Babe Ruth At Bats

Babe Ruth Career At Bats Overview

During Babe Ruth's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 8398 at bats, an average of 382 at bats per season. 1921 was his best season with 540 at bats and his worst season was 1914 when he had 10 at bats. Babe Ruth outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2176.94), Y (7565.9), mlb (2174.26), and RF (2525.83) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

At bats (AB) are a subset of plate appearances used to calculate other stats like slugging percent and batting average. Players are credited with an at bat when their plate appereance does not end as a walk, a hit by pitch, sac fly or bunt, awarded a base for catcher interfiernce or replaced before their plate appereance completes. Generally, for At Bats, higher is better. (Source)

Babe Ruth Lifetime At Bats

Stats similar to At Bats for Babe Ruth

	Babe Ruth At Bats
Career	8398
Season Avg.	382
162 Game Avg.	544
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Babe Ruth At Bats By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly At Bats for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Babe Ruth Cumulative At Bats by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Babe Ruth's career At Bats progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Babe Ruth's career At Bats at the end of that season.

Babe Ruth At Bats By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing At Bats for each season played by Babe Ruth. 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!

Babe Ruth At Bats Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Babe Ruth At Bats 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, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Babe Ruth 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.