How Buster Posey's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players
Buster Posey posted a career Batting Average of .302, above the league average of .263 — production that kept him consistently ahead of most peers. His best Batting Average season came in 2012, posting .336, well above the league average of .255 that year. The lowest point came in 2009 at .118, well below the league average of .263 that year. The Batting Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .284 in 2018 to .257 in 2019 and .304 in 2021. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained above league norms across 12 seasons.
Buster Posey Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats
Stats similar to Batting Average for Buster Posey
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| Career | 0.302 | 5607 | 4970 | 0.324 |
| Season Avg. | 0.302 | 467.25 | 414.17 | 0.324 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.302 | 662.53 | 587.26 | 0.324 |
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Buster Posey Batting Average Per Season
Buster Posey'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, C, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Buster Posey Batting Average by Team
Buster Posey's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Buster Posey Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Buster Posey'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.
Buster Posey Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Buster Posey'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.
Buster Posey Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Buster Posey'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.
