Babe Ruth Opposing Batting Average

Babe Ruth Career Opposing Batting Average Overview

Babe Ruth's Opposing Batting Average was 0.215 for his 10-year Major League Baseball career. 1916 was his best season when his Opposing Batting Average was 0.196 and his worst season was 1921 when his Opposing Batting Average was 0.35. Babe Ruth outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (0.26336974364437), The Lost Generation (0.25904845881586), Y (0.24038456471203), mlb (0.26267512321167), and RF (0.27066771145394) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Opposing batting average is the batting average of players against a pitcher or a team's pitchers. Opposing batting average is calculated by dividing the number of hits allowed by the number of at bats pitched. Generally, for Opposing Batting Average, lower is better. (Source)

Babe Ruth Lifetime Opposing Batting Average

Stats similar to Opposing Batting Average for Babe Ruth

	Babe Ruth Opposing Batting Average
Career	0.215
Season Avg.	0.247
162 Game Avg.	0.215
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Babe Ruth Opposing Batting Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly Opposing 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, 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 Opposing Batting Average By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Babe Ruth's career Opposing Batting Average changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Opposing Batting Average Babe Ruth had at that season in his career.

Babe Ruth Opposing Batting Average By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing Opposing Batting Average 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 Opposing Batting Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Babe Ruth Opposing 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, 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.