How Cotton Williams's Strikeouts Per 9 Innings Compares to Similar Players

Cotton Williams posted a career Strikeouts Per 9 Innings of 4.52, below the starting pitcher average of 5.11 — a level that fell short of typical league production. His best Strikeouts Per 9 Innings season came in 1947, posting 5.08. The lowest point came in 1946 at 2.36. The Strikeouts Per 9 Innings trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from 2.36 in 1946 to 5.08 in 1947 and 5.0 in 1948. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average fell below league norms across 5 seasons.

Cotton Williams Lifetime Strikeouts Per 9 Innings

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Cotton Williams Strikeouts Per 9 Innings Per Season

Cotton Williams's Strikeouts Per 9 Innings for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — Negro National League II, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Cotton Williams Strikeouts Per 9 Innings per season line chart

Cotton Williams Strikeouts Per 9 Innings by Team

Cotton Williams's career Strikeouts Per 9 Innings totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Cotton Williams career Strikeouts Per 9 Innings by team bar chart

Cotton Williams Strikeouts Per 9 Innings Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Cotton Williams's career Strikeouts Per 9 Innings shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Cotton Williams Strikeouts Per 9 Innings year-over-year waterfall chart

Cotton Williams Strikeouts Per 9 Innings Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Cotton Williams's seasonal Strikeouts Per 9 Innings alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Cotton Williams Strikeouts Per 9 Innings distribution box chart versus comparable players

Cotton Williams Strikeouts Per 9 Innings — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Cotton Williams's MLB career with Strikeouts Per 9 Innings alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Cotton Williams Strikeouts Per 9 Innings season-by-season breakdown table