Chris Shelton Career BABIP Overview

Chris Shelton's BABIP was 0.335 for his 5-year Major League Baseball career. 2009 was his best season when his BABIP was 0.4 and his worst season was 2004 when his BABIP was 0.25. Chris Shelton is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (0.281074), Gen X (0.292619), mlb (0.281966), 1B (0.285629), and Y (0.30867) 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)

Chris Shelton Lifetime BABIP

Stats similar to BABIP for Chris Shelton
Chris Shelton
BABIP
Career0.335
Season Avg.0.328
162 Game Avg.0.335
More InfoSee More

Chris Shelton BABIP By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Chris Shelton'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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
placeholder for chart

Chris Shelton BABIP By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Chris Shelton's career BABIP changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career BABIP Chris Shelton had at that season in his career.
placeholder for chart

Chris Shelton BABIP By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Chris Shelton and related player groups by summarizing BABIP for each season played by Chris Shelton. 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!
placeholder for chart

Chris Shelton BABIP Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Chris Shelton 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Chris Shelton 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.
placeholder for chart