How Joe DiMaggio's Home Runs Per Hit Compares to Similar Players

Joe DiMaggio posted a career Home Runs Per Hit of .163, well above the league average of .090 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Home Runs Per Hit season came in 1937, posting .214, well above the league average of .067 that year. The lowest point came in 1951 at .110, well above the league average of .076 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .149 in 1949 to .203 in 1950 and .110 in 1951. 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 above league norms across 13 seasons.

Joe DiMaggio Lifetime Home Runs Per Hit

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Joe DiMaggio Home Runs Per Hit Per Season

Joe DiMaggio's Home Runs Per Hit for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, CF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Joe DiMaggio Home Runs Per Hit per season line chart

Joe DiMaggio Home Runs Per Hit by Team

Joe DiMaggio's career Home Runs Per Hit totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Joe DiMaggio career Home Runs Per Hit by team bar chart

Joe DiMaggio Home Runs Per Hit Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Joe DiMaggio's career Home Runs Per Hit 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.
Joe DiMaggio Home Runs Per Hit year-over-year waterfall chart

Joe DiMaggio Home Runs Per Hit Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Joe DiMaggio's seasonal Home Runs Per Hit 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.
Joe DiMaggio Home Runs Per Hit distribution box chart versus comparable players

Joe DiMaggio Home Runs Per Hit — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Joe DiMaggio's MLB career with Home Runs Per Hit 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.
Joe DiMaggio Home Runs Per Hit season-by-season breakdown table