How Tim Lincecum's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Tim Lincecum posted a career Batting Average of .112, well below the league average of .263 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Batting Average season came in 2008, posting .157, well below the league average of .264 that year. The lowest point came in 2014 at .068, well below the league average of .251 that year. The Batting Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .068 in 2014 to .143 in 2015. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Batting Average profile — ranging from .068 to .157 — though the career average remained well below league norms.

Tim Lincecum Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

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Tim Lincecum Batting Average Per Season

Tim Lincecum'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.
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Tim Lincecum Batting Average by Team

Tim Lincecum'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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Tim Lincecum Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Tim Lincecum'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.
Tim Lincecum Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Tim Lincecum Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Tim Lincecum'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.
Tim Lincecum Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Tim Lincecum Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Tim Lincecum'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.
Tim Lincecum Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table