Don Drysdale Career BABIP Overview
Don Drysdale's BABIP was 0.244 for his 14-year Major League Baseball career.
1965 was his best season when his BABIP was 0.36 and his worst season was 1957
when his BABIP was 0.167. Don Drysdale is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or
being beat by USA (0.281074), Y (0.30867), mlb (0.281966), The Silent Generation (0.269574), and SP (0.226088) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that
visualize this information in more detail.
Batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is a metric designed to measure the number of balls put in play by a player or team over a defined period resulted in a hit. Generally, for BABIP, higher is better. (
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Don Drysdale Lifetime BABIP
Stats similar to BABIP for Don Drysdale
| Don DrysdaleBABIP |
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Career | 0.244 |
Season Avg. | 0.24 |
162 Game Avg. | 0.244 |
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Don Drysdale BABIP By Year Line Chart
This line chart shows Don Drysdale's yearly BABIP
for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison,
are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their
country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
Don Drysdale BABIP By Year Change
This waterfall chart attempts to show how Don Drysdale's career BABIP changed per season.
This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career BABIP Don Drysdale
had at that season in his career.
Don Drysdale BABIP By Year Box Chart
This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Don Drysdale and related player groups by summarizing BABIP
for each season played by Don Drysdale. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box
being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and
medians to draw your conclusions!
Don Drysdale BABIP Per Season Stats Table
This table shows Don Drysdale BABIP stats per season for his full MLB career with the
aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season
player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players,
SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each
group for each year of Don Drysdale career.
Note: "—" indicate there were no players
for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may
not have been a hall of famer playing that year.