Fernando Valenzuela Career Range Factor Overview

Fernando Valenzuela's Range Factor was 1.732 for his 17-year Major League Baseball career. 1986 was his best season when his Range Factor was 2.235 and his worst season was 1980 when his Range Factor was 0.3. Fernando Valenzuela is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (1.0162), Mexico (3.45776), Baby Boomers (3.47174), Y (4.21525), and mlb (3.60579) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Range factor is a metric that shows how often a defensive player records an putout or assist per innings played. It is calculated by dividing chances accepted by innings played by a player or team over a given period of time Generally, for Range Factor, higher is better. (Source)

Fernando Valenzuela Lifetime Range Factor

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Fernando Valenzuela
Range Factor
Career1.732
Season Avg.1.732
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Fernando Valenzuela Range Factor By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Fernando Valenzuela's yearly Range Factor 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 Range Factor By Year Change

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Fernando Valenzuela and related player groups by summarizing Range Factor 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 Range Factor Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Fernando Valenzuela Range Factor 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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