How Maury Wills's Plate Appearances per Strikeout Compares to Similar Players
Maury Wills posted a career Plate Appearances per Strikeout of 12.14, well above the league average of 7.35 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Plate Appearances per Strikeout season came in 1970, posting 17.0, well above the league average of 6.91 that year. The lowest point came in 1972 at 8.44, well above the league average of 7.01 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from 17.0 in 1970 to 14.86 in 1971 and 8.44 in 1972. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well above league norms across 14 seasons.
Maury Wills Lifetime Plate Appearances per Strikeout
Stats similar to Plate Appearances per Strikeout for Maury Wills
| Maury Wills
Plate Appearances per Strikeout |
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| Career | 12.14 |
| Season Avg. | 12.14 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 12.14 |
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Maury Wills Plate Appearances per Strikeout Per Season
Maury Wills's Plate Appearances per Strikeout for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, SS, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Maury Wills Plate Appearances per Strikeout by Team
Maury Wills's career Plate Appearances per Strikeout totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Maury Wills Plate Appearances per Strikeout Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Maury Wills's career Plate Appearances per Strikeout 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.
Maury Wills Plate Appearances per Strikeout Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Maury Wills's seasonal Plate Appearances per Strikeout 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.
Maury Wills Plate Appearances per Strikeout — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Maury Wills's MLB career with Plate Appearances per Strikeout 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.
