How Joe Sparma's Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Compares to Similar Players

Joe Sparma posted a career Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings of .800, near the starting pitcher average of .730 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His strongest Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings season came in 1964, posting .430, well below the starting pitcher average of .858 that year. The highest point came in 1970 at 2.15, well above the starting pitcher average of .904 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .690 in 1968 to .490 in 1969 and 2.15 in 1970. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings profile — ranging from .430 to 2.15 — though the career average tracked near league norms.

Joe Sparma Lifetime Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings

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Joe Sparma Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Per Season

Joe Sparma's Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
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Joe Sparma Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings by Team

Joe Sparma's career Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
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Joe Sparma Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Joe Sparma's career Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Joe Sparma Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings year-over-year waterfall chart

Joe Sparma Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Joe Sparma's seasonal Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Joe Sparma Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings distribution box chart versus comparable players

Joe Sparma Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Joe Sparma's MLB career with Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Joe Sparma Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings season-by-season breakdown table