128056), Gen X (0.13805), Y (0.158287), mlb (0.115364), and RF (0.13673) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Isolated power (ISO) is a metric used to quantify a player's raw hitting power and is calcuated by subtracting batting average from slugging percentage. Generally, for Isolated Power, higher is better. (Source)

Sammy Sosa Lifetime Isolated Power

Stats similar to Isolated Power for Sammy Sosa
Sammy Sosa
Isolated Power
Career0.261
Season Avg.0.244
162 Game Avg.0.261
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Sammy Sosa Isolated Power By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Sammy Sosa's yearly Isolated Power 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.
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Sammy Sosa Isolated Power By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Sammy Sosa's career Isolated Power changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Isolated Power Sammy Sosa had at that season in his career.
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Sammy Sosa Isolated Power By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Sammy Sosa and related player groups by summarizing Isolated Power 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!
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Sammy Sosa Isolated Power Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Sammy Sosa Isolated Power 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.
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