Willie Mays Batting Average

Willie Mays Career Batting Average Overview

Willie Mays's Batting Average was 0.302 for his 22-year Major League Baseball career. 1958 was his best season when his Batting Average was 0.347 and his worst season was 1973 when his Batting Average was 0.211. Willie Mays is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (0.250558), The Silent Generation (0.242137), mlb (0.250237), CF (0.256069), and Y (0.298075) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batting average (BA) is the number of hits divided by the number of at bats of a player over a defined period of time, typically a season or career. Generally, for Batting Average, higher is better. (Source)

Willie Mays Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batting Average for Willie Mays

	Willie Mays Batting Average	Willie Mays Plate Appearances	Willie Mays At Bats	Willie Mays BABIP
Career	0.302	12493	10881	0.299
Season Avg.	0.294	568	495	0.295
162 Game Avg.	0.302	676	589	0.299
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Willie Mays Batting Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Willie Mays's yearly Batting Average for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, CF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Willie Mays Batting Average By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Willie Mays's career Batting Average changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Batting Average Willie Mays had at that season in his career.

Willie Mays Batting Average By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Willie Mays and related player groups by summarizing Batting Average for each season played by Willie Mays. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!

Willie Mays Batting Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Willie Mays Batting Average stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, CF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Willie Mays career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.