How Doug Bird's Equivalent Average Compares to Similar Players

Doug Bird posted a career Equivalent Average of .356, well below the league average of .748 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Equivalent Average season came in 1979, posting .500, well below the league average of .763 that year. The lowest point came in 1981 at .326, well below the league average of .718 that year. The Equivalent Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .326 in 1981 to .350 in 1982. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well below league norms across 11 seasons.

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Doug Bird Equivalent Average Per Season

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

Doug Bird Equivalent Average by Team

Doug Bird's career Equivalent Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Doug Bird career Equivalent Average by team bar chart

Doug Bird Equivalent Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Doug Bird's career Equivalent 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.
Doug Bird Equivalent Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Doug Bird Equivalent Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Doug Bird's seasonal Equivalent 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.
Doug Bird Equivalent Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Doug Bird Equivalent Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Doug Bird's MLB career with Equivalent 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.
Doug Bird Equivalent Average season-by-season breakdown table