Cy Young Batters Faced

Cy Young Career Batters Faced Overview

During Cy Young's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 29579 batters faced, an average of 1345 batters faced per season. 1891 was his best season with 1848 batters faced and his worst season was 1911 when he had 537 batters faced. Cy Young outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2595.9271853631), Pre-Generational (4072.9150326797), Y (14857.652777778), mlb (2506.629423901), and SP (3599.0649970185) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batters faced is the number of hitters that have a plate appearance against a pitcher or team's pitchers over a given period of time. Generally, for Batters Faced, higher is better. (Source)

Cy Young Lifetime Batters Faced and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batters Faced for Cy Young

	Cy Young Batters Faced	Cy Young Batters Faced Per 9 Innings
Career	29579	36.19
Season Avg.	1345	36.12
162 Game Avg.	2220	36.19
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Cy Young Batters Faced By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cy Young's yearly Batters Faced 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.

Cy Young Cumulative Batters Faced by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Cy Young's career Batters Faced progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Cy Young's career Batters Faced at the end of that season.

Cy Young Batters Faced By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Cy Young and related player groups by summarizing Batters Faced for each season played by Cy Young. 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!

Cy Young Batters Faced Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Cy Young Batters Faced 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 Cy Young 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.