noun
(baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance; the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances (Freq. 1)
• Topics: ↑baseball, ↑baseball game
• Hypernyms: ↑average
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noun : a ratio in baseball obtained by dividing the number of total chances into the total of putouts and assists
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Baseball.
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.
[1945-50]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.