Seasons Pitched Records and Details
What is Seasons Pitched ?
The number of year in an MLB player's career where the player had at least one offensive appearance. When used in the context of yearly statistics it's the specific year being measure, for career or all time it would refer to all years that make up the given time frame. Generally, for Seasons Pitched, higher is better. (Source)
What is a good Seasons Pitched?
What does good Seasons Pitched mean? "Good" baseball stats can be very subjective and mean different things to different people.
I have attempted to quantify good and bad by taking season and career stats for MLB pitchers with a minimum number
of pitched outs. In this case 100 for career and 50 for a season. To find good and bad within this cohort of players I calculated the first and third quartiles,
anything between these quartiles I consider average. This makes up the middle 50% of players. In an example
where higher is better for a stat, below the first quartile (bottom 25% of players) would be bad and above the 3rd
quartile (top 25% of players) would be good. For stats where lower is better, flip around good and bad.
Career, Season, and Season Average Seasons Pitched Records
For my hot take on Seasons Pitched records most of the same rules apply from the first section. To be considered for my
prestigious lists the player must meet a certain threshold of pitched outs. Since this is a Pitching stat to be considered
for the career list the player must have over 100 pitched outs, for a season consideration the player must have
had 75 pitched outs. Additionally, the player's final game must have been after 1899.
Distribution of Career Seasons Pitched by Player Generation
Distribution of Season Seasons Pitched by Player Generation
Distribution of Career Seasons Pitched by Player Position
Distribution of Season Seasons Pitched by Player Position