Babe Ruth Career BABIP Overview

Babe Ruth's BABIP was 0.34 for his 22-year Major League Baseball career. 1923 was his best season when his BABIP was 0.423 and his worst season was 1935 when his BABIP was 0.167. Babe Ruth outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (0.281074), The Lost Generation (0.282084), Y (0.30867), mlb (0.281966), and RF (0.291133) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is a metric designed to measure the number of balls put in play by a player or team over a defined period resulted in a hit. Generally, for BABIP, higher is better. (Source)

Babe Ruth Lifetime BABIP

Stats similar to BABIP for Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
BABIP
Career0.34
Season Avg.0.333
162 Game Avg.0.34
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Babe Ruth BABIP By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly BABIP 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.
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Babe Ruth BABIP By Year Change

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing BABIP 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!
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Babe Ruth BABIP Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Babe Ruth BABIP 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.
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