shoeless joe jackson has the highest batting average in baseball today.
shoeless joe jackson has the highest batting average in baseball today.
who has the highest batting average in baseball today?
shoeless joe jackson
set by ty cobb in 1928 after beginning his career in 1905. highlights of this record include; three .400 seasons, nine .380 seasons, and leading the league 11 times in batting average. cobb managed to hit .323 in his final season at age 41. the next-closest player is rogers hornsby who had a batting average of .358; hornsby's career straddled the dead-ball and live-ball eras, with most of it being in the live-ball era. there are only three players with a career average over .350, and the highest batting average among those who played their entire careers in the live-ball era is ted williams' .344. since 1928, there have been only 46 seasons in which a hitter reached .366 and only tony gwynn attained that mark at least four times, finishing with a career .338 batting average. the active player with the highest batting average is miguel cabrera at .317, fractionally above josé altuve.
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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)