Lou Whitaker Sacrifice Hit

Lou Whitaker Career Sacrifice Hit Overview

During Lou Whitaker's 19-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 89 sacrifice hit, an average of 5 sacrifice hit per season. 1979 was his best season with 14 sacrifice hit and his worst season was 1986 when he had 0 sacrifice hit. Lou Whitaker is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (28.8765), Baby Boomers (21.7974), mlb (27.1854), 2B (37.9842), and Y (97.6136) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice hit (SH), often referred to a sacrifice bunt, is a ball put into play in the infield allowing a runner on the bases to advance one or more bases but results in the hitter being called out at or before first base. This is often an done intentionally to move runners forward with a weaker hitter at the plate, for example a pitcher. Generally, for Sacrifice Hit, higher is better. (Source)

Lou Whitaker Lifetime Sacrifice Hit and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Sacrifice Hit for Lou Whitaker

	Lou Whitaker Sacrifice Hit	Lou Whitaker Sacrifice Fly
Career	89	91
Season Avg.	5	5
162 Game Avg.	6	6
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Lou Whitaker Sacrifice Hit By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lou Whitaker's yearly Sacrifice Hit 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 Sacrifice Hit by Year

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

Lou Whitaker Sacrifice Hit By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lou Whitaker and related player groups by summarizing Sacrifice Hit 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 Sacrifice Hit Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lou Whitaker Sacrifice Hit 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.