Kerry Wood Strikeouts

Kerry Wood Career Strikeouts Overview

During Kerry Wood's 14-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1582 strikeouts, an average of 113 strikeouts per season. 2003 was his best season with 266 strikeouts and his worst season was 2012 when he had 6 strikeouts. Kerry Wood is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (348.10090556274), Gen X (381.77117263844), mlb (347.409776226), SP (475.04233750745), and Y (2134.7777777778) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts are outs recorded by the pitcher or team's pitchers when the player at bat accumulates 3 strikes before putting the ball in play, is walked, or hit by a pitch. Strikes are accumlated by swinging and missing a pitch, not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or by hitting a foul ball. Foul ball strkes however are not counted for a third strike unless the foul results from a bunt or is a foul tip third strike caught by the catcher. Generally, for Strikeouts, higher is better. (Source)

Kerry Wood Lifetime Strikeouts and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Strikeouts for Kerry Wood

	Kerry Wood Strikeouts	Kerry Wood Strikeouts Per 9 Innings	Kerry Wood Strikeouts Per Game
Career	1582	10.32	3.55
Season Avg.	113	9.65	4.07
162 Game Avg.	241	10.32	3.55
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Kerry Wood Strikeouts By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Kerry Wood's yearly Strikeouts 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.

Kerry Wood Cumulative Strikeouts by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Kerry Wood's career Strikeouts progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Kerry Wood's career Strikeouts at the end of that season.

Kerry Wood Strikeouts By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Kerry Wood and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts for each season played by Kerry Wood. 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!

Kerry Wood Strikeouts Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Kerry Wood Strikeouts 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 Kerry Wood 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.