How Darin Ruf's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players
Darin Ruf posted a career Batting Average of .239, near the league average of .263 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best Batting Average season came in 2012, posting .333, well above the league average of .255 that year. The lowest point came in 2022 at .204, below the league average of .246 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .271 in 2021 to .204 in 2022 and .225 in 2023. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average tracked near league norms across 8 seasons.
Darin Ruf Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats
Stats similar to Batting Average for Darin Ruf
| Darin Ruf Batting Average | Darin Ruf Plate Appearances | Darin Ruf At Bats | Darin Ruf BABIP |
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| Career | 0.239 | 1690 | 1469 | 0.297 |
| Season Avg. | 0.239 | 187.78 | 163.22 | 0.297 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.239 | 470.41 | 408.9 | 0.297 |
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Darin Ruf Batting Average Per Season
Darin Ruf'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, 1B, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Darin Ruf Batting Average by Team
Darin Ruf's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Darin Ruf Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Darin Ruf'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.
Darin Ruf Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Darin Ruf'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.
Darin Ruf Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Darin Ruf'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.