Don Sutton Career Putouts Overview

During Don Sutton's 23-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 334 putouts, an average of 14.52 putouts per season. 1971 was his best season with 27 putouts and his worst season was 1976 when he had 5 putouts. Don Sutton is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (54.3174), USA (1532.15), The Silent Generation (1661.01), Y (6114.35), and mlb (1481.83) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Putouts are awarded to defensive players who meet one of several criteria when an out is recorded by their team. These criteria include tagging a runner out, catching a batted or thrown ball and tagging a base for an out, catching a fly ball, catching a third strike, or being the closest player to a runner called out for interference. Generally, for Putouts, higher is better. (Source)

Don Sutton Lifetime Putouts

Stats similar to Putouts for Don Sutton
Don Sutton
Putouts
Career334
Season Avg.14.52
162 Game Avg.69.91
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Don Sutton Putouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Don Sutton's yearly Putouts 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.
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Don Sutton Cumulative Putouts by Year

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

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

This table shows Don Sutton Putouts 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.
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