American League Batting Leaders

Wins Above Replacement--all

<strong>Wins Above Replacement</strong><br>A single number that presents the number of wins the player added<br>to the team above what a replacement player (think AAA or AAAA) would add.<br>Scale for a single-season: 8+ MVP Quality, 5+ All-Star Quality, 2+ Starter,<br>0-2 Reserve, < 0 Replacement Level <br>Developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Johnson • WSH 11.2
2. Ruth • BOS 10.4
3. Speaker • CLE 8.9
4. Cobb • DET 8.0
5. Jackson • CHW 7.1
6. Collins • CHW 7.0
7. Coveleski • DET 7.0
8. Shawkey • NYY 6.7
9. Mays • BOS 5.6
10. Strunk • PHA 5.6

WAR Position Players

<strong>Wins Above Replacement for position players</strong><br>A single number that presents the number of wins the player added<br>to the team above what a replacement player (think AAA or AAAA) would add.<br>Scale: 8+ MVP Quality, 5+ All-Star Quality, 2+ Starter,<br>0-2 Reserve, < 0 Replacement Level <br> Developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Speaker • CLE 8.9
2. Cobb • DET 8.0
3. Jackson • CHW 7.1
4. Collins • CHW 7.0
5. Strunk • PHA 5.6
6. Veach • DET 5.0
7. Pratt • SLB 4.9
8. Shotton • SLB 4.7
9. Peckinpaugh • NYY 4.6
10. Pipp • NYY 4.3

Offensive WAR

<strong>Offensive Wins Above Replacement (everything but Fielding)</strong><br>The same statistic as Wins Above Replacement for Position<br>Players (WAR), but with the fielding value excluded.<br>oWAR + dWAR does not equal WAR.<br>Adding would count positions twice.<br>Contains the factor for batting stats, baserunning, a positional adjustment, and the replacement player adjustment.<br> Factors developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Speaker • CLE 8.8
2. Cobb • DET 8.7
3. Jackson • CHW 6.8
4. Collins • CHW 6.2
5. Strunk • PHA 5.5
6. Pratt • SLB 4.5
7. Veach • DET 4.4
8. Shotton • SLB 4.2
9. Gardner • BOS 4.2
Sisler • SLB 4.2

Defensive WAR

<strong>Defensive Wins Above Replacement for position players</strong><br>A defensive measure of wins above replacement, but given<br>only the defensive stats of the player and his position adjustment. For this calculation, we use a<br>replacement level on defense is the league average.<br>Based on Baseball Info Solutions defensive runs saved from 2003 on<br>and total zone rating developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com previously

1. Vitt • DET 2.5
2. Walters • NYY 2.5
3. Lavan • SLB 2.1
4. McBride • WSH 2.0
5. Peckinpaugh • NYY 2.0
6. Schalk • CHW 1.9
7. Scott • BOS 1.5
8. Weaver • CHW 1.3
9. Haley • 2TM 1.2
10. O'Neill • CLE 1.2

Batting Average

<strong>Hits/At Bats</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 3.1 PA<br>per team game played<br>Bold indicates either highest BA using current stats<br>or awarded title at end of year.

1. Speaker • CLE .386
2. Cobb • DET .370
3. Jackson • CHW .341
4. Strunk • PHA .316
5. Gardner • BOS .308
6. Collins • CHW .308
7. Veach • DET .306
8. Sisler • SLB .305
9. Felsch • CHW .300
10. McInnis • PHA .295

On-Base%

<strong>(H + BB + HBP)/(At Bats + BB + HBP + SF)</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 3.1 PA<br>per team game played

1. Speaker • CLE .470
2. Cobb • DET .451
3. Collins • CHW .405
4. Morgan • WSH .398
5. Jackson • CHW .393
6. Strunk • PHA .393
7. Shotton • SLB .392
8. Gardner • BOS .372
9. Miller • SLB .371
10. Veach • DET .367

Slugging %

Total Bases/At Bats or
(1B + 2*2B + 3*3B + 4*HR)/AB
For recent years, leaders need 3.1 PA
per team game played

1. Speaker • CLE .502
2. Jackson • CHW .495
3. Cobb • DET .492
4. Veach • DET .433
5. Baker • NYY .428
6. Felsch • CHW .427
7. Strunk • PHA .421
8. Schang • PHA .420
9. Pipp • NYY .417
10. Heilmann • DET .410

On-Base Plus Slugging

<strong>On-Base + Slugging Percentages </strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 3.1 PA<br>per team game played

1. Speaker • CLE .972
2. Cobb • DET .943
3. Jackson • CHW .888
4. Strunk • PHA .814
5. Collins • CHW .802
6. Veach • DET .800
7. Schang • PHA .778
8. Baker • NYY .772
9. Felsch • CHW .768
10. Crawford • DET .760

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Pratt • SLB 158
Foster • WSH 158
3. Shotton • SLB 156
4. Collins • CHW 155
Jackson • CHW 155
Graney • CLE 155
7. Vitt • DET 153
Young • DET 153
9. Lewis • BOS 152
10. Hooper • BOS 151
Weaver • CHW 151
Speaker • CLE 151
Pipp • NYY 151
Marsans • SLB 151
Sisler • SLB 151

At Bats

At Bats

1. Shotton • SLB 614
2. Foster • WSH 606
3. Vitt • DET 597
4. Pratt • SLB 596
5. Jackson • CHW 592
6. Graney • CLE 589
7. Weaver • CHW 582
8. Sisler • SLB 580
9. Hooper • BOS 575
10. Veach • DET 566

Plate Appearances

<strong>Plate Appearances</strong><br>When available, we use actual plate appearances from play-by-play game accounts<br>Otherwise estimated using AB + BB + HBP + SF + SH,<br>which excludes catcher interferences.<br>When <span class=tooltip>this color</span> click for a summary of each PA.

1. Shotton • SLB 728
2. Vitt • DET 706
3. Graney • CLE 702
4. Foster • WSH 691
5. Collins • CHW 675
6. Hooper • BOS 671
Pratt • SLB 671
8. Weaver • CHW 669
9. Jackson • CHW 659
10. Bush • DET 657

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Cobb • DET 113
2. Graney • CLE 106
3. Speaker • CLE 102
4. Shotton • SLB 97
5. Veach • DET 92
6. Jackson • CHW 91
7. Vitt • DET 88
8. Collins • CHW 87
9. Sisler • SLB 83
10. Weaver • CHW 78

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Speaker • CLE 211
2. Jackson • CHW 202
3. Cobb • DET 201
4. Sisler • SLB 177
5. Shotton • SLB 174
6. Veach • DET 173
7. Strunk • PHA 172
8. Collins • CHW 168
9. Felsch • CHW 164
10. Pratt • SLB 159

Total Bases

<strong>Total Bases</strong><br>Singles + 2 x Doubles + 3 x Triples + 4 x Home Runs.

1. Jackson • CHW 293
2. Speaker • CLE 274
3. Cobb • DET 267
4. Veach • DET 245
5. Felsch • CHW 233
Pratt • SLB 233
7. Sisler • SLB 232
8. Strunk • PHA 229
9. Pipp • NYY 227
10. Graney • CLE 226

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Graney • CLE 41
Speaker • CLE 41
3. Jackson • CHW 40
4. Pratt • SLB 35
5. Veach • DET 33
6. Cobb • DET 31
7. Heilmann • DET 30
Strunk • PHA 30
9. Lewis • BOS 29
Walker • BOS 29

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Jackson • CHW 21
2. Collins • CHW 17
3. Veach • DET 15
Witt • PHA 15
5. Graney • CLE 14
Pipp • NYY 14
7. Crawford • DET 13
8. Collins • CHW 12
Felsch • CHW 12
Vitt • DET 12
Pratt • SLB 12

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Pipp • NYY 12
2. Baker • NYY 10
3. Felsch • CHW 7
Schang • PHA 7
5. Smith • 2TM 5
Pratt • SLB 5
Cobb • DET 5
Graney • CLE 5
9. Sisler • SLB 4
Peckinpaugh • NYY 4
Burns • DET 4
Roth • CLE 4

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Pratt • SLB 103
2. Pipp • NYY 93
3. Veach • DET 89
4. Speaker • CLE 79
5. Jackson • CHW 78
6. Heilmann • DET 77
7. Sisler • SLB 76
8. Burns • DET 73
9. Gandil • CLE 72
Roth • CLE 72

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Shotton • SLB 110
2. Graney • CLE 102
3. Collins • CHW 86
4. Speaker • CLE 82
5. Hooper • BOS 80
6. Cobb • DET 78
7. Bush • DET 75
Vitt • DET 75
9. Austin • SLB 74
10. Miller • SLB 72

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Pipp • NYY 82
2. Miller • SLB 76
3. Graney • CLE 72
4. Witt • PHA 71
5. Felsch • CHW 67
6. Shotton • SLB 65
7. Smith • 2TM 63
8. Gedeon • NYY 61
9. Strunk • PHA 59
Austin • SLB 59

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Cobb • DET 68
2. Marsans • SLB 46
3. Shotton • SLB 41
4. Collins • CHW 40
5. Speaker • CLE 35
6. Sisler • SLB 34
Milan • WSH 34
8. Schalk • CHW 30
Walsh • 2TM 30
10. Roth • CLE 29
Magee • NYY 29

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Speaker • CLE 160
2. Cobb • DET 155
3. Shotton • SLB 144
4. Sisler • SLB 141
5. Jackson • CHW 138
6. Collins • CHW 137
7. Milan • WSH 136
8. Strunk • PHA 130
9. Foster • WSH 125
10. Gardner • BOS 124
Hooper • BOS 124

Adjusted OPS+

<strong>OPS+</strong><br>100*[OBP/lg OBP + SLG/lg SLG - 1]<br>Adjusted to the player&#x2019;s ballpark(s)

1. Speaker • CLE 186
2. Cobb • DET 179
3. Jackson • CHW 166
4. Strunk • PHA 151
5. Collins • CHW 140
6. Schang • PHA 140
7. Veach • DET 136
8. Sisler • SLB 133
9. Baker • NYY 130
10. Felsch • CHW 130

Runs Created

<strong>Runs Created</strong><br>A set of formulas developed by Bill James and others<br>that estimates a player&#x2019;s total contributions<br>to a team&#x2019;s runs total.<br>This is computed with the "technical" formula when possible.<br>If SB or CS data is missing, the "basic" formula is used.<br>If HBP, IBB, SH, SF, or GIDP data is missing, the "stolen base" version of the formula is used. <br>Team Runs Created is the sum of player Runs Created.

1. Cobb • DET 125
2. Speaker • CLE 124
3. Jackson • CHW 112
4. Collins • CHW 88
Veach • DET 88
6. Strunk • PHA 85
7. Shotton • SLB 83
8. Graney • CLE 80
9. Felsch • CHW 79
10. Sisler • SLB 77

Adj. Batting Runs

<strong>Adjusted Batting Runs</strong><br>A set of formulas developed by Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer and others<br>that estimates a player&#x2019;s total contributions<br>to a team&#x2019;s runs total via linear weights.<br>0.0 is an avg performance, <0 is worse than avg and >0 is better than avg

1. Speaker • CLE 64
2. Cobb • DET 56
3. Jackson • CHW 45
4. Strunk • PHA 35
5. Collins • CHW 30
6. Shotton • SLB 27
7. Veach • DET 24
8. Sisler • SLB 20
9. Gardner • BOS 16
10. Schang • PHA 16

Adj. Batting Wins

<strong>Adjusted Batting Wins</strong><br>A set of formulas developed by Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer and others<br>that estimates a player&#x2019;s total contributions<br>to a team&#x2019;s wins with his bat.<br>0.0 is an avg performance, <0 is worse than avg and >0 is better than avg

1. Speaker • CLE 7.1
2. Cobb • DET 6.3
3. Jackson • CHW 5.0
4. Strunk • PHA 3.9
5. Collins • CHW 3.3
6. Shotton • SLB 3.1
7. Veach • DET 2.7
8. Sisler • SLB 2.3
9. Gardner • BOS 1.9
10. Schang • PHA 1.8

Extra Base Hits

<strong>Extra Base Hits</strong><br>Doubles + Triples + Home Runs

1. Jackson • CHW 64
2. Graney • CLE 60
3. Pratt • SLB 52
4. Speaker • CLE 51
Veach • DET 51
6. Cobb • DET 46
Pipp • NYY 46
8. Walker • BOS 43
Felsch • CHW 43
Heilmann • DET 43

Times On Base

<strong>Times on Base</strong><br>Hits + Bases on Balls + Hit By Pitch<br>Does not include Reached on Error or Catcher Interference.

1. Speaker • CLE 297
2. Shotton • SLB 284
3. Cobb • DET 281
4. Collins • CHW 257
5. Jackson • CHW 253
6. Graney • CLE 246
7. Strunk • PHA 241
8. Hooper • BOS 237
9. Veach • DET 228
10. Foster • WSH 225

Offensive Win %

<strong>Offensive Winning Percentage</strong><br>The percentage of games a team with nine of this player<br>batting would win. Assumes average pitching and defense.<br>This uses the Pythagorean win pct formula with the player's RC/G for runs scored and the league's R/9 as runs allowed.

1. Cobb • DET .850
Speaker • CLE .850
3. Jackson • CHW .794
4. Strunk • PHA .704
5. Veach • DET .703
6. Collins • CHW .699
7. Felsch • CHW .696
8. Baker • NYY .690
9. Gardner • BOS .685
10. Crawford • DET .680

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Barry • BOS 17
2. Weaver • CHW 13
3. Schang • PHA 10
Morgan • WSH 10
5. Howard • CLE 9
Miller • SLB 9
7. Ness • CHW 7
Burns • DET 7
9. Schalk • CHW 6
Terry • CHW 6
Marsans • SLB 6
Henry • WSH 6

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Weaver • CHW 44
2. Chapman • CLE 40
3. Collins • CHW 39
4. Vitt • DET 32
5. Scott • BOS 30
Wambsganss • CLE 30
7. Barry • BOS 28
Miller • SLB 28
9. Gandil • CLE 27
Turner • CLE 27
Bush • DET 27

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Shotton • SLB 28
2. Speaker • CLE 27
3. Sisler • SLB 26
Marsans • SLB 26
5. Magee • NYY 25
6. Cobb • DET 24
7. Strunk • PHA 23
8. Collins • CHW 21
Milan • WSH 21
Miller • SLB 21

Power-Speed #

<strong>Power/Speed Number</strong><br>2 x (Home Runs x Stolen Bases)/(Stolen Bases + Home Runs)<br>The harmonic mean of HR and SB.<br>To do well you need a lot of both.<br>Developed by Bill James.

1. Pipp • NYY 13.7
2. Baker • NYY 12.0
3. Schang • PHA 9.3
4. Cobb • DET 9.3
5. Felsch • CHW 9.1
6. Pratt • SLB 8.4
7. Sisler • SLB 7.2
8. Roth • CLE 7.0
9. Graney • CLE 6.7
10. Peckinpaugh • NYY 6.5

AB per SO

<strong>At Bats Per Strikeout</strong><br>For career marks this only includes AB&#x2019;s for seasons where SO&#x2019;s were tracked.

1. Crawford • DET 32.2
2. Speaker • CLE 27.3
3. McInnis • PHA 26.9
4. Jackson • CHW 23.7
5. Foster • WSH 23.3
6. Vitt • DET 21.3
7. Gardner • BOS 18.3
8. Milan • WSH 18.2
9. Severeid • SLB 17.2
10. Thomas • BOS 16.6

AB per HR

<strong>At Bats Per Home Run</strong>

1. Baker • NYY 36.0
2. Pipp • NYY 45.4
3. Schang • PHA 48.3
4. Smith • 2TM 76.2
5. Felsch • CHW 78.0
6. Roth • CLE 102.3
7. Fournier • CHW 104.3
8. Cobb • DET 108.6
9. Graney • CLE 117.8
10. Pratt • SLB 119.2

Outs Made

<strong>Outs Made</strong><br>(At Bats - Hits) + Double Plays Grounded Into <br>+ Sac. Flies + Sac. Hits + Caught Stealing.

1. Weaver • CHW 507
2. Vitt • DET 494
3. Foster • WSH 476
4. Shotton • SLB 472
5. Pratt • SLB 470
6. Graney • CLE 456
7. Bush • DET 453
8. Sisler • SLB 448
9. Hooper • BOS 444
Milan • WSH 444

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)

<strong>Base-Out Runs Added</strong><br>Given the bases occupied/out situation, how many runs did the batter<br> or baserunner add in the resulting play.<br>Compared to average, so 0 is average, and above 0 is better than average

1. Speaker • CLE 54.06
2. Cobb • DET 46.03
3. Jackson • CHW 40.73
4. Roth • CLE 32.18
5. Pipp • NYY 30.01
6. Felsch • CHW 28.84
7. Heilmann • DET 28.53
8. Veach • DET 28.13
9. Pratt • SLB 23.80
10. Strunk • PHA 22.42

Win Probability Added (WPA)

<strong>Win Probability Added for Offensive Player</strong><br>Given average teams, this is the change in probability<br>caused by this batter during the game.<br>A change of +/- 1 would indicate one win added or lost.

1. Speaker • CLE 6.0
2. Cobb • DET 4.4
3. Felsch • CHW 4.0
4. Veach • DET 3.9
5. Pipp • NYY 3.7
6. Jackson • CHW 3.4
7. Roth • CLE 2.5
8. Strunk • PHA 2.5
9. Sisler • SLB 2.4
10. Heilmann • DET 2.0

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)

<strong>Situational Wins (WPA/LI)</strong><br>It is the sum of WPA divided by the leverage index for each play.<br>WPA depends greatly on the context of the at bats.<br>This stat does not.

1. Cobb • DET 5.0
2. Speaker • CLE 4.5
3. Jackson • CHW 3.4
4. Strunk • PHA 3.1
5. Veach • DET 2.7
6. Collins • CHW 2.1
Felsch • CHW 2.1
8. Pipp • NYY 2.1
9. Shotton • SLB 1.9
10. Pratt • SLB 1.8

Championship WPA (cWPA)

<strong>Championship Win Probability Added for Offensive Player</strong><br>Given average teams, this is the change in probability, displayed in percentage points.<br>A change of +/- 100% would indicate one world series win added or lost.

1. Speaker • CLE 17.8
2. Cobb • DET 12.7
3. Felsch • CHW 12.6
4. Hooper • BOS 11.0
5. Collins • CHW 8.9
6. Roth • CLE 8.1
7. Jackson • CHW 7.5
8. Heilmann • DET 7.5
9. Gardner • BOS 7.2
10. Veach • DET 6.9

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)

<strong>Base-Out Wins Added (REW)</strong><br>This is the number of wins above average the player was worth by their performance measured by the 24 <br>base-out situations across every play in the game.

1. Speaker • CLE 5.9
2. Cobb • DET 5.1
3. Jackson • CHW 4.6
4. Roth • CLE 3.5
5. Pipp • NYY 3.4
6. Felsch • CHW 3.2
7. Heilmann • DET 3.2
8. Veach • DET 3.1
9. Pratt • SLB 2.8
10. Strunk • PHA 2.6

rOBA

rOBA
A measure of a player's offensive contributions, weighted in proportion to each event's actual run value

1. Speaker • CLE .478
2. Cobb • DET .477
3. Jackson • CHW .436
4. Collins • CHW .402
5. Strunk • PHA .394
6. Veach • DET .394
7. Schang • PHA .384
8. Crawford • DET .382
9. Baker • NYY .375
10. Roth • CLE .373

Rbat+

Rbat+
Batting runs as computed for WAR, but indexed to the environment the player played in, where 100 is league average.

1. Speaker • CLE 202
2. Cobb • DET 192
3. Jackson • CHW 176
4. Strunk • PHA 161
5. Collins • CHW 154
6. Schang • PHA 149
7. Veach • DET 146
8. Sisler • SLB 142
9. Shotton • SLB 140
10. Morgan • WSH 139

A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order.

For rate stats, generally a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances/Team Game (batting), 1.0 IP/Team Game (pitching), 0.67 Gm and Chances/Team Game (fielding), 0.2 SB att/Team Game (catchers), 0.1 SB att/Team Game (baserunners only since 1951), and 0.1 decision/Team Game (W-L%) is needed for single-season leaderboards. For pitcher fielding the minimums are reduced by a third. For LF, CF, RF fielding stats, we only have reliable data since 1898, so all leaders are since 1898. Explanation of min. requirements