Rich Gossage Batting Average

Rich Gossage Career Batting Average Overview

Rich Gossage's Batting Average was 0.106 for his 22-year Major League Baseball career. 1977 was his best season when his Batting Average was 0.217 and his worst season was 1972 when his Batting Average was 0. Rich Gossage underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (0.250558), Baby Boomers (0.247824), Y (0.298075), mlb (0.250237), and RP (0.168245) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batting average (BA) is the number of hits divided by the number of at bats of a player over a defined period of time, typically a season or career. Generally, for Batting Average, higher is better. (Source)

Rich Gossage Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batting Average for Rich Gossage

	Rich Gossage Batting Average	Rich Gossage Plate Appearances	Rich Gossage At Bats	Rich Gossage BABIP
Career	0.106	93	85	0.188
Season Avg.	0.018	4	4	0.028
162 Game Avg.	0.106	15	14	0.188
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Rich Gossage Batting Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rich Gossage's yearly Batting Average for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Rich Gossage Batting Average By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Rich Gossage's career Batting Average changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Batting Average Rich Gossage had at that season in his career.

Rich Gossage Batting Average By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Rich Gossage and related player groups by summarizing Batting Average for each season played by Rich Gossage. 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!

Rich Gossage Batting Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Rich Gossage Batting Average 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, RP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Rich Gossage 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.