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. Cicotte • CHW 12.1
2. Cobb • DET 11.0
3. Bagby • CLE 8.9
4. Ruth • BOS 8.6
5. Johnson • WSH 8.4
6. Coveleski • CLE 7.9
7. Speaker • CLE 7.9
8. Chapman • CLE 7.6
9. Veach • DET 6.6
10. Mays • BOS 6.5

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. Cobb • DET 11.0
2. Speaker • CLE 7.9
3. Chapman • CLE 7.6
4. Veach • DET 6.6
5. Sisler • SLB 6.0
6. Jackson • CHW 5.3
7. Collins • CHW 5.0
8. Felsch • CHW 4.8
9. Gardner • BOS 4.3
10. Baker • 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. Cobb • DET 10.3
2. Speaker • CLE 7.4
3. Chapman • CLE 6.7
4. Sisler • SLB 6.2
5. Veach • DET 6.1
6. Collins • CHW 5.7
7. Bush • DET 4.9
8. Jackson • CHW 4.3
9. Felsch • CHW 4.2
10. Bodie • PHA 4.1

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. Scott • BOS 2.4
2. Chapman • CLE 2.2
3. Schalk • CHW 2.2
4. O'Neill • CLE 1.8
5. Nunamaker • NYY 1.4
6. Peckinpaugh • NYY 1.3
7. Barry • BOS 1.2
8. Gardner • BOS 1.1
9. Walters • NYY 1.1
10. Baker • NYY 1.0

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. Cobb • DET .383
2. Sisler • SLB .353
3. Speaker • CLE .352
4. Veach • DET .319
5. Felsch • CHW .308
6. Harris • CLE .304
7. McInnis • PHA .303
8. Rice • WSH .302
9. Lewis • BOS .302
10. Chapman • CLE .302

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. Cobb • DET .444
2. Speaker • CLE .432
3. Harris • CLE .398
4. Veach • DET .393
5. Sisler • SLB .390
6. Collins • CHW .389
7. Jackson • CHW .375
8. Chapman • CLE .370
9. Bush • DET .370
10. Judge • WSH .369

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. Cobb • DET .570
2. Speaker • CLE .486
3. Veach • DET .457
4. Sisler • SLB .453
5. Jackson • CHW .429
6. Bodie • PHA .418
7. Judge • WSH .415
8. Schang • PHA .415
9. Chapman • CLE .409
10. Felsch • CHW .403

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. Cobb • DET 1.014
2. Speaker • CLE .918
3. Veach • DET .850
4. Sisler • SLB .843
5. Jackson • CHW .805
6. Judge • WSH .783
7. Harris • CLE .783
8. Chapman • CLE .779
9. Schang • PHA .776
10. Bodie • PHA .774

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Scott • BOS 157
2. Collins • CHW 156
Chapman • CLE 156
4. Pipp • NYY 155
Milan • WSH 155
Rice • WSH 155
7. Veach • DET 154
8. Felsch • CHW 152
Cobb • DET 152
10. Hooper • BOS 151

At Bats

At Bats

1. Cobb • DET 588
2. Pipp • NYY 587
3. Rice • WSH 586
4. Bush • DET 581
5. Milan • WSH 579
6. Felsch • CHW 575
7. Veach • DET 571
8. McInnis • PHA 567
9. Collins • CHW 564
10. Chapman • CLE 563

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. Chapman • CLE 693
2. Collins • CHW 689
3. Bush • DET 675
4. Cobb • DET 671
5. Pipp • NYY 669
6. Hooper • BOS 668
7. Veach • DET 666
8. Milan • WSH 662
9. Rice • WSH 657
10. Graney • CLE 648

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Bush • DET 112
2. Cobb • DET 107
3. Chapman • CLE 98
4. Collins • CHW 91
Jackson • CHW 91
6. Speaker • CLE 90
7. Hooper • BOS 89
8. Graney • CLE 87
9. Strunk • PHA 83
10. Pipp • NYY 82

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Cobb • DET 225
2. Sisler • SLB 190
3. Speaker • CLE 184
4. Veach • DET 182
5. Felsch • CHW 177
Rice • WSH 177
7. McInnis • PHA 172
8. Chapman • CLE 170
Milan • WSH 170
10. Lewis • BOS 167

Total Bases

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

1. Cobb • DET 335
2. Veach • DET 261
3. Speaker • CLE 254
4. Sisler • SLB 244
5. Bodie • PHA 233
6. Felsch • CHW 232
7. Jackson • CHW 231
8. Chapman • CLE 230
9. Pipp • NYY 223
10. Lewis • BOS 217

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Cobb • DET 44
2. Speaker • CLE 42
3. Veach • DET 31
4. Roth • CLE 30
Sisler • SLB 30
6. Lewis • BOS 29
Graney • CLE 29
Pipp • NYY 29
9. Chapman • CLE 28
Bodie • PHA 28

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Cobb • DET 24
2. Jackson • CHW 17
3. Judge • WSH 15
4. Chapman • CLE 13
5. Collins • CHW 12
Veach • DET 12
Pipp • NYY 12
8. Hooper • BOS 11
Speaker • CLE 11
Heilmann • DET 11
Bodie • PHA 11

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Pipp • NYY 9
2. Veach • DET 8
3. Bodie • PHA 7
4. Cobb • DET 6
Baker • NYY 6
Felsch • CHW 6
7. Heilmann • DET 5
Hendryx • NYY 5
Jackson • CHW 5
10. Jacobson • SLB 4

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Veach • DET 110
2. Cobb • DET 106
3. Felsch • CHW 99
4. Heilmann • DET 85
5. Jackson • CHW 82
6. Bodie • PHA 74
7. Roth • CLE 72
8. Baker • NYY 71
9. Pipp • NYY 70
10. Rice • WSH 69

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Graney • CLE 94
2. Collins • CHW 89
3. Hooper • BOS 80
Bush • DET 80
5. Leibold • CHW 74
6. Strunk • PHA 68
7. Speaker • CLE 67
8. Witt • PHA 65
9. Peckinpaugh • NYY 64
10. Hendryx • NYY 62
Shotton • SLB 62

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Roth • CLE 73
2. Jacobson • SLB 67
3. Pipp • NYY 66
4. Risberg • CHW 65
Chapman • CLE 65
6. O'Neill • CLE 55
Menosky • WSH 55
8. Lewis • BOS 54
Heilmann • DET 54
10. Grover • PHA 53

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Cobb • DET 55
2. Collins • CHW 53
3. Chapman • CLE 52
4. Roth • CLE 51
5. Sisler • SLB 37
6. Rice • WSH 35
7. Bush • DET 34
8. Speaker • CLE 30
9. Maisel • NYY 29
10. Leibold • CHW 27

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Cobb • DET 151
Milan • WSH 151
3. McInnis • PHA 149
Sisler • SLB 149
5. Rice • WSH 145
6. Felsch • CHW 144
7. Bush • DET 142
8. Gandil • CHW 135
9. Collins • CHW 133
10. Veach • DET 131

Adjusted OPS+

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

1. Cobb • DET 209
2. Speaker • CLE 172
3. Sisler • SLB 161
4. Veach • DET 159
5. Jackson • CHW 143
6. Judge • WSH 140
7. Schang • PHA 140
8. Bodie • PHA 139
9. Harris • CLE 132
10. Chapman • CLE 131

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 148
2. Speaker • CLE 108
3. Veach • DET 100
4. Sisler • SLB 94
5. Jackson • CHW 85
Chapman • CLE 85
7. Bodie • PHA 82
8. Felsch • CHW 80
9. Collins • CHW 79
10. Rice • WSH 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. Cobb • DET 75
2. Speaker • CLE 49
3. Veach • DET 41
4. Sisler • SLB 37
5. Jackson • CHW 27
6. Bodie • PHA 25
7. Collins • CHW 23
8. Chapman • CLE 21
9. Judge • WSH 18
10. Harris • CLE 18

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. Cobb • DET 8.4
2. Speaker • CLE 5.6
3. Veach • DET 4.6
4. Sisler • SLB 4.2
5. Jackson • CHW 3.1
6. Bodie • PHA 2.8
7. Collins • CHW 2.6
8. Chapman • CLE 2.4
9. Judge • WSH 2.1
10. Harris • CLE 2.0

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Cobb • DET 74
2. Speaker • CLE 55
3. Veach • DET 51
4. Pipp • NYY 50
5. Bodie • PHA 46
6. Chapman • CLE 43
7. Jackson • CHW 42
8. Sisler • SLB 41
9. Roth • CLE 40
10. Lewis • BOS 39
Graney • CLE 39

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. Cobb • DET 290
2. Speaker • CLE 258
3. Collins • CHW 255
4. Veach • DET 252
5. Bush • DET 245
6. Milan • WSH 234
7. Chapman • CLE 231
8. Rice • WSH 230
9. Hooper • BOS 229
10. Jackson • CHW 226

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 .889
2. Speaker • CLE .836
3. Sisler • SLB .790
4. Veach • DET .769
5. Jackson • CHW .730
6. Harris • CLE .723
7. Judge • WSH .719
8. Bodie • PHA .696
9. Felsch • CHW .687
10. Schang • PHA .680

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Spencer • DET 9
Veach • DET 9
Miller • NYY 9
Schang • PHA 9
5. Jackson • CHW 7
Schalk • CHW 7
Speaker • CLE 7
Wambsganss • CLE 7
Sloan • SLB 7
10. Hooper • BOS 6
Felsch • CHW 6
Burns • DET 6
Pipp • NYY 6
Bates • PHA 6
Menosky • WSH 6
Milan • WSH 6
Shanks • WSH 6

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Chapman • CLE 67
2. Barry • BOS 54
3. Grover • PHA 43
4. Scott • BOS 41
5. Gardner • BOS 40
6. Weaver • CHW 35
7. Lewis • BOS 33
Collins • CHW 33
9. Evans • CLE 32
10. Vitt • DET 31
Young • DET 31

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. Veach • DET 11.6
2. Cobb • DET 10.8
3. Pipp • NYY 9.9
4. Felsch • CHW 9.8
5. Bodie • PHA 9.1
6. Baker • NYY 9.0
7. Jackson • CHW 7.2
8. Heilmann • DET 6.9
9. Jacobson • SLB 5.7
10. Hendryx • NYY 5.5

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. Marsans • 2TM 38.3
2. Speaker • CLE 37.4
3. Collins • CHW 35.3
4. Vitt • DET 34.1
5. McInnis • PHA 29.8
6. Sisler • SLB 28.4
7. Severeid • SLB 25.1
8. Foster • WSH 24.1
9. Maisel • NYY 22.4
10. Milan • WSH 22.3

AB per HR

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

1. Pipp • NYY 65.2
2. Veach • DET 71.4
3. Hendryx • NYY 78.6
4. Bodie • PHA 79.6
5. Baker • NYY 92.2
6. Smith • 2TM 92.7
7. Felsch • CHW 95.8
8. Cobb • DET 98.0
9. Schang • PHA 105.3
10. Jackson • CHW 107.6

Outs Made

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

1. Chapman • CLE 460
2. Pipp • NYY 459
3. Scott • BOS 442
Foster • WSH 442
5. Hooper • BOS 438
6. Collins • CHW 434
7. Graney • CLE 428
Bush • DET 428
Milan • WSH 428
10. Rice • WSH 423

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. Cobb • DET 86.78
2. Speaker • CLE 49.33
3. Veach • DET 48.34
4. Collins • CHW 38.09
5. Jackson • CHW 37.45
6. Harris • CLE 36.09
7. Felsch • CHW 28.31
8. Rice • WSH 28.00
9. Bodie • PHA 26.32
10. Sisler • SLB 25.91

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>See <a href='https://www.baseball-reference.com/about/wpa.shtml'>Win Expectancy explainer</a> for details.

1. Cobb • DET 8.5
2. Collins • CHW 4.9
3. Speaker • CLE 4.5
4. Harris • CLE 4.4
5. Veach • DET 3.8
6. Jackson • CHW 3.8
7. Felsch • CHW 3.3
8. Sisler • SLB 3.2
9. Strunk • PHA 2.9
10. Judge • WSH 2.9

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 7.1
2. Speaker • CLE 4.0
3. Veach • DET 3.6
4. Sisler • SLB 3.0
5. Collins • CHW 3.0
6. Jackson • CHW 2.8
7. Harris • CLE 2.5
8. Chapman • CLE 2.3
9. Roth • CLE 2.2
10. Hendryx • NYY 2.0

Championship WPA (cWPA)

<strong>Championship Win Probability Added for Offensive Player</strong><br>Given average teams, this is the change in probability of winning the World Series, displayed in percentage points.<br>See <a href='https://www.baseball-reference.com/about/wpa.shtml'>Win Expectancy explainer</a> for details.

1. Collins • CHW 14.1
2. Jackson • CHW 12.1
3. Felsch • CHW 9.5
4. Murphy • CHW 4.5
5. Speaker • CLE 4.5
6. Hooper • BOS 3.9
7. Hoblitzell • BOS 3.5
8. Pipp • NYY 3.3
9. Cobb • DET 3.2
10. Peckinpaugh • NYY 2.9

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. Cobb • DET 9.6
2. Veach • DET 5.5
3. Speaker • CLE 5.4
4. Collins • CHW 4.3
5. Jackson • CHW 4.2
6. Harris • CLE 3.9
7. Rice • WSH 3.2
8. Felsch • CHW 3.2
9. Bodie • PHA 3.0
10. Sisler • SLB 3.0

rOBA

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

1. Cobb • DET .490
2. Speaker • CLE .452
3. Sisler • SLB .420
4. Veach • DET .414
5. Chapman • CLE .388
6. Harris • CLE .388
7. Collins • CHW .385
8. Jackson • CHW .385
9. Judge • WSH .385
10. Schang • PHA .380

Rbat+

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

1. Cobb • DET 219
2. Speaker • CLE 185
3. Sisler • SLB 171
4. Veach • DET 170
5. Jackson • CHW 153
6. Schang • PHA 149
7. Bodie • PHA 148
8. Judge • WSH 146
9. Harris • CLE 143
10. Collins • CHW 141

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