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Baseball Leaders & Baseball Records: Single-Season Career Active Progressive Year-by-Year Top-Tens Yearly League

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Statistic Description: Defensive Games PlayedGames played at this position.

For batting rate stats, generally a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances/G, 1.0 IP/G, 0.67 Gm and Chances/Team Game (fielding), 0.2 SB att/Team Game (catchers), and 0.1 SB att/Team Game (baserunners only since 1951), and 0.1 decision/G for single-season leaderboards generally needed for rate statistics. For pitcher fielding the minimums are reduced by a third. For LF, CF, RF fielding stats, we only have reliable data since 1954, so all leaders are since 1954. Explanation of min. requirements

Minimum of 1000 IP, 3000 PA, 500 games (fielding), 200 stolen base attempts (catchers) or 80 stolen base attempts (baserunners only since 1951) or 100 decisions for career and active leaderboards for rate statistics.

This table lists the career, single-season, active, yearly (meaning perfomances solely from that year) leaders following each season of Major League Baseball. Note that a player is considered active between the first and last season of their career. Entries under Single-Season from 1871-1875 are not carried forward past 1875. Entries under Career and Active do include totals from the 1871-1875 seasons.

Year	Career	G	Single-Season	G	Active	G	Yearly	G
1871	Rynie Wolters	32	Rynie Wolters	32	Rynie Wolters	32	Rynie Wolters	32
1872	Al Spalding+	79	Candy Cummings+	55	Al Spalding+	79	Candy Cummings+	55
1873	Al Spalding+	139	Al Spalding+	60	Al Spalding+	139	Al Spalding+	60
1874	Al Spalding+	210	Al Spalding+	71	Al Spalding+	210	Al Spalding+	71
1875	Al Spalding+	282	Al Spalding+	72	Al Spalding+	282	Al Spalding+	72

1876	Al Spalding+	343	Jim Devlin	68	Al Spalding+	343	Jim Devlin	68
1877	Al Spalding+	347	Jim Devlin	68	Al Spalding+	347	Jim Devlin	61
1878	Al Spalding+	347	Jim Devlin	68	Tommy Bond	257	Tommy Bond	59
1879	Bobby Mathews	353	Will White	76	Bobby Mathews	353	Will White	76
1880	Tommy Bond	384	Will White	76	Tommy Bond	384	Lee Richmond Jim McCormick	74
1881	Tommy Bond	387	Will White	76	Tommy Bond	387	Jim Whitney	66
1882	Bobby Mathews	406	Will White	76	Bobby Mathews	406	Jim McCormick	68
1883	Bobby Mathews	450	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Bobby Mathews	450	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76
1884	Bobby Mathews	499	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Bobby Mathews	499	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Guy Hecker	75
1885	Bobby Mathews	547	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Bobby Mathews	547	John Clarkson+	70
1886	Bobby Mathews	571	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Bobby Mathews	571	Matt Kilroy	68
1887	Bobby Mathews	578	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Bobby Mathews	578	Matt Kilroy	69
1888	Pud Galvin+	581	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Pud Galvin+	581	Silver King	66
1889	Pud Galvin+	622	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Pud Galvin+	622	John Clarkson+	73
1890	Pud Galvin+	648	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Pud Galvin+	648	Bill Hutchinson	71
1891	Pud Galvin+	681	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Pud Galvin+	681	Bill Hutchinson	66
1892	Pud Galvin+	705	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Pud Galvin+	705	Bill Hutchinson	75
1893	Pud Galvin+	705	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Tim Keefe+	600	Amos Rusie+	56
1894	Pud Galvin+	705	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Tony Mullane	555	Ted Breitenstein	56
1895	Pud Galvin+	705	Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+	76	Gus Weyhing	429	Pink Hawley	56
1896	Pud Galvin+	705	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Adonis Terry	439	Frank Killen	52
1897	Pud Galvin+	705	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Adonis Terry	440	Win Mercer	47
1898	Pud Galvin+	705	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Gus Weyhing	479	Kid Nichols+ Jack Taylor	50
1899	Pud Galvin+	705	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Gus Weyhing	522	Sam Leever	51
1900	Pud Galvin+	705	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Gus Weyhing	537	Bill Carrick	45
1901	Pud Galvin+	705	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Kid Nichols+	557	Joe McGinnity+	48
1902	Pud Galvin+	705	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Cy Young+	593	Vic Willis+	51
1903	Pud Galvin+	705	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Cy Young+	633	Joe McGinnity+	55
1904	Pud Galvin+	705	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Cy Young+	676	Jack Chesbro+	55
1905	Cy Young+	714	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Cy Young+	714	Joe McGinnity+ Rube Waddell+ Togie Pittinger	46
1906	Cy Young+	753	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Cy Young+	753	Jack Chesbro+	49
1907	Cy Young+	796	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Cy Young+	796	Ed Walsh+	56
1908	Cy Young+	832	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Cy Young+	832	Ed Walsh+	66
1909	Cy Young+	867	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Cy Young+	867	Frank Smith	51
1910	Cy Young+	888	Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+	76	Cy Young+	888	Al Mattern	51
1911	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Cy Young+	906	Ed Walsh+	56
1912	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Jack Powell	578	Ed Walsh+	62
1913	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Christy Mathewson+	555	Larry Cheney	54
1914	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Christy Mathewson+	596	Walter Johnson+	51
1915	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Christy Mathewson+	623	Dave Davenport	55
1916	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Christy Mathewson+	636	Dave Davenport	59
1917	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Eddie Plank+	623	Phil Douglas	51
1918	Cy Young+	906	Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+	76	Red Ames	507	Jim Bagby George Mogridge	45
1919	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Walter Johnson+	544	Jim Shaw Oscar Tuero	45
1920	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Walter Johnson+	565	Jim Bagby	48
1921	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Walter Johnson+	600	Carl Mays	49
1922	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Walter Johnson+	641	Lou North	53
1923	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Walter Johnson+	683	Eddie Rommel	56
1924	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Walter Johnson+	721	Firpo Marberry	50
1925	Cy Young+	906	Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+	76	Walter Johnson+	751	Firpo Marberry	55
1926	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Walter Johnson+	784	Firpo Marberry	64
1927	Cy Young+	906	Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+	76	Walter Johnson+	802	Garland Braxton	58
1928	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Pete Alexander+	665	Burleigh Grimes+ Firpo Marberry	48
1929	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Pete Alexander+	687	Guy Bush	50
1930	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Pete Alexander+	696	Lefty Grove+	50
1931	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Jack Quinn	700	Bump Hadley	55
1932	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Jack Quinn	742	Firpo Marberry	54
1933	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Jack Quinn	756	General Crowder	52
1934	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Sad Sam Jones	626	Jack Russell	54
1935	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Sad Sam Jones	647	Russ Van Atta	58
1936	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Waite Hoyt+	630	Russ Van Atta	52
1937	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Waite Hoyt+	668	Hugh Mulcahy	56
1938	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Waite Hoyt+	674	Mace Brown Dick Coffman	51
1939	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Charlie Root	577	Clint Brown	61
1940	Cy Young+	906	Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+	76	Charlie Root	613	Clyde Shoun	54
1941	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Charlie Root	632	Kirby Higbe	48
1942	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Red Ruffing+	596	Ace Adams	61
1943	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Carl Hubbell+	535	Ace Adams	70
1944	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Paul Derringer	544	Ace Adams	65
1945	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Red Ruffing+	607	Andy Karl	67
1946	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Red Ruffing+	615	Ken Trinkle Bob Feller+	48
1947	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Red Ruffing+	624	Ken Trinkle	62
1948	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Bobo Newsom	559	Harry Gumbert	61
1949	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Harry Gumbert	507	Joe Page	60
1950	Cy Young+	906	Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+	76	Dutch Leonard	509	Jim Konstanty	74
1951	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Dutch Leonard	550	Ted Wilks	65
1952	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Dutch Leonard	595	Hoyt Wilhelm+	71
1953	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Dutch Leonard	640	Ellis Kinder	69
1954	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Bob Feller+	526	Jim Hughes	60
1955	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Bob Feller+	551	Clem Labine Ray Narleski	60
1956	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Bob Feller+	570	Roy Face	68
1957	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Murry Dickson	554	Turk Lown	67
1958	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Murry Dickson	587	Don Elston	69
1959	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White	76	Murry Dickson	625	Gerry Staley	67
1960	Cy Young+	906	Will White Pud Galvin+ Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Early Wynn+	627	Mike Fornieles	70
1961	Cy Young+	906	Pud Galvin+ Will White Old Hoss Radbourn+	76	Early Wynn+	644	Jack Baldschun Luis Arroyo	65
1962	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Pud Galvin+ Will White	76	Early Wynn+	671	Ron Perranoski	70
1963	Cy Young+	906	Old Hoss Radbourn+ Will White Pud Galvin+	76	Early Wynn+	691	Stu Miller	71
1964	Cy Young+	906	John Wyatt	81	Warren Spahn+	714	John Wyatt	81
1965	Cy Young+	906	Ted Abernathy	84	Hoyt Wilhelm+	770	Ted Abernathy	84
1966	Cy Young+	906	Ted Abernathy	84	Hoyt Wilhelm+	816	Clay Carroll	73
1967	Cy Young+	906	Ted Abernathy	84	Hoyt Wilhelm+	865	Bob Locker	77
1968	Hoyt Wilhelm+	937	Wilbur Wood	88	Hoyt Wilhelm+	937	Wilbur Wood	88
1969	Hoyt Wilhelm+	989	Wayne Granger	90	Hoyt Wilhelm+	989	Wayne Granger	90
1970	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1042	Wayne Granger	90	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1042	Mudcat Grant	80
1971	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1054	Wayne Granger	90	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1054	Ken Sanders	83
1972	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Wayne Granger	90	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Paul Lindblad	66
1973	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	92	Lindy McDaniel	909	Mike Marshall	92
1974	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Lindy McDaniel	947	Mike Marshall	106
1975	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Lindy McDaniel	987	Rollie Fingers+	75
1976	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Clay Carroll	670	Dale Murray	81
1977	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Clay Carroll	729	Rollie Fingers+	78
1978	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Clay Carroll	731	Kent Tekulve	91
1979	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Darold Knowles	763	Kent Tekulve	94
1980	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Sparky Lyle	806	Dick Tidrow	84
1981	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Sparky Lyle	854	Gary Lucas	57
1982	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Sparky Lyle	899	Kent Tekulve	85
1983	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Jim Kaat	898	Bill Campbell	82
1984	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Rollie Fingers+	897	Willie Hernandez	80
1985	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Rollie Fingers+	944	Dan Quisenberry	84
1986	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Kent Tekulve	853	Craig Lefferts	83
1987	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Kent Tekulve	943	Kent Tekulve	90
1988	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Kent Tekulve	1013	Rob Murphy	76
1989	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Kent Tekulve	1050	Chuck Crim Mitch Williams	76
1990	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Charlie Hough	745	Juan Agosto	82
1991	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Rich Gossage+	897	Duane Ward	81
1992	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Rich Gossage+	927	Joe Boever Kenny Rogers	81
1993	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Rich Gossage+	966	Michael Jackson	81
1994	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Rich Gossage+	1002	Steve Reed	61
1995	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Lee Smith	943	Curt Leskanic	76
1996	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Lee Smith	997	Eddie Guardado Mike Myers	83
1997	Hoyt Wilhelm+	1070	Mike Marshall	106	Lee Smith	1022	Julian Tavarez	89
1998	Dennis Eckersley+	1071	Mike Marshall	106	Dennis Eckersley+	1071	Sean Runyan	88
1999	Jesse Orosco	1090	Mike Marshall	106	Jesse Orosco	1090	Steve Kline	82
2000	Jesse Orosco	1096	Mike Marshall	106	Jesse Orosco	1096	Steve Kline Kelly Wunsch	83
2001	Jesse Orosco	1131	Mike Marshall	106	Jesse Orosco	1131	Steve Kline	89
2002	Jesse Orosco	1187	Mike Marshall	106	Jesse Orosco	1187	Paul Quantrill	86
2003	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	Jesse Orosco	1252	Paul Quantrill	89
2004	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	John Franco	1088	Jim Brower	89
2005	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	John Franco	1119	Scott Eyre	86
2006	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	Mike Stanton	1109	Salomon Torres	94
2007	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	Mike Stanton	1178	Jon Rauch	88
2008	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	Mike Timlin	1058	Pedro Feliciano	86
2009	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	Trevor Hoffman	985	Pedro Feliciano	88
2010	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	Trevor Hoffman	1035	Pedro Feliciano	92
2011	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	Mariano Rivera	1042	Jonny Venters	85
2012	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	Mariano Rivera	1051	Randy Choate Boone Logan Matt Belisle Shawn Camp	80
2013	Jesse Orosco	1252	Mike Marshall	106	Mariano Rivera	1069	Brad Ziegler Scott Rice	22

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