Fernando Valenzuela Career Strikeouts Per Game Overview

Fernando Valenzuela's Strikeouts Per Game was 4.58 for his 17-year Major League Baseball career. 1981 was his best season when his Strikeouts Per Game was 7.2 and his worst season was 1980 when his Strikeouts Per Game was 1.6. Fernando Valenzuela outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting Mexico (2.0294963762028), Baby Boomers (1.7825101804642), Y (3.5735457380756), mlb (1.8397048214166), and SP (2.5134743194636) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts per game is a metric that shows, on average, how many strikeouts a pitcher or team's pitchers throw per game. It's caluclated by dividing strikeouts by games played for a given period. Generally, for Strikeouts Per Game, higher is better. (Source)

Fernando Valenzuela Lifetime Strikeouts Per Game

Stats similar to Strikeouts Per Game for Fernando Valenzuela
Fernando Valenzuela
Strikeouts Per Game
Career4.58
Season Avg.4.17
162 Game Avg.4.58
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Fernando Valenzuela Strikeouts Per Game By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Fernando Valenzuela's yearly Strikeouts Per Game 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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Fernando Valenzuela Strikeouts Per Game By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Fernando Valenzuela's career Strikeouts Per Game changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Strikeouts Per Game Fernando Valenzuela had at that season in his career.
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Fernando Valenzuela Strikeouts Per Game By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Fernando Valenzuela and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts Per Game for each season played by Fernando Valenzuela. 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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Fernando Valenzuela Strikeouts Per Game Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Fernando Valenzuela Strikeouts Per Game 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 Fernando Valenzuela 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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