bill bergen has the lowest batting average in major league baseball.
bill bergen has the lowest batting average in major league baseball.
who has the lowest batting average in major league baseball?
bill bergen
ty cobb holds the record for highest career batting average with .366, eight points higher than rogers hornsby who has the second-highest career average at .358. the record for lowest career batting average for a player with more than 2,500 at-bats belongs to bill bergen, a catcher who played from 1901 to 1911 and recorded a .170 average in 3,028 career at-bats. hugh duffy, who played from 1888 to 1906, is credited with the highest single-season batting average, having hit .440 in 1894. the modern-era (post-1900) record for highest batting average for a season is held by nap lajoie, who hit .426 in 1901, the first year of play for the american league. 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. 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. the highest batting average for a rookie was .408 in 1911 by shoeless joe jackson.
batting average (baseball)
in a 15-year major league career, tenace played in 1,555 games, accumulating 1,060 hits in 4,390 at bats for a .241 career batting average along with 201 home runs, 674 runs batted in and an on-base percentage of .388. he not only caught nearly 900 games, but also played first base over 600 times. tenace ended his career with a .986 fielding percentage as a catcher and a .993 fielding percentage as a first baseman. he reached 20 home runs in five of his seven seasons as a regular, with a high of 29 in . after becoming an everyday player in 1973, he did not have an on-base average below .370 until his final year; his obp was above .400 five times and over .390 (about 60 points above the league average) an additional three times, ending his career with an impressive .388 on-base percentage. six times he drew more than 100 bases on balls, and he led his league twice. he set the american league record for having the lowest batting average while leading the league in walks in when he posted a .211 batting average with a league-leading 110 walks. in , he had a .415 on-base percentage while posting a .233 batting average, the second lowest batting average with a .400 on-base percentage in major league history. less than half of his career trips to first base came via base hits, reaching 1,075 times through walks (984) and being hit by pitches (91) as opposed to only 1,060 hits.
gene tenace