How Mark Kotsay's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players
Mark Kotsay posted a career Batting Average of .276, near the league average of .263 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best Batting Average season came in 2004, posting .314, above the league average of .266 that year. The lowest point came in 1997 at .192, well below the league average of .265 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .270 in 2011 to .259 in 2012 and .194 in 2013. 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 17 seasons.
Mark Kotsay Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats
Stats similar to Batting Average for Mark Kotsay
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| Career | 0.276 | 7109 | 6464 | 0.294 |
| Season Avg. | 0.276 | 418.18 | 380.24 | 0.294 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.276 | 601.7 | 547.11 | 0.294 |
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Mark Kotsay Batting Average Per Season
Mark Kotsay'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.
Mark Kotsay Batting Average by Team
Mark Kotsay's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Mark Kotsay Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Mark Kotsay'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.
Mark Kotsay Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Mark Kotsay'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.
Mark Kotsay Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Mark Kotsay'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.
