How Bernie Williams's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Bernie Williams posted a career Batting Average of .297, above the league average of .262 — production that kept him consistently ahead of most peers. His best Batting Average season came in 1999, posting .342, well above the league average of .273 that year. The lowest point came in 1991 at .238, near the league average of .260 that year. The Batting Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .262 in 2004 to .250 in 2005 and .281 in 2006. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained above league norms across 15 seasons.

Bernie Williams Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

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Bernie Williams Batting Average Per Season

Bernie Williams's Batting Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, CF, Caribbean, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Bernie Williams Batting Average per season line chart

Bernie Williams Batting Average by Team

Bernie Williams's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
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Bernie Williams Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Bernie Williams's career Batting Average 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.
Bernie Williams Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Bernie Williams Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Bernie Williams's seasonal Batting Average 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.
Bernie Williams Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Bernie Williams Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Bernie Williams's MLB career with Batting Average 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.
Bernie Williams Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table