How Mark Kotsay's BABIP Compares to Similar Players

Mark Kotsay posted a career BABIP of .294, near the league average of .290 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best BABIP season came in 2004, posting .333, above the league average of .297 that year. The lowest point came in 2013 at .221, well below the league average of .298 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .294 in 2011 to .273 in 2012 and .221 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 BABIP

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Mark Kotsay BABIP Per Season

Mark Kotsay's BABIP 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 BABIP per season line chart

Mark Kotsay BABIP by Team

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

Mark Kotsay BABIP Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Mark Kotsay'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.
Mark Kotsay BABIP year-over-year waterfall chart

Mark Kotsay BABIP Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Mark Kotsay'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.
Mark Kotsay BABIP distribution box chart versus comparable players

Mark Kotsay BABIP — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Mark Kotsay'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.
Mark Kotsay BABIP season-by-season breakdown table