How Rick Helling's BABIP Compares to Similar Players

Rick Helling posted a career BABIP of .098, well below the league average of .289 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best BABIP season came in 2003, posting .500, well above the league average of .294 that year. The lowest point came in 2000 at .000, well below the league average of .304 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .500 in 2003 to .000 in 2005 and .000 in 2006. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the BABIP profile — ranging from .000 to .500 — though the career average remained well below league norms.

Rick Helling Lifetime BABIP

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Rick Helling BABIP Per Season

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

Rick Helling BABIP by Team

Rick Helling's career BABIP totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Rick Helling career BABIP by team bar chart

Rick Helling BABIP Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Rick Helling's career BABIP 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.
Rick Helling BABIP year-over-year waterfall chart

Rick Helling BABIP Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Rick Helling's seasonal BABIP 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.
Rick Helling BABIP distribution box chart versus comparable players

Rick Helling BABIP — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Rick Helling's MLB career with BABIP 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.
Rick Helling BABIP season-by-season breakdown table