Cy Young Career Hits Overview

During Cy Young's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 623 hits, an average of 28 hits per season. 1896 was his best season with 52 hits and his worst season was 1911 when he had 3 hits. Cy Young is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (75.6368), Y (2274.55), USA (582.834), Pre-Generational (663.476), and mlb (581.433) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Base hits (H), commonly referred to as hits, is credited to a player when they reach or pass first without the benifit of a feilding error or fielders choice during an at bat. Generally, for Hits, higher is better. (Source)

Cy Young Lifetime Hits and Similar Stats

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Season Avg.286
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Cy Young Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cy Young's yearly Hits 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 Hits by Year

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

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

This table shows Cy Young Hits 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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