How Johnny Bench's Total Average Compares to Similar Players
Johnny Bench posted a career Total Average of .790, above the league average of .673 — production that kept him consistently ahead of most peers. His best Total Average season came in 1972, posting .957, well above the league average of .619 that year. The lowest point came in 1967 at .351, well below the league average of .608 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .806 in 1981 to .628 in 1982 and .645 in 1983. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained above league norms across 17 seasons.
Johnny Bench Lifetime Total Average
Stats similar to Total Average for Johnny Bench
| Johnny Bench
Total Average |
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| Career | 0.79 |
| Season Avg. | 0.79 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.79 |
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Johnny Bench Total Average Per Season
Johnny Bench's Total Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, C, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Johnny Bench Total Average by Team
Johnny Bench's career Total Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Johnny Bench Total Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Johnny Bench's career Total Average 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.
Johnny Bench Total Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Johnny Bench's seasonal Total Average 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.
Johnny Bench Total Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Johnny Bench's MLB career with Total Average 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.
