Johnny Bench Batting Average

Johnny Bench Career Batting Average Overview

Johnny Bench's Batting Average was 0.267 for his 17-year Major League Baseball career. 1981 was his best season when his Batting Average was 0.309 and his worst season was 1967 when his Batting Average was 0.163. Johnny Bench is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by C (0.237493), Y (0.298075), USA (0.250558), Baby Boomers (0.247824), and mlb (0.250237) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batting average (BA) is the number of hits divided by the number of at bats of a player over a defined period of time, typically a season or career. Generally, for Batting Average, higher is better. (Source)

Johnny Bench Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batting Average for Johnny Bench

	Johnny Bench Batting Average	Johnny Bench Plate Appearances	Johnny Bench At Bats	Johnny Bench BABIP
Career	0.267	8669	7658	0.273
Season Avg.	0.263	510	450	0.269
162 Game Avg.	0.267	651	575	0.273
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Johnny Bench Batting Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Johnny Bench's yearly Batting Average for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, C, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Johnny Bench Batting Average By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Johnny Bench's career Batting Average changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Batting Average Johnny Bench had at that season in his career.

Johnny Bench Batting Average By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Johnny Bench and related player groups by summarizing Batting Average for each season played by Johnny Bench. 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!

Johnny Bench Batting Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Johnny Bench Batting Average 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, C, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Johnny Bench 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.