What is a good batting average?

What is a good batting average?

The league-wide batting average has generally ranged between . 250 and . 275, and players with batting averages above . 300 are considered to be very good batters.

Why are batting averages out of 1000?

ELI5: Why are baseball batting averages calculated/reported out of 1000 and not out of 100 like most percentages? … A good batter on a bad team may actually get less total hits than an average hitter on a good team, simply because the average hitter gets more at-bats.