Don Sutton Wild Pitches

Don Sutton Career Wild Pitches Overview

During Don Sutton's 23-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 112 wild pitches, an average of 5 wild pitches per season. 1980 was his best season with 0 wild pitches and his worst season was 1973 when he had 10 wild pitches. Don Sutton underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (17.529661800037), The Silent Generation (24.701515151515), Y (80), mlb (17.356133946993), and SP (22.24358974359) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A wild pitch is charged to a pitcher when a pitch is poorly thrown, not easily handled by the catcher, and allows the hitter or a baserunner to take a base they wouldn't have otherwise been entitled too. Generally, for Wild Pitches, lower is better. (Source)

Don Sutton Lifetime Wild Pitches

Stats similar to Wild Pitches for Don Sutton

	Don Sutton Wild Pitches
Career	112
Season Avg.	5
162 Game Avg.	10
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Don Sutton Wild Pitches By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Don Sutton's yearly Wild Pitches 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 Wild Pitches by Year

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

Don Sutton Wild Pitches By Year Box Chart

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

This table shows Don Sutton Wild Pitches 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.