How Ken Griffey's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players
Ken Griffey posted a career Batting Average of .296, above the league average of .263 — production that kept him consistently ahead of most peers. His best Batting Average season came in 1973, posting .384, well above the league average of .258 that year. The lowest point came in 1974 at .251, near the league average of .259 that year. The Batting Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .263 in 1989 to .300 in 1990 and .282 in 1991. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained above league norms across 19 seasons.
Ken Griffey Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats
Stats similar to Batting Average for Ken Griffey
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| Career | 0.296 | 8048 | 7229 | 0.319 |
| Season Avg. | 0.296 | 423.58 | 380.47 | 0.319 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.296 | 621.73 | 558.46 | 0.319 |
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Ken Griffey Batting Average Per Season
Ken Griffey'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, RF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Ken Griffey Batting Average by Team
Ken Griffey's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Ken Griffey Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Ken Griffey'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.
Ken Griffey Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Ken Griffey'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.
Ken Griffey Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Ken Griffey'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.
