How Gates Brown's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players
Gates Brown posted a career Batting Average of .257, near the league average of .262 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best Batting Average season came in 1968, posting .370, well above the league average of .231 that year. The lowest point came in 1975 at .171, well below the league average of .257 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .236 in 1973 to .242 in 1974 and .171 in 1975. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average tracked near league norms across 13 seasons.
Gates Brown Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats
Stats similar to Batting Average for Gates Brown
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| Career | 0.257 | 2545 | 2262 | 0.259 |
| Season Avg. | 0.257 | 195.77 | 174 | 0.259 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.257 | 392.28 | 348.66 | 0.259 |
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Gates Brown Batting Average Per Season
Gates Brown's Batting Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, PH, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Gates Brown Batting Average by Team
Gates Brown's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Gates Brown Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Gates Brown'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.
Gates Brown Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Gates Brown'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.
Gates Brown Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Gates Brown'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.
