How Mookie Betts's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Mookie Betts has posted a career Batting Average of .291, above the league average of .263 — production that has kept him consistently ahead of most peers. His best Batting Average season came in 2018, posting .346, well above the league average of .253 that year. The lowest point came in 2025 at .258, near the league average of .249 that year. Production has slipped over the most recent seasons. The figure has moved from .307 in 2023 to .289 in 2024 and .258 in 2025. The slide has continued into 2025, with the production level an open question entering 2026. One of the more consistent Batting Average producers of his era, the career line shows above-average output with little season-to-season variance across 11 seasons.

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Mookie Betts Batting Average Per Season

Mookie Betts's Batting Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, RF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
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Mookie Betts Batting Average by Team

Mookie Betts's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
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Mookie Betts Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Mookie Betts's career Batting 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.
Mookie Betts Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Mookie Betts Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Mookie Betts's seasonal Batting 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.
Mookie Betts Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Mookie Betts Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Mookie Betts's MLB career with Batting 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.
Mookie Betts Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table