Sammy Sosa Batting Average

Sammy Sosa Career Batting Average Overview

Sammy Sosa's Batting Average was 0.273 for his 18-year Major League Baseball career. 2001 was his best season when his Batting Average was 0.328 and his worst season was 1991 when his Batting Average was 0.203. Sammy Sosa is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by D.R. (0.248538), Gen X (0.252846), Y (0.298075), mlb (0.250237), and RF (0.260599) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Batting average (BA) is the number of hits divided by the number of at bats of a player over a defined period of time, typically a season or career. Generally, for Batting Average, higher is better. (Source)

Sammy Sosa Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Batting Average for Sammy Sosa

	Sammy Sosa Batting Average	Sammy Sosa Plate Appearances	Sammy Sosa At Bats	Sammy Sosa BABIP
Career	0.273	9896	8813	0.301
Season Avg.	0.269	550	490	0.3
162 Game Avg.	0.273	681	607	0.301
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Sammy Sosa Batting Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Sammy Sosa's yearly 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.

Sammy Sosa Batting Average By Year Change

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

Sammy Sosa Batting Average By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Sammy Sosa and related player groups by summarizing Batting Average for each season played by Sammy Sosa. 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!

Sammy Sosa Batting Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Sammy Sosa 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 Sammy Sosa 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.