How Kirby Higbe's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Kirby Higbe posted a career Batting Average of .153, well below the league average of .263 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Batting Average season came in 1950, posting .250, near the league average of .263 that year. The lowest point came in 1937 at .000, well below the league average of .274 that year. The Batting Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .208 in 1948 to .056 in 1949 and .250 in 1950. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Batting Average profile — ranging from .000 to .250 — though the career average remained well below league norms.

Kirby Higbe Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

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Kirby Higbe Batting Average Per Season

Kirby Higbe'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, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Kirby Higbe Batting Average per season line chart

Kirby Higbe Batting Average by Team

Kirby Higbe's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Kirby Higbe career Batting Average by team bar chart

Kirby Higbe Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Kirby Higbe'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.
Kirby Higbe Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Kirby Higbe Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Kirby Higbe'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.
Kirby Higbe Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Kirby Higbe Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Kirby Higbe'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.
Kirby Higbe Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table