BA .400 in 2023? Luis Arraez? Latest in season since Ted Williams .406 in 1941?

Ted Williams .406 in 1941 is the most recent .400 Batting Average (BA).

For single seasons, since 1941, Playing in the AL or NL, Qualified for league batting title, in the regular season, requiring Batting Average >= .380, sorted by ascending Season:

Rk	Player	BA	AB	Season	Age	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	1B	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB
1	Ted Williams	.406	456	1941	22	BOS	AL	143	606	456	135	185	112	33	3	37	120	2	4	147	27	.406	.553	.735	1.287	235	335
2	Ted Williams	.388	420	1957	38	BOS	AL	132	547	420	96	163	96	28	1	38	87	0	1	119	43	.388	.526	.731	1.257	233	307
3	Rod Carew	.388	616	1977	31	MIN	AL	155	694	616	128	239	171	38	16	14	100	23	13	69	55	.388	.449	.570	1.019	178	351
4	George Brett	.390	449	1980	27	KCR	AL	117	515	449	87	175	109	33	9	24	118	15	6	58	22	.390	.454	.664	1.118	203	298
5	Tony Gwynn	.394	419	1994	34	SDP	NL	110	475	419	79	165	117	35	1	12	64	5	0	48	19	.394	.454	.568	1.022	169	238
6	Luis Arraez	.403	216	2023	26	MIA	NL	58	239	216	26	87	70	15	1	1	30	1	2	19	11	.403	.452	.495	.947	161	107

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Generated 6/8/2023.

Luis Arraez

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and First Baseman

Bats: Left  •  Throws: Right

5-10, 175lb (178cm, 79kg)

Team: Miami Marlins (majors)

Born: April 9, 1997 (Age: 26-060d) in San Felipe, Venezuela ve

Last 5 Games

 

Date	Tm		Opp	Result	Pos	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	GIDP	SF	SH
2023-06-07	MIA		KCR	W 6-1	2B	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2023-06-06	MIA		KCR	W 6-1	2B	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2023-06-05	MIA		KCR	W 9-6	2B	4	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2023-06-04	MIA		OAK	W 7-5	2B	4	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2023-06-03	MIA		OAK	W 12-1	2B	5	1	5	3	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 6/8/2023.

Luis Arraez has played only 58 games, 216 AB, but Luis Arraez has been hot in his five most recent games raising his BA to .403.

Batting Average

1.	Arraez • MIA	.403
2.	Bichette • TOR	.331
3.	Acuña • ATL	.331
4.	Freeman • LAD	.328
5.	Yoshida • BOS	.318
6.	Díaz • TBR	.316
7.	Castellanos • PHI	.315
8.	Gurriel • ARI	.310
9.	Franco • TBR	.308
10.	Meneses • WSN	.305

Arraez is 72 points (22%) ahead of any other MLB player. 

Here are the latest games with .400 BA in the season for the players listed at the top. Note that Brett played only 117 games in 1980 and, in the short 1994 season,Gwynn played only 110. So Arraez is about half way to them: 116.

		Gp	Gtm	dif	BA
Carew	Sun, Jul 10, 1977	81	85	4	.401
Brett	Fri, Sep 19, 1980	104	148	44	.40050	in game
Gwynn	Sun, May 15, 1994	30	36	6	.408
Williams	Wed, Jun 5, 1957	41	46	5	.401

Gwynn got three hits in each of the two previous games. But since it was so early in the abbreviated season, which ended in August, Gwynn never really had a chance to hit .400.

In team game 148 Brett went 2 for 4, which rounded up to .400. But when I checked his game ending totals, it was actually below. But Brett went hit, hit, out, out. So even after his first out Brett was hitting .400. So, I used this game rather than Sept. 4, 1980 when his season BA was .401. That was team game 135 and game 100 for Brett.

ABx	Hx	BAx	Rk	Gcar	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	PA	AB	R	H
399	159	.39850	103	988	147	Sep 18	KCR		CAL	W,5-2	CG	4	3	0	2
400	160	.40000													1
401	161	.40150													1
402	161	.40050													0
403	161	.39950													0
			104	989	148	Sep 19	KCR		OAK	W,13-3	CG	5	4	2	2

Brett did not play Sept. 7 through game one of a doubleheader Sept. 17 in 1980, missing nine team games. See Brett's 1980 game log.

Ted Williams: the mythology of the final games of 1941. Thursday, October 13, 2011