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 11.8
2. Coveleski • CLE 9.5
3. Perry • PHA 7.6
4. Ruth • BOS 7.0
5. Sisler • SLB 6.6
6. Cobb • DET 6.4
7. Speaker • CLE 5.8
8. Burns • PHA 5.7
9. Baker • NYY 4.8
10. Hooper • BOS 4.8

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. Sisler • SLB 6.8
2. Cobb • DET 6.4
3. Speaker • CLE 5.8
4. Burns • PHA 5.7
5. Baker • NYY 4.8
6. Hooper • BOS 4.8
7. Ruth • BOS 4.7
8. Gardner • PHA 3.9
9. Walker • PHA 3.3
10. Veach • DET 3.3

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 6.6
2. Sisler • SLB 5.4
3. Speaker • CLE 5.1
4. Burns • PHA 5.1
5. Ruth • BOS 4.6
6. Chapman • CLE 4.6
7. Baker • NYY 4.4
8. Hooper • BOS 4.1
9. Gardner • PHA 3.4
10. Walker • PHA 3.4

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. Peckinpaugh • NYY 3.0
2. Scott • BOS 3.0
3. Perkins • PHA 1.6
4. O'Neill • CLE 1.6
5. Hannah • NYY 1.4
6. Agnew • BOS 1.3
7. Gardner • PHA 1.1
Gedeon • SLB 1.1
9. Sisler • SLB 1.0
10. Ainsmith • WSH 0.9

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 .382
2. Burns • PHA .352
3. Sisler • SLB .341
4. Speaker • CLE .318
5. Baker • NYY .306
6. Pipp • NYY .304
7. Weaver • CHW .300
8. Ruth • BOS .300
9. Murphy • CHW .297
10. Wood • CLE .296

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 .440
2. Ruth • BOS .411
3. Collins • CHW .407
4. Schulte • WSH .406
5. Speaker • CLE .403
6. Sisler • SLB .400
7. Hooper • BOS .391
8. Burns • PHA .390
Chapman • CLE .390
10. Hendryx • SLB .388

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. Ruth • BOS .555
2. Cobb • DET .515
3. Burns • PHA .467
4. Sisler • SLB .440
5. Speaker • CLE .435
6. Walker • PHA .423
7. Pipp • NYY .415
8. Roth • CLE .411
9. Baker • NYY .409
10. Heilmann • DET .406

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. Ruth • BOS .966
2. Cobb • DET .955
3. Burns • PHA .857
4. Sisler • SLB .841
5. Speaker • CLE .839
6. Hooper • BOS .796
7. Roth • CLE .794
8. Walker • PHA .782
9. Schulte • WSH .770
10. Baker • NYY .765

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Burns • PHA 130
Judge • WSH 130
3. Foster • WSH 129
4. Chapman • CLE 128
Bush • DET 128
Milan • WSH 128
7. Speaker • CLE 127
Veach • DET 127
Gardner • PHA 127
10. Hooper • BOS 126
Scott • BOS 126
Baker • NYY 126
Pratt • NYY 126
Shotton • WSH 126

At Bats

At Bats

1. Foster • WSH 519
2. Burns • PHA 505
Shotton • WSH 505
4. Baker • NYY 504
5. Milan • WSH 503
6. Judge • WSH 502
7. Bush • DET 500
8. Veach • DET 499
9. Tobin • SLB 480
10. Pratt • NYY 477

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. Bush • DET 594
2. Judge • WSH 583
3. Shotton • WSH 579
4. Foster • WSH 576
5. Chapman • CLE 572
6. Hooper • BOS 569
7. Baker • NYY 558
8. Veach • DET 557
9. Tobin • SLB 554
10. Speaker • CLE 553

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Chapman • CLE 84
2. Hooper • BOS 81
Cobb • DET 81
4. Bush • DET 74
5. Speaker • CLE 73
6. Foster • WSH 70
7. Sisler • SLB 69
8. Shotton • WSH 68
9. Baker • NYY 65
Pratt • NYY 65

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Burns • PHA 178
2. Cobb • DET 161
3. Baker • NYY 154
Sisler • SLB 154
5. Speaker • CLE 150
6. Foster • WSH 147
7. Milan • WSH 146
8. Veach • DET 139
9. Hooper • BOS 137
10. Tobin • SLB 133

Total Bases

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

1. Burns • PHA 236
2. Cobb • DET 217
3. Baker • NYY 206
4. Speaker • CLE 205
5. Sisler • SLB 199
6. Veach • DET 195
7. Hooper • BOS 192
8. Ruth • BOS 176
9. Walker • PHA 175
10. Milan • WSH 174

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Speaker • CLE 33
2. Hooper • BOS 26
Ruth • BOS 26
4. Baker • NYY 24
5. Demmitt • SLB 23
Judge • WSH 23
7. Wood • CLE 22
Burns • PHA 22
Gardner • PHA 22
10. Roth • CLE 21
Veach • DET 21
Sisler • SLB 21

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Cobb • DET 14
2. Hooper • BOS 13
Veach • DET 13
4. Roth • CLE 12
5. Ruth • BOS 11
Collins • CHW 11
Speaker • CLE 11
8. Strunk • BOS 9
Pipp • NYY 9
Burns • PHA 9
Sisler • SLB 9
Ainsmith • WSH 9

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Ruth • BOS 11
Walker • PHA 11
3. Burns • PHA 6
Baker • NYY 6
5. Heilmann • DET 5
Wood • CLE 5
7. Bodie • NYY 3
Dugan • PHA 3
Veach • DET 3
Cobb • DET 3

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Veach • DET 84
2. Burns • PHA 70
3. Wood • CLE 66
4. Cobb • DET 62
Baker • NYY 62
6. Ruth • BOS 61
Speaker • CLE 61
Demmitt • SLB 61
9. Roth • CLE 59
10. McInnis • BOS 56
Collins • CHW 56
Milan • WSH 56
Shanks • WSH 56

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Chapman • CLE 84
2. Bush • DET 79
3. Hooper • BOS 75
4. Collins • CHW 73
5. Shotton • WSH 67
6. Speaker • CLE 64
7. Leibold • CHW 63
8. Ruth • BOS 58
9. Young • DET 54
Jamieson • PHA 54

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Ruth • BOS 58
2. Dugan • PHA 55
Kopp • PHA 55
4. Shannon • PHA 52
5. Chapman • CLE 46
6. Walker • PHA 44
Ainsmith • WSH 44
8. Roth • CLE 41
Peckinpaugh • NYY 41
10. Wood • CLE 38

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Sisler • SLB 45
2. Roth • CLE 36
3. Chapman • CLE 35
4. Cobb • DET 34
5. Speaker • CLE 27
6. Milan • WSH 26
7. Shotton • WSH 25
8. Hooper • BOS 24
9. Shanks • WSH 23
10. Collins • CHW 22
Kopp • PHA 22

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Burns • PHA 141
2. Foster • WSH 131
3. Cobb • DET 125
4. Milan • WSH 123
5. Sisler • SLB 122
6. Baker • NYY 119
7. Lavan • WSH 110
8. Weaver • CHW 109
Tobin • SLB 109
Shotton • WSH 109

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 194
2. Ruth • BOS 192
3. Burns • PHA 158
4. Sisler • SLB 158
5. Speaker • CLE 143
6. Hooper • BOS 141
7. Walker • PHA 136
8. Heilmann • DET 135
9. Schulte • WSH 134
10. Hendryx • SLB 132

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 95
2. Burns • PHA 90
3. Speaker • CLE 82
4. Sisler • SLB 78
5. Hooper • BOS 74
6. Baker • NYY 73
7. Ruth • BOS 72
8. Veach • DET 64
9. Walker • PHA 63
10. Chapman • CLE 60
Wood • CLE 60

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 46
2. Ruth • BOS 37
3. Burns • PHA 33
4. Sisler • SLB 31
5. Speaker • CLE 28
6. Hooper • BOS 26
7. Walker • PHA 17
8. Baker • NYY 16
9. Roth • CLE 16
10. Schulte • WSH 15

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 5.1
2. Ruth • BOS 4.1
3. Burns • PHA 3.6
4. Sisler • SLB 3.5
5. Speaker • CLE 3.1
6. Hooper • BOS 3.0
7. Walker • PHA 2.0
8. Baker • NYY 1.8
9. Roth • CLE 1.8
10. Schulte • WSH 1.7

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Ruth • BOS 48
2. Speaker • CLE 44
3. Hooper • BOS 40
4. Veach • DET 37
Burns • PHA 37
6. Cobb • DET 36
7. Baker • NYY 35
8. Roth • CLE 34
9. Sisler • SLB 32
10. Wood • CLE 31
Walker • PHA 31
Judge • WSH 31

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 217
2. Hooper • BOS 216
3. Chapman • CLE 209
Burns • PHA 209
5. Cobb • DET 204
6. Shotton • WSH 200
7. Sisler • SLB 199
8. Bush • DET 197
9. Baker • NYY 194
10. Foster • WSH 191

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 .864
2. Ruth • BOS .841
3. Burns • PHA .794
4. Sisler • SLB .777
5. Speaker • CLE .767
6. Hooper • BOS .710
7. Walker • PHA .708
8. Roth • CLE .697
9. Baker • NYY .695
10. Pipp • NYY .681

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Roth • CLE 8
Gedeon • SLB 8
Burns • PHA 8
4. O'Neill • CLE 7
5. Chapman • CLE 6
Schulte • WSH 6
Morgan • WSH 6
8. Milan • WSH 5
Nunamaker • SLB 5
Tobin • SLB 5
Sisler • SLB 5

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Shean • BOS 36
2. Chapman • CLE 35
3. McInnis • BOS 32
4. Judge • WSH 28
5. Scott • BOS 26
6. Peckinpaugh • NYY 25
7. Pratt • NYY 23
Gedeon • SLB 23
Maisel • SLB 23
10. Strunk • BOS 22
Collins • CHW 22

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. Walker • PHA 9.3
2. Ruth • BOS 7.8
3. Heilmann • DET 7.2
4. Baker • NYY 6.9
Burns • PHA 6.9
6. Wood • CLE 6.2
7. Cobb • DET 5.5
8. Veach • DET 5.3
9. Bodie • NYY 4.0
10. Sisler • SLB 3.8

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. Speaker • CLE 52.3
2. Vitt • DET 44.5
3. McInnis • BOS 42.3
4. Baker • NYY 38.8
5. Milan • WSH 35.9
6. Strunk • BOS 31.8
7. Heilmann • DET 28.6
8. Scott • BOS 27.7
9. Sisler • SLB 26.6
10. Foster • WSH 26.0

AB per HR

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

1. Ruth • BOS 28.8
2. Walker • PHA 37.6
3. Heilmann • DET 57.2
4. Baker • NYY 84.0
5. Burns • PHA 84.2
6. Wood • CLE 84.4
7. Bodie • NYY 108.0
8. Hannah • NYY 125.0
9. Dugan • PHA 137.0
10. Cobb • DET 140.3

Outs Made

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

1. Judge • WSH 399
2. Bush • DET 396
3. Foster • WSH 384
4. Veach • DET 377
5. Shotton • WSH 376
6. Scott • BOS 371
7. Gedeon • SLB 370
8. Pratt • NYY 369
9. Peckinpaugh • NYY 368
10. Tobin • SLB 364
Milan • WSH 364

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 47.28
2. Ruth • BOS 43.12
3. Speaker • CLE 38.14
4. Hooper • BOS 36.44
5. Baker • NYY 34.66
6. Veach • DET 33.84
7. Sisler • SLB 31.65
8. Burns • PHA 29.62
9. Chapman • CLE 19.17
10. Walker • PHA 18.10

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. Hooper • BOS 5.1
2. Cobb • DET 5.0
3. Ruth • BOS 4.8
4. Sisler • SLB 4.1
5. Burns • PHA 3.8
6. Walker • PHA 3.1
7. Speaker • CLE 3.0
8. Collins • CHW 2.6
9. Baker • NYY 2.5
10. Heilmann • DET 2.3

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 4.1
2. Ruth • BOS 3.6
3. Hooper • BOS 3.6
4. Sisler • SLB 3.4
5. Burns • PHA 3.4
6. Walker • PHA 2.5
7. Baker • NYY 2.2
8. Speaker • CLE 2.2
9. Chapman • CLE 2.0
10. Collins • CHW 1.9

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. Ruth • BOS 19.7
2. Hooper • BOS 17.1
3. Bodie • NYY 5.6
4. Baker • NYY 4.9
5. Roth • CLE 4.9
6. Speaker • CLE 4.7
7. Mayer • BOS 3.9
8. Wood • CLE 3.6
9. Pipp • NYY 3.2
10. Collins • CHW 3.1

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 5.4
2. Ruth • BOS 4.8
3. Hooper • BOS 4.1
4. Speaker • CLE 4.1
5. Veach • DET 3.9
6. Baker • NYY 3.8
7. Sisler • SLB 3.6
8. Burns • PHA 3.3
9. Chapman • CLE 2.1
10. Walker • PHA 2.0

rOBA

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

1. Cobb • DET .467
2. Ruth • BOS .464
3. Sisler • SLB .428
4. Speaker • CLE .423
5. Burns • PHA .413
6. Roth • CLE .406
7. Hooper • BOS .391
8. Heilmann • DET .389
9. Schulte • WSH .386
10. Walker • PHA .381

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 205
2. Ruth • BOS 198
3. Burns • PHA 168
4. Sisler • SLB 168
5. Speaker • CLE 156
6. Hooper • BOS 152
7. Heilmann • DET 146
8. Schulte • WSH 146
9. Walker • PHA 144
10. Hendryx • SLB 142

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