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The modern-era record for 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 ]
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]
BA – Batting average (also abbreviated AVG): hits divided by at bats (H/AB) BB – Base on balls (also called a "walk"): hitter not swinging at four pitches called out of the strike zone and awarded first base. BABIP – Batting average on balls in play: frequency at which a batter reaches a base after putting the ball in the field of play ...
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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.
Rank Player (2025 Ks) K 51 Derrek Lee: 1,622 52 Eugenio Suárez (0): 1,618 53 Reggie Sanders: 1,614 54 Gary Gaetti: 1,602 55 Mark McGwire: 1,596 56 Shin-Soo Choo
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."
A batting average of .300 ("three hundred") is considered to be excellent, which means the best hitters fail to get a hit in 70% of their at-bats. Even the level of .400, which is outstanding and rare (last achieved at the major league level in 1941), suggests "failure" 60% of the time. Bases on balls are not counted in calculating batting average.