How Billy Beane's BABIP Compares to Similar Players

Billy Beane posted a career BABIP of .288, near the league average of .289 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best BABIP season came in 1987, posting .444, well above the league average of .288 that year. The lowest point came in 1984 at .125, well below the league average of .286 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .444 in 1987 to .250 in 1988 and .284 in 1989. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the BABIP profile — ranging from .125 to .444 — though the career average tracked near league norms.

Billy Beane Lifetime BABIP

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Billy Beane BABIP Per Season

Billy Beane's BABIP for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, LF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Billy Beane BABIP per season line chart

Billy Beane BABIP by Team

Billy Beane's career BABIP totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Billy Beane career BABIP by team bar chart

Billy Beane BABIP Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Billy Beane's career BABIP shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Billy Beane BABIP year-over-year waterfall chart

Billy Beane BABIP Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Billy Beane's seasonal BABIP alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Billy Beane BABIP distribution box chart versus comparable players

Billy Beane BABIP — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Billy Beane's MLB career with BABIP alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Billy Beane BABIP season-by-season breakdown table