Lou Whitaker Plate Appearances

Lou Whitaker Career Plate Appearances Overview

During Lou Whitaker's 19-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 9967 plate appearances, an average of 525 plate appearances per season. 1983 was his best season with 720 plate appearances and his worst season was 1977 when he had 37 plate appearances. Lou Whitaker outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2449.99), Baby Boomers (2842.73), Y (8622.88), mlb (2441.64), and 2B (2490.43) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A player is credited with a plate apperance (PA) when he completes a turn batting and that turn ends with the player either reaching base or recording an out. Generally, for Plate Appearances, higher is better. (Source)

Lou Whitaker Lifetime Plate Appearances

Stats similar to Plate Appearances for Lou Whitaker

	Lou Whitaker Plate Appearances
Career	9967
Season Avg.	525
162 Game Avg.	676
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Lou Whitaker Plate Appearances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lou Whitaker's yearly Plate Appearances for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 2B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Lou Whitaker Cumulative Plate Appearances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Lou Whitaker's career Plate Appearances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Lou Whitaker's career Plate Appearances at the end of that season.

Lou Whitaker Plate Appearances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lou Whitaker and related player groups by summarizing Plate Appearances for each season played by Lou Whitaker. 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!

Lou Whitaker Plate Appearances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lou Whitaker Plate Appearances 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, 2B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Lou Whitaker 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.