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  2. List of Major League Baseball career batting average leaders

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    Josh Gibson has the highest career batting average in major league history with .372. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. It is usually reported to three decimal places and pronounced as if it were multiplied by 1,000: a player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three-hundred."

  3. Batting average (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    The league batting average in MLB for the 2018 season was .248, with the highest modern-era MLB average being .296 in 1930, and the lowest being .237 in 1968. [18] For non-pitchers, a batting average below .230 is often considered poor, and one below .200 is usually unacceptable.

  4. List of Major League Baseball batting champions - Wikipedia

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    a While Baseball-Reference.com lists both Yelich and Marte with a batting average of .329 in 2019, Yelich's average is higher (.3292) than Marte's (.3286) if extended to four decimal places. b The Major League Baseball (MLB) season in 2020 was less than half the length of a typical season, starting in late July and condensed into 60 games due ...

  5. List of Major League Baseball leaders - Wikipedia

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    List of Major League Baseball career batting average leaders; ... List of Major League Baseball players with a .400 batting average in a season; Other

  6. How rule changes are giving longtime MLB losers a chance in ...

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    In addition to more action on the diamond, MLB hitters had an increased batting average of .248 this season, compared to .243 in 2022. ... The Yankees had baseball’s second-worst team batting ...

  7. List of Major League Baseball career records - Wikipedia

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    Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.

  8. List of Major League Baseball players with a .400 batting ...

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    Shoeless Joe Jackson of the Cleveland Naps hit .408 in 1911, the highest batting average ever recorded by a rookie in the American League. Joe Strong has the lowest career batting average among players who have batted .400 in a season with .266, while Gibson – with .372 – recorded the highest career average in major league history. [12]

  9. List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable

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    In a 2018 ESPN story, Sam Miller argued that it was impossible to hit .400, or even seriously challenge the mark, in the modern game, noting that no hitter in the 21st century entered the second half of the season with an average above .380, and at that time, no batter since 2009 who qualified for his league's batting title had a .400 average ...