How Matt Cain's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players
Matt Cain posted a career Batting Average of .121, well below the league average of .263 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Batting Average season came in 2012, posting .176, well below the league average of .255 that year. The lowest point came in 2015 at .000, well below the league average of .256 that year. The Batting Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .000 in 2015 to .074 in 2016 and .156 in 2017. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Batting Average profile — ranging from .000 to .176 — though the career average remained well below league norms.
Matt Cain Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats
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| Career | 0.121 | 708 | 611 | 0.225 |
| Season Avg. | 0.121 | 54.46 | 47 | 0.225 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.121 | 328.64 | 283.62 | 0.225 |
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Matt Cain Batting Average Per Season
Matt Cain's Batting Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Matt Cain Batting Average by Team
Matt Cain's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Matt Cain Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Matt Cain'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.
Matt Cain Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Matt Cain'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.
Matt Cain Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Matt Cain'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.
