Cy Young Career Base Runs Overview

During Cy Young's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 204.03 base runs, an average of 9.55 base runs per season. 1896 was his best season with 22.96 base runs and his worst season was 1911 when he had 0.19 base runs. Cy Young is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (22.1106), USA (305.439), Pre-Generational (331.648), Y (1362.19), and mlb (303.226) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Base runs (BR) is a metric devised to try and estimate the number of runs a player or team should have created given their component offensive statistics. Generally, for Base Runs, higher is better. (Source)

Cy Young Lifetime Base Runs

Stats similar to Base Runs for Cy Young
Cy Young
Base Runs
Career204.03
Season Avg.9.55
162 Game Avg.36.01
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Cy Young Base Runs By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cy Young's yearly Base Runs 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.
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Cy Young Cumulative Base Runs by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Cy Young's career Base Runs progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Cy Young's career Base Runs at the end of that season.
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Cy Young Base Runs By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Cy Young and related player groups by summarizing Base Runs 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!
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Cy Young Base Runs Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Cy Young Base Runs 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.
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