Rickey Henderson Batting Average

Rickey Henderson Career Batting Average Overview

Rickey Henderson's Batting Average was 0.279 for his 25-year Major League Baseball career. 1990 was his best season when his Batting Average was 0.325 and his worst season was 2003 when his Batting Average was 0.208. Rickey Henderson is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (0.250558), Baby Boomers (0.247824), mlb (0.250237), Y (0.298075), and LF (0.260148) 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)

Rickey Henderson Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batting Average for Rickey Henderson

	Rickey Henderson Batting Average	Rickey Henderson Plate Appearances	Rickey Henderson At Bats	Rickey Henderson BABIP
Career	0.279	13346	10961	0.305
Season Avg.	0.274	534	438	0.302
162 Game Avg.	0.279	702	576	0.305
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Rickey Henderson Batting Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rickey Henderson'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, LF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Rickey Henderson Batting Average By Year Change

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

Rickey Henderson Batting Average By Year Box Chart

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

Rickey Henderson Batting Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Rickey Henderson 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, LF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Rickey Henderson 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.