How Luis Rivera's BABIP Compares to Similar Players

Luis Rivera posted a career BABIP of .278, near the league average of .289 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best BABIP season came in 1997, posting .429, well above the league average of .303 that year. The lowest point came in 1987 at .208, well below the league average of .288 that year. The BABIP trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .277 in 1993 to .429 in 1997 and .306 in 1998. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average tracked near league norms across 10 seasons.

Luis Rivera Lifetime BABIP

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Luis Rivera BABIP Per Season

Luis Rivera's BABIP for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, SS, Caribbean, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Luis Rivera BABIP per season line chart

Luis Rivera BABIP by Team

Luis Rivera's career BABIP totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Luis Rivera career BABIP by team bar chart

Luis Rivera BABIP Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Luis Rivera's career BABIP 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.
Luis Rivera BABIP year-over-year waterfall chart

Luis Rivera BABIP Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Luis Rivera's seasonal BABIP 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.
Luis Rivera BABIP distribution box chart versus comparable players

Luis Rivera BABIP — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Luis Rivera's MLB career with BABIP 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.
Luis Rivera BABIP season-by-season breakdown table