How Paul Derringer's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players
Paul Derringer posted a career Batting Average of .175, well below the league average of .263 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Batting Average season came in 1943, posting .224, below the league average of .260 that year. The lowest point came in 1931 at .097, well below the league average of .279 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .224 in 1943 to .158 in 1944 and .200 in 1945. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well below league norms across 15 seasons.
Paul Derringer Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats
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| Career | 0.175 | 1355 | 1260 | 0.21 |
| Season Avg. | 0.175 | 90.33 | 84 | 0.21 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.175 | 379.12 | 352.54 | 0.21 |
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Paul Derringer Batting Average Per Season
Paul Derringer'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.
Paul Derringer Batting Average by Team
Paul Derringer's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Paul Derringer Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Paul Derringer'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.
Paul Derringer Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Paul Derringer'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.
Paul Derringer Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Paul Derringer'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.
