How Bill Lee's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Bill Lee posted a career Batting Average of .168, well below the league average of .263 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Batting Average season came in 1947, posting .333, well above the league average of .269 that year. The lowest point came in 1939 at .126, well below the league average of .275 that year. The Batting Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .146 in 1945 to .170 in 1946 and .333 in 1947. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Batting Average profile — ranging from .126 to .333 — though the career average remained well below league norms.

Bill Lee Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

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Bill Lee Batting Average Per Season

Bill Lee'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, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Bill Lee Batting Average per season line chart

Bill Lee Batting Average by Team

Bill Lee's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
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Bill Lee Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Bill Lee'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.
Bill Lee Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Bill Lee Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Bill Lee'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.
Bill Lee Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Bill Lee Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Bill Lee'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.
Bill Lee Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table