How Jim Perry's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Jim Perry posted a career Batting Average of .199, well below the league average of .262 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Batting Average season came in 1959, posting .300, above the league average of .254 that year. The lowest point came in 1968 at .143, well below the league average of .231 that year. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well below league norms across 17 seasons.

Jim Perry Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

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Jim Perry Batting Average Per Season

Jim Perry's Batting Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Jim Perry Batting Average per season line chart

Jim Perry Batting Average by Team

Jim Perry'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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Jim Perry Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Jim Perry'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.
Jim Perry Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Jim Perry Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Jim Perry'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.
Jim Perry Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Jim Perry Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Jim Perry'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.
Jim Perry Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table