fielding average

1. 1.

   (baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance; the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances

   Broaderaverage

   baseball

Questions about fielding average

What does fielding average mean?

fielding average means "(baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance; the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances".

Is fielding average a common word?

fielding average is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.