Willie McCovey Career BABIP Overview
Willie McCovey's BABIP was 0.273 for his 22-year Major League Baseball career.
1959 was his best season when his BABIP was 0.379 and his worst season was 1972
when his BABIP was 0.205. Willie McCovey is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or
being beat by Y (0.30867), USA (0.281074), The Silent Generation (0.269574), mlb (0.281966), and 1B (0.285629) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that
visualize this information in more detail.
Batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is a metric designed to measure the number of balls put in play by a player or team over a defined period resulted in a hit. Generally, for BABIP, higher is better. (
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Willie McCovey Lifetime BABIP
Stats similar to BABIP for Willie McCovey
| Willie McCoveyBABIP |
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Career | 0.273 |
Season Avg. | 0.27 |
162 Game Avg. | 0.273 |
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Willie McCovey BABIP By Year Line Chart
This line chart shows Willie McCovey's yearly BABIP
for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison,
are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their
country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
Willie McCovey BABIP By Year Change
This waterfall chart attempts to show how Willie McCovey's career BABIP changed per season.
This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career BABIP Willie McCovey
had at that season in his career.
Willie McCovey BABIP By Year Box Chart
This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Willie McCovey and related player groups by summarizing BABIP
for each season played by Willie McCovey. 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 McCovey BABIP Per Season Stats Table
This table shows Willie McCovey BABIP 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,
1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each
group for each year of Willie McCovey 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.