How Skip James's BABIP Compares to Similar Players

Skip James posted a career BABIP of .214, well below the league average of .290 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. Across 2 seasons, the BABIP arc showed a disappointing start, with limited data making longer-term conclusions premature. With 2 seasons of data, the BABIP arc was below league norms — too limited for reliable trend analysis. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the BABIP profile — ranging from .125 to .333 — though the career average remained well below league norms.

Skip James Lifetime BABIP

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Skip James BABIP Per Season

Skip James's BABIP for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, 1B, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Skip James BABIP per season line chart

Skip James BABIP by Team

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

Skip James BABIP Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Skip James'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.
Skip James BABIP year-over-year waterfall chart

Skip James BABIP Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Skip James'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.
Skip James BABIP distribution box chart versus comparable players

Skip James BABIP — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Skip James'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.
Skip James BABIP season-by-season breakdown table