200+ Hits, Batting Average below .300

This is another recycled Brew Crew Ball post, so visitors from there please bear with me. In all of baseball history, only 46 times has a player put up more than 667 at bats and more than 200 hits in a single season. Matty Alou (2), Dave Cash (2), Juan Pierre (3), Pete Rose (2), Ichiro Suzuki (5), and Michael Young (3), are the only players to do it multiple times. The reason I set those parameters is simply because going 200 for 667 results in a .29985 batting average, slightly below .300 (without rounding).

Only nine (now ten) players have ever put up a batting average less than .30000 with over 200 hits in that season. When you trim that to a rounded off average of .300 or less, you can add a tenth (now eleventh). Here's the players:

Name	Year	Hits	At Bats	AVG	OBP	SLG
Jo-Jo Moore	1935	201	681	.29515	.353	.429
Maury Wills	1962	208	695	.29928	.347	.373
Lou Brock	1967	206	689	.29898	.327	.472
Matty Alou	1970	201	677	.29690	.329	.356
Ralph Garr	1973	200	668	.29940	.323	.415
Dave Cash	1974	206	687	.29985	.351	.378
Buddy Bell	1979	200	670	.29851	.327	.451
Bill Buckner	1985	201	673	.29866	.325	.447
Alfonso Soriano	2002	209	696	.30029	.332	.547
Juan Pierre	2006	204	699	.29185	.330	.388
Jimmy Rollins	2007	212	716	.29609	.344	.531

Juan Pierre has the worst batting average of any of the players ever to do this, by a relatively wide margin. He's right in the middle of the pack for on-base percentage, however, which is unsurprising given how little you must walk to even get 667 AB in the first place. A player at every position except catcher (and they probably shouldn't count, since even the best don't play every game) has done it.

EDIT: Jimmy Rollins made the list for 2007 with 212 hits in 716 at bats, good for a .29609 average.