How Tom Butters's Opposing Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Tom Butters posted a career Opposing Batting Average of .224, below the relief pitcher average of .255 — production that kept him consistently ahead of most peers. Across 4 seasons, the Opposing Batting Average arc showed a promising start, with limited data making longer-term conclusions premature. With 4 seasons of data, the Opposing Batting Average arc was above league norms — too limited for reliable trend analysis. One of the more consistent Opposing Batting Average producers of his era, the career line shows above-average output with little season-to-season variance across 4 seasons.

Tom Butters Lifetime Opposing Batting Average and Similar Stats

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Tom Butters Opposing Batting Average Per Season

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

Tom Butters Opposing Batting Average by Team

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

A waterfall chart tracking how Tom Butters's career Opposing 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.
Tom Butters Opposing Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Tom Butters Opposing Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Tom Butters's seasonal Opposing 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.
Tom Butters Opposing Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Tom Butters Opposing Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Tom Butters's MLB career with Opposing 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.
Tom Butters Opposing Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table