How Joe Medwick's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Joe Medwick posted a career Batting Average of .324, well above the league average of .263 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Batting Average season came in 1937, posting .374, well above the league average of .274 that year. The lowest point came in 1948 at .211, below the league average of .263 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .312 in 1946 to .307 in 1947 and .211 in 1948. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well above league norms across 17 seasons.

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Joe Medwick Batting Average Per Season

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

Joe Medwick Batting Average by Team

Joe Medwick'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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Joe Medwick Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Joe Medwick'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.
Joe Medwick Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Joe Medwick Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Joe Medwick'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.
Joe Medwick Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Joe Medwick Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Joe Medwick'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.
Joe Medwick Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table