Placido Polanco Career BABIP Overview

Placido Polanco's BABIP was 0.307 for his 16-year Major League Baseball career. 2007 was his best season when his BABIP was 0.346 and his worst season was 1998 when his BABIP was 0.269. Placido Polanco is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by D.R. (0.292393), Gen X (0.292619), Y (0.30867), mlb (0.281966), and 2B (0.280249) 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. (Source)

Placido Polanco Lifetime BABIP

Stats similar to BABIP for Placido Polanco
Placido Polanco
BABIP
Career0.307
Season Avg.0.304
162 Game Avg.0.307
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Placido Polanco BABIP By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Placido Polanco'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, 2B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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Placido Polanco BABIP By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Placido Polanco's career BABIP changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career BABIP Placido Polanco had at that season in his career.
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Placido Polanco BABIP By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Placido Polanco and related player groups by summarizing BABIP for each season played by Placido Polanco. 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!
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Placido Polanco BABIP Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Placido Polanco 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, 2B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Placido Polanco 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.
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