Rafael Palmeiro Batting Average

Rafael Palmeiro Career Batting Average Overview

Rafael Palmeiro's Batting Average was 0.288 for his 20-year Major League Baseball career. 1999 was his best season when his Batting Average was 0.324 and his worst season was 1986 when his Batting Average was 0.247. Rafael Palmeiro is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by Cuba (0.254152), Baby Boomers (0.247824), mlb (0.250237), 1B (0.258739), 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)

Rafael Palmeiro Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batting Average for Rafael Palmeiro

	Rafael Palmeiro Batting Average	Rafael Palmeiro Plate Appearances	Rafael Palmeiro At Bats	Rafael Palmeiro BABIP
Career	0.288	12046	10472	0.283
Season Avg.	0.286	602	524	0.279
162 Game Avg.	0.288	689	599	0.283
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Rafael Palmeiro Batting Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rafael Palmeiro'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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Rafael Palmeiro Batting Average By Year Change

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

Rafael Palmeiro Batting Average By Year Box Chart

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

Rafael Palmeiro Batting Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Rafael Palmeiro 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Rafael Palmeiro 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.