How Sal Butera's Equivalent Average Compares to Similar Players

Sal Butera posted a career Equivalent Average of .628, below the league average of .748 — a level that fell short of typical league production. His best Equivalent Average season came in 1986, posting .748, near the league average of .756 that year. The lowest point came in 1984 at .375, well below the league average of .744 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .748 in 1986 to .515 in 1987 and .605 in 1988. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average fell below league norms across 9 seasons.

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Sal Butera Equivalent Average Per Season

Sal Butera'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, C, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Sal Butera Equivalent Average per season line chart

Sal Butera Equivalent Average by Team

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

A waterfall chart tracking how Sal Butera'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.
Sal Butera Equivalent Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Sal Butera Equivalent Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Sal Butera'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.
Sal Butera Equivalent Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Sal Butera Equivalent Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Sal Butera'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.
Sal Butera Equivalent Average season-by-season breakdown table