fielding average


nounBaseball.
  1. a measure of the fielding ability of a player, obtained by dividing the number of put-outs and assists by the number of put-outs, assists, and errors and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A player with ten errors in 600 chances has a fielding average of .984.

Origin of fielding average

1
First recorded in 1945–50

Words Nearby fielding average

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How to use fielding average in a sentence

  • With his fielding average quite intact he came in to face the crisis.

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