How Ed Young's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players
Ed Young posted a career Batting Average of .280, near the league average of .268 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best Batting Average season came in 1942, posting .350. The lowest point came in 1936 at .167. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .289 in 1943 to .200 in 1946 and .269 in 1947. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average tracked near league norms across 9 seasons.
Ed Young Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats
Stats similar to Batting Average for Ed Young
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| Career | 0.28 | 728 | 664 | 0.269 |
| Season Avg. | 0.28 | 80.89 | 73.78 | 0.269 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.28 | 648 | 591.03 | 0.269 |
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Ed Young Batting Average Per Season
Ed Young's Batting Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — Negro American League, Hall of Fame, 1B, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Ed Young Batting Average by Team
Ed Young's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Ed Young Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Ed Young'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.
Ed Young Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Ed Young'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.
Ed Young Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Ed Young'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.
