How Steve Yeager's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Steve Yeager posted a career Batting Average of .228, below the league average of .263 — a level that fell short of typical league production. His best Batting Average season came in 1972, posting .274, near the league average of .251 that year. The lowest point came in 1978 at .193, well below the league average of .257 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .228 in 1984 to .207 in 1985 and .208 in 1986. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average fell below league norms across 15 seasons.

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Steve Yeager Batting Average Per Season

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

Steve Yeager Batting Average by Team

Steve Yeager'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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Steve Yeager Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Steve Yeager'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.
Steve Yeager Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Steve Yeager Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Steve Yeager'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.
Steve Yeager Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Steve Yeager Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Steve Yeager'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.
Steve Yeager Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table