Don Sutton Walks

Don Sutton Career Walks Overview

During Don Sutton's 23-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1343 walks, an average of 58 walks per season. 1981 was his best season with 29 walks and his worst season was 1969 when he had 91 walks. Don Sutton underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (216.9380890778), The Silent Generation (283.38787878788), Y (1019.1666666667), mlb (210.21488652595), and SP (291.93291592129) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A walk is issued by a pitcher or a team's pitchers when four balls, pitches out of the strike zone which do not hit the batter and are not swung on, before the plate appearance ends. The batter is then given first base and the plate apperance is over. Generally, for Walks, lower is better. (Source)

Don Sutton Lifetime Walks and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Walks for Don Sutton

	Don Sutton Walks	Don Sutton Intentional Walks	Don Sutton Walks Allowed Per 9 Innings
Career	1343	102	2.29
Season Avg.	58	4	2.29
162 Game Avg.	118	9	2.29
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Don Sutton Walks By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Don Sutton'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, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Don Sutton Cumulative Walks by Year

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

Don Sutton Walks By Year Box Chart

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

Don Sutton Walks Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Don Sutton 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Don Sutton 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.