How Matt Kemp's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players
Matt Kemp posted a career Batting Average of .284, near the league average of .263 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best Batting Average season came in 2007, posting .343, well above the league average of .270 that year. The lowest point came in 2019 at .200, well below the league average of .254 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .276 in 2017 to .290 in 2018 and .200 in 2019. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average tracked near league norms across 14 seasons.
Matt Kemp Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats
Stats similar to Batting Average for Matt Kemp
| Matt Kemp Batting Average | Matt Kemp Plate Appearances | Matt Kemp At Bats | Matt Kemp BABIP |
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| Career | 0.284 | 6982 | 6365 | 0.337 |
| Season Avg. | 0.284 | 465.47 | 424.33 | 0.337 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.284 | 646.33 | 589.22 | 0.337 |
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Matt Kemp Batting Average Per Season
Matt Kemp'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, CF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Matt Kemp Batting Average by Team
Matt Kemp's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Matt Kemp Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Matt Kemp'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.
Matt Kemp Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Matt Kemp'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.
Matt Kemp Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Matt Kemp'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.