How Kent Tekulve's BABIP Compares to Similar Players

Kent Tekulve posted a career BABIP of .167, well below the league average of .290 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best BABIP season came in 1989, posting 1.0, well above the league average of .280 that year. The lowest point came in 1976 at .000, well below the league average of .285 that year. The BABIP trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .000 in 1987 to 1.0 in 1989. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the BABIP profile — ranging from .000 to 1.0 — though the career average remained well below league norms.

Kent Tekulve Lifetime BABIP

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Kent Tekulve BABIP Per Season

Kent Tekulve's BABIP for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, RP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Kent Tekulve BABIP per season line chart

Kent Tekulve BABIP by Team

Kent Tekulve's career BABIP totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Kent Tekulve career BABIP by team bar chart

Kent Tekulve BABIP Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Kent Tekulve's career BABIP shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Kent Tekulve BABIP year-over-year waterfall chart

Kent Tekulve BABIP Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Kent Tekulve's seasonal BABIP alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Kent Tekulve BABIP distribution box chart versus comparable players

Kent Tekulve BABIP — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Kent Tekulve's MLB career with BABIP alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Kent Tekulve BABIP season-by-season breakdown table