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Originally Posted by kipperiggy
I am relatively new to watching baseball, how do they calculate the batting average and what is a "good" average?
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Batting average is as simple as it gets, it's the number of hits you have divided by the number of at bats.
An official at bat is either a hit or an out or a play where the other team makes an error on a ball hit in play.
On base percentage is number of times a player reached base by a hit, walk, or hit by pitch divided by the total number of plate appearances.
A good batting average is .275, an elite average is anything over .300. A good on base % is about .350 and elite is anything over .375.
Of course it depends on the position a player plays. For example first base, DH, and corner outfielders should put up better averages as those positions are not considered to be as important defensively.