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His hitting improved modestly in 1980 and 1981, enough that even with another sub-.200 in his final season of 1982 he raised his career batting average to .215. [ 4 ] Mendoza returned to his native land in 1983 and played seven seasons in the Mexican League , and achieved a more than respectable .291 career batting average in that league.
Rod Carew had a .408 BABIP in 1977, one of the best single-season BABIPs since 1945. [1]In baseball statistics, batting average on balls in play (abbreviated BABIP) is a measurement of how often batted balls result in hits, excluding home runs. [2]
The modern-era record for the lowest batting average for a player that qualified for the batting title is held by Chris Davis, who hit .168 in 2018. [15] While finishing six plate appearances short of qualifying for the batting title, Adam Dunn of the Chicago White Sox hit .159 for the 2011 season, nine points lower than the record. [ 16 ]
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."
In game theory, a futile game is a game that permits a draw or a tie when optimal moves are made by both players. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An example of this type of game is the classical form of Tic-tac-toe , [ 3 ] though not all variants are futile games.
In cricket, a player's batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been out.Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability, and largely independent of their teammates, batting average is a good metric for an individual player's skill as a batter.
Sandy Koufax had a .179 batting average against in 1965, the best in Major League Baseball for that season. [1]In baseball statistics, batting average against (denoted by BAA or AVG), also known as opponents' batting average (denoted by OBA), [a] is a statistic that measures a pitcher's ability to prevent hits during official at bats.
Total player rating (TPR), also known as Batter-Fielder/Pitcher Wins (BFW/PW) is a metric for measuring the value of baseball players, and to enable players to be compared against each other even when they played for different teams, at different positions, and in different eras.