Jim Abbott Career BABIP Overview

Jim Abbott's BABIP was 0.182 for his 10-year Major League Baseball career. 1999 was his best season when his BABIP was 0.182 and his worst season was 1989 when his BABIP was 0. Jim Abbott underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (0.281074), Gen X (0.292619), Y (0.30867), mlb (0.281966), and SP (0.226088) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is a metric designed to measure the number of balls put in play by a player or team over a defined period resulted in a hit. Generally, for BABIP, higher is better. (Source)

Jim Abbott Lifetime BABIP

Stats similar to BABIP for Jim Abbott
Jim Abbott
BABIP
Career0.182
Season Avg.0.018
162 Game Avg.0.182
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Jim Abbott BABIP By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Jim Abbott's yearly BABIP 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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Jim Abbott BABIP By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Jim Abbott's career BABIP changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career BABIP Jim Abbott had at that season in his career.
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Jim Abbott BABIP By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Jim Abbott and related player groups by summarizing BABIP for each season played by Jim Abbott. 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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Jim Abbott BABIP Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Jim Abbott BABIP 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 Jim Abbott 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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