How Joel Youngblood's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players
Joel Youngblood posted a career Batting Average of .265, near the league average of .263 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best Batting Average season came in 1981, posting .350, well above the league average of .259 that year. The lowest point came in 1976 at .193, well below the league average of .261 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .253 in 1987 to .252 in 1988 and .212 in 1989. 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 14 seasons.
Joel Youngblood Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats
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| Career | 0.265 | 4078 | 3659 | 0.294 |
| Season Avg. | 0.265 | 291.29 | 261.36 | 0.294 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.265 | 469.2 | 420.99 | 0.294 |
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Joel Youngblood Batting Average Per Season
Joel Youngblood'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, RF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Joel Youngblood Batting Average by Team
Joel Youngblood's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Joel Youngblood Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Joel Youngblood'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.
Joel Youngblood Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Joel Youngblood'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.
Joel Youngblood Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Joel Youngblood'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.
