page_title: Batting average (baseball)
section_title: Nippon Professional Baseball
hierarchical_section_title: Batting average (baseball) / All-time leaders / Nippon Professional Baseball
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 東京ヤクルトスワローズ　青木宣親　２０１８年４月７日　神宮球場
context_page_description: In baseball, the batting average is the number of hits divided by at bats. It is usually rounded to three decimal places and read without the decimal: A player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three-hundred." If necessary to break ties, batting averages could be taken beyond the .001 measurement. In this context, .001 is considered a "point," such that a .235 batter is 5 points higher than a .230 batter.
context_section_description: In Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), the leader in career batting average is Nori Aoki, an active player who has hit .326 in his NPB career, as of September 2019. Aoki played in MLB from 2012 to 2017, where he compiled a .285 average. Ichiro Suzuki batted .353 in NPB, but does not have enough NPB career at-bats to qualify for that league's title.
caption: Nori Aoki is the NPB career batting average leader.
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