The typical everyday player in the MLB plays 150 games over a 26.5 week season and has 4.2 plate appearances per game. That’s a total of 630 plate appearances for the season.
The average batting average of hall of famers is .303, which equates to 7.2 hits per week based on 630 plate appearances per season(*).
If a player hits just one less weekly, that’s 6.2 per week, equating to an average of 0.258. Only three non-pitchers in the hall of fame have less than a 0.260 batting average, and they were exceptional in other ways.
The difference between a hall of famer and an all-but-forgotten player is one hit per week (or less).
Let that sink in.
One hit per week.
How much effort over how much time would it take you to average one more hit per week?
Is it worth it? Only you can answer that.
* (Technical note: Plate appearances are not the same as at-bats. But using PAs in this calculation is worst case. If we use ABs, it gets even crazier)
