Jim Bunning Career Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play Overview

Jim Bunning's Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play was 0.265 for his 17-year Major League Baseball career. 1957 was his best season when his Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play was 0.222 and his worst season was 1971 when his Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play was 0.319. Jim Bunning is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (0.28504703511729), The Silent Generation (0.27137644642392), Y (0.2691168881417), mlb (0.2854780070399), and SP (0.28494401387655) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is a metric designed to measure the number of balls put in play by a player or team over a defined period resulted in a hit. Generally, for Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play, lower is better. (Source)

Jim Bunning Lifetime Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play

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Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play
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162 Game Avg.0.265
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Jim Bunning Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Jim Bunning's yearly Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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Jim Bunning Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Jim Bunning's career Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play Jim Bunning had at that season in his career.
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Jim Bunning Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Jim Bunning and related player groups by summarizing Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play for each season played by Jim Bunning. 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!
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Jim Bunning Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Jim Bunning Opposing Batting Average on Balls in Play 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Jim Bunning 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.
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