Al Kaline Career BABIP Overview
Al Kaline's BABIP was 0.296 for his 22-year Major League Baseball career.
1955 was his best season when his BABIP was 0.339 and his worst season was 1973
when his BABIP was 0.249. Al Kaline is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or
being beat by USA (0.281074), The Silent Generation (0.269574), Y (0.30867), mlb (0.281966), and RF (0.291133) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that
visualize this information in more detail.
Batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is a metric designed to measure the number of balls put in play by a player or team over a defined period resulted in a hit. Generally, for BABIP, higher is better. (
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Al Kaline Lifetime BABIP
Stats similar to BABIP for Al Kaline
| Al KalineBABIP |
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Career | 0.296 |
Season Avg. | 0.294 |
162 Game Avg. | 0.296 |
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Al Kaline BABIP By Year Line Chart
This line chart shows Al Kaline's yearly BABIP
for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison,
are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, and players from their
country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
Al Kaline BABIP By Year Change
This waterfall chart attempts to show how Al Kaline's career BABIP changed per season.
This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career BABIP Al Kaline
had at that season in his career.
Al Kaline BABIP By Year Box Chart
This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Al Kaline and related player groups by summarizing BABIP
for each season played by Al Kaline. 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!
Al Kaline BABIP Per Season Stats Table
This table shows Al Kaline BABIP 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,
RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each
group for each year of Al Kaline 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.