Don Sutton Home Runs

Don Sutton Career Home Runs Overview

During Don Sutton's 23-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 472 home runs, an average of 21 home runs per season. 1968 was his best season with 6 home runs and his worst season was 1970 when he had 38 home runs. Don Sutton underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (49.06283496581), The Silent Generation (70.90303030303), Y (209.09722222222), mlb (49.06951277575), and SP (69.049194991056) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Home runs allowed is the number of home runs given up by a pitcher or a team's pitchers over a defined period of time. A home run is attributed to a pitcher when that batter makes it safeley home in the same play where the ball was put into play and there were no fielding errors. Most commonly this is when a player hits the ball over the outfield fence in fair territory but on some occasions a well placed hit into the outfield can result in an in the park home run. Generally, for Home Runs, lower is better. (Source)

Don Sutton Lifetime Home Runs and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Home Runs for Don Sutton

	Don Sutton Home Runs	Don Sutton Home Runs Allowed Per 9 Innings	Don Sutton Home Runs Allowed per Game
Career	472	0.8	0.61
Season Avg.	21	0.81	0.6
162 Game Avg.	41	0.8	0.61
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Don Sutton Home Runs By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Don Sutton's yearly Home Runs 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 Home Runs by Year

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

Don Sutton Home Runs By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Don Sutton and related player groups by summarizing Home Runs 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 Home Runs Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Don Sutton Home 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, 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.