Jim Palmer Batting Average

Jim Palmer Career Batting Average Overview

Jim Palmer's Batting Average was 0.174 for his 19-year Major League Baseball career. 1972 was his best season when his Batting Average was 0.224 and his worst season was 1973 when his Batting Average was 0. Jim Palmer 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), Y (0.298075), mlb (0.250237), and SP (0.162268) 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)

Jim Palmer Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batting Average for Jim Palmer

	Jim Palmer Batting Average	Jim Palmer Plate Appearances	Jim Palmer At Bats	Jim Palmer BABIP
Career	0.174	537	489	0.293
Season Avg.	0.06	28	26	0.104
162 Game Avg.	0.174	151	138	0.293
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Jim Palmer Batting Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Jim Palmer'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, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Jim Palmer Batting Average By Year Change

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

Jim Palmer Batting Average By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Jim Palmer and related player groups by summarizing Batting Average for each season played by Jim Palmer. 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!

Jim Palmer Batting Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Jim Palmer 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Jim Palmer 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.