How John Denny's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

John Denny posted a career Batting Average of .170, well below the league average of .263 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Batting Average season came in 1975, posting .227, below the league average of .261 that year. The lowest point came in 1977 at .098, well below the league average of .265 that year. The Batting Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .192 in 1984 to .124 in 1985 and .222 in 1986. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well below league norms across 13 seasons.

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John Denny Batting Average Per Season

John Denny'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.
John Denny Batting Average per season line chart

John Denny Batting Average by Team

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

A waterfall chart tracking how John Denny'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.
John Denny Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

John Denny Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes John Denny'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.
John Denny Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

John Denny Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of John Denny'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.
John Denny Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table