Standard Batting Averages

The sport of baseball has built a great wall around stats, there are only a few that contain real solid information about a player, at the rookie level only a few will give you a insight on whether the prospect has professional potential on a consistent level.

Standard Batting Averages

At the highest levels of baseball, a .300 batting average is considered very good, .350 is exceptional, and the combined average for all players is roughly .250 to .270.

In youth baseball,players might be able to achieve much higher batting averages.

At the high school level, excellent hitters can attain averages of .600 or better.

An average of less than .200 is considered poor for any level of baseball.

Calculating Batting Averages

To calculate a batting average,the number of hits is divided by the number of official at-bats.

For example, if a player gets 14 hits out of 45 times at bat, that player's batting average is .311.

If a player batted three times in a game and got three hits,that player's batting average for the game would be 1.000.