Kirby Puckett Career Batting Average Overview

Kirby Puckett's Batting Average was 0.318 for his 12-year Major League Baseball career. 1988 was his best season when his Batting Average was 0.356 and his worst season was 1985 when his Batting Average was 0.288. Kirby Puckett is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (0.250558), Baby Boomers (0.247824), mlb (0.250237), CF (0.256069), 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)

Kirby Puckett Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

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Kirby Puckett Batting Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Kirby Puckett'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, CF, 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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Kirby Puckett Batting Average By Year Change

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Kirby Puckett and related player groups by summarizing Batting Average for each season played by Kirby Puckett. 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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Kirby Puckett Batting Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Kirby Puckett 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, CF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Kirby Puckett 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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