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. Ruth • NYY 11.8
2. Sisler • SLB 9.8
3. Bagby • CLE 9.5
4. Coveleski • CLE 8.9
5. Speaker • CLE 8.7
6. Shawkey • NYY 8.1
7. Collins • CHW 8.0
8. Jackson • CHW 7.6
9. Shocker • SLB 6.8
10. Mays • NYY 6.3

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. Ruth • NYY 11.9
2. Sisler • SLB 9.8
3. Speaker • CLE 8.7
4. Collins • CHW 8.0
5. Jackson • CHW 7.6
6. Jacobson • SLB 6.0
7. Felsch • CHW 5.6
8. Hooper • BOS 5.3
9. Pratt • NYY 4.7
10. Rice • WSH 4.7

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. Ruth • NYY 11.8
2. Sisler • SLB 9.2
3. Speaker • CLE 8.4
4. Collins • CHW 7.5
5. Jackson • CHW 7.4
6. Jacobson • SLB 5.2
7. Felsch • CHW 5.1
8. O'Neill • CLE 4.6
9. Hooper • BOS 4.5
10. Judge • WSH 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. Perkins • PHA 2.8
2. Scott • BOS 1.9
3. Peckinpaugh • NYY 1.8
4. Schalk • CHW 1.8
5. Gardner • CLE 1.8
6. Ward • NYY 1.6
7. Pratt • NYY 1.5
8. Chapman • CLE 1.4
Gharrity • WSH 1.4
10. Severeid • SLB 1.3

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. Sisler • SLB .407
2. Speaker • CLE .388
3. Jackson • CHW .382
4. Ruth • NYY .376
5. Collins • CHW .372
6. Jacobson • SLB .355
7. Tobin • SLB .341
8. Rice • WSH .338
9. Felsch • CHW .338
10. Cobb • DET .334

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. Ruth • NYY .532
2. Speaker • CLE .483
3. Sisler • SLB .449
4. Jackson • CHW .444
5. Collins • CHW .438
6. Cobb • DET .416
7. Judge • WSH .416
8. Schang • BOS .413
9. Hooper • BOS .411
10. O'Neill • CLE .408

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 • NYY .847
2. Sisler • SLB .632
3. Jackson • CHW .589
4. Speaker • CLE .562
5. Felsch • CHW .540
6. Smith • CLE .520
7. Meusel • NYY .517
8. Jacobson • SLB .501
9. Collins • CHW .493
10. Williams • SLB .480

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 • NYY 1.379
2. Sisler • SLB 1.082
3. Speaker • CLE 1.045
4. Jackson • CHW 1.033
5. Collins • CHW .932
6. Felsch • CHW .923
7. Smith • CLE .910
8. Jacobson • SLB .903
9. Hooper • BOS .881
10. Judge • WSH .878

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Scott • BOS 154
Gardner • CLE 154
Veach • DET 154
Pratt • NYY 154
Gerber • SLB 154
Jacobson • SLB 154
Sisler • SLB 154
8. Collins • CHW 153
Wambsganss • CLE 153
Pipp • NYY 153
Gedeon • SLB 153
Rice • WSH 153

At Bats

At Bats

1. Sisler • SLB 631
2. Weaver • CHW 629
3. Rice • WSH 624
4. Veach • DET 612
5. Pipp • NYY 610
6. Jacobson • SLB 609
7. Gedeon • SLB 606
8. Collins • CHW 602
9. Gardner • CLE 597
10. Young • DET 594

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. Gedeon • SLB 713
2. Collins • CHW 706
3. Young • DET 705
4. Weaver • CHW 692
Sisler • SLB 692
6. Pipp • NYY 687
Rice • WSH 687
8. Gardner • CLE 683
9. Speaker • CLE 674
10. Jacobson • SLB 673

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Ruth • NYY 158
2. Speaker • CLE 137
Sisler • SLB 137
4. Collins • CHW 117
5. Peckinpaugh • NYY 109
Pipp • NYY 109
7. Jackson • CHW 105
8. Judge • WSH 103
9. Weaver • CHW 102
10. Chapman • CLE 97
Jacobson • SLB 97

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Sisler • SLB 257
2. Collins • CHW 224
3. Jackson • CHW 218
4. Jacobson • SLB 216
5. Speaker • CLE 214
6. Rice • WSH 211
7. Weaver • CHW 208
8. Tobin • SLB 202
9. Felsch • CHW 188
Veach • DET 188

Total Bases

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

1. Sisler • SLB 399
2. Ruth • NYY 388
3. Jackson • CHW 336
4. Speaker • CLE 310
5. Jacobson • SLB 305
6. Felsch • CHW 300
7. Collins • CHW 297
8. Veach • DET 290
9. Tobin • SLB 268
10. Rice • WSH 267

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Speaker • CLE 50
2. Sisler • SLB 49
3. Jackson • CHW 42
4. Felsch • CHW 40
Meusel • NYY 40
Dugan • PHA 40
7. O'Neill • CLE 39
Veach • DET 39
9. Collins • CHW 38
10. Smith • CLE 37
Pratt • NYY 37

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Jackson • CHW 20
2. Sisler • SLB 18
3. Hooper • BOS 17
4. Felsch • CHW 15
Veach • DET 15
Judge • WSH 15
7. Pipp • NYY 14
Jacobson • SLB 14
9. Collins • CHW 13
Williams • SLB 13

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Ruth • NYY 54
2. Sisler • SLB 19
3. Walker • PHA 17
4. Felsch • CHW 14
5. Jackson • CHW 12
Smith • CLE 12
7. Pipp • NYY 11
Ward • NYY 11
Meusel • NYY 11
Veach • DET 11

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Ruth • NYY 135
2. Jacobson • SLB 122
Sisler • SLB 122
4. Jackson • CHW 121
5. Gardner • CLE 118
6. Felsch • CHW 115
7. Veach • DET 113
8. Pratt • NYY 108
9. Speaker • CLE 107
10. Smith • CLE 103

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Ruth • NYY 150
2. Speaker • CLE 97
3. Hooper • BOS 88
4. Young • DET 85
5. Roth • WSH 75
6. Bush • DET 73
7. Peckinpaugh • NYY 72
8. Collins • CHW 69
O'Neill • CLE 69
10. Schalk • CHW 68

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Ward • NYY 84
2. Ruth • NYY 80
3. Dykes • PHA 73
4. Meusel • NYY 72
5. Walker • PHA 59
6. Roth • WSH 57
7. Pipp • NYY 54
8. Menosky • BOS 52
Gharrity • WSH 52
10. Dugan • PHA 51

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Rice • WSH 63
2. Sisler • SLB 42
3. Roth • WSH 24
4. Menosky • BOS 23
5. Tobin • SLB 21
6. Collins • CHW 20
7. Weaver • CHW 19
8. Williams • SLB 18
9. Hooper • BOS 16
Harris • WSH 16

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Sisler • SLB 171
2. Collins • CHW 170
Rice • WSH 170
4. Weaver • CHW 164
5. Jacobson • SLB 159
6. Tobin • SLB 154
7. Young • DET 146
8. Speaker • CLE 145
9. Jackson • CHW 144
10. McInnis • BOS 140
Gardner • CLE 140

Adjusted OPS+

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

1. Ruth • NYY 255
2. Sisler • SLB 181
3. Jackson • CHW 172
4. Speaker • CLE 172
5. Collins • CHW 147
6. Felsch • CHW 143
7. Hooper • BOS 137
8. Smith • CLE 136
9. Judge • WSH 135
10. Jacobson • SLB 135

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. Ruth • NYY 200
2. Sisler • SLB 178
3. Speaker • CLE 145
4. Jackson • CHW 143
5. Collins • CHW 131
6. Jacobson • SLB 121
7. Felsch • CHW 109
8. Tobin • SLB 101
9. Rice • WSH 100
10. Hooper • BOS 99
Veach • DET 99

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. Ruth • NYY 114
2. Sisler • SLB 72
3. Speaker • CLE 65
4. Jackson • CHW 59
5. Collins • CHW 43
6. Hooper • BOS 31
7. Felsch • CHW 31
8. Jacobson • SLB 30
9. Judge • WSH 27
10. Smith • CLE 24

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. Ruth • NYY 10.8
2. Sisler • SLB 6.9
3. Speaker • CLE 6.3
4. Jackson • CHW 5.7
5. Collins • CHW 4.2
6. Hooper • BOS 3.1
Felsch • CHW 3.1
8. Jacobson • SLB 2.9
9. Judge • WSH 2.6
10. Smith • CLE 2.3

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Ruth • NYY 99
2. Sisler • SLB 86
3. Jackson • CHW 74
4. Felsch • CHW 69
Speaker • CLE 69
6. Veach • DET 65
7. Smith • CLE 59
8. Meusel • NYY 58
9. Jacobson • SLB 57
Williams • SLB 57

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. Ruth • NYY 325
2. Speaker • CLE 316
3. Sisler • SLB 305
4. Collins • CHW 295
5. Jackson • CHW 281
6. Jacobson • SLB 264
7. Young • DET 260
8. Hooper • BOS 257
9. Rice • WSH 254
10. Tobin • SLB 243

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. Ruth • NYY .921
2. Sisler • SLB .850
3. Speaker • CLE .819
4. Jackson • CHW .809
5. Collins • CHW .751
6. Jacobson • SLB .726
7. Smith • CLE .707
8. Felsch • CHW .704
9. Cobb • DET .685
10. Meusel • NYY .681

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Harris • WSH 21
2. Griffin • PHA 11
3. Menosky • BOS 9
Walters • BOS 9
Dykes • PHA 9
6. Schang • BOS 7
Jackson • CHW 7
Veach • DET 7
Billings • SLB 7
10. Weaver • CHW 6
Pipp • NYY 6
Roth • WSH 6

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Bush • DET 48
Gedeon • SLB 48
3. McInnis • BOS 45
4. Chapman • CLE 41
5. Wambsganss • CLE 40
6. Collins • CHW 33
7. Gardner • CLE 32
8. Weaver • CHW 27
Pratt • NYY 27
Dykes • PHA 27

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Rice • WSH 30
2. Gardner • CLE 20
3. Menosky • BOS 19
4. Hooper • BOS 18
Wambsganss • CLE 18
6. Weaver • CHW 17
Sisler • SLB 17
Harris • WSH 17
9. Leibold • CHW 15
10. Bodie • NYY 14
Ruth • NYY 14

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. Sisler • SLB 26.2
2. Ruth • NYY 22.2
3. Roth • WSH 13.1
4. Williams • SLB 12.9
5. Veach • DET 11.0
6. Walker • PHA 10.9
7. Jackson • CHW 10.3
8. Felsch • CHW 10.2
9. Jacobson • SLB 9.9
10. Hooper • BOS 9.7

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 42.5
2. Milan • WSH 42.2
3. Jackson • CHW 40.7
4. Severeid • SLB 38.4
5. Scott • BOS 37.9
6. Sisler • SLB 33.2
7. Collins • CHW 31.7
8. McInnis • BOS 29.4
9. Veach • DET 27.8
10. Weaver • CHW 27.3

AB per HR

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

1. Ruth • NYY 8.5
2. Sisler • SLB 33.2
3. Walker • PHA 34.4
4. Smith • CLE 38.0
5. Felsch • CHW 39.7
6. Meusel • NYY 41.8
7. Ward • NYY 45.1
8. Jackson • CHW 47.5
9. Roth • WSH 52.0
10. Williams • SLB 52.1

Outs Made

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

1. Wambsganss • CLE 485
2. Gedeon • SLB 480
3. Pipp • NYY 472
4. Weaver • CHW 465
5. Gardner • CLE 464
6. Rice • WSH 462
7. Young • DET 456
8. Gerber • SLB 453
9. McInnis • BOS 449
Walker • PHA 449

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. Ruth • NYY 113.27
2. Speaker • CLE 83.36
3. Sisler • SLB 76.49
4. Jackson • CHW 65.52
5. Collins • CHW 53.17
6. Smith • CLE 47.45
7. Cobb • DET 37.01
8. Jacobson • SLB 31.60
9. Felsch • CHW 30.70
10. Rice • WSH 27.60

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. Ruth • NYY 8.2
2. Speaker • CLE 6.4
3. Jackson • CHW 5.4
4. Sisler • SLB 5.2
5. Collins • CHW 5.2
6. Hooper • BOS 4.8
7. Smith • CLE 4.2
8. Cobb • DET 4.1
9. Felsch • CHW 3.8
10. Roth • WSH 2.6

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. Ruth • NYY 11.0
2. Sisler • SLB 6.4
3. Speaker • CLE 6.2
4. Jackson • CHW 4.9
5. Collins • CHW 4.0
6. Smith • CLE 3.0
7. Hooper • BOS 2.8
8. Felsch • CHW 2.5
9. Cobb • DET 2.3
10. Roth • WSH 1.9

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. Ruth • NYY 26.5
2. Speaker • CLE 21.7
3. Smith • CLE 21.4
4. Jackson • CHW 19.1
5. Felsch • CHW 16.5
6. Collins • CHW 11.1
7. Sewell • CLE 10.9
8. Pipp • NYY 8.6
9. Pratt • NYY 8.4
10. Gardner • CLE 3.9

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. Ruth • NYY 10.5
2. Speaker • CLE 7.8
3. Sisler • SLB 7.3
4. Jackson • CHW 6.3
5. Collins • CHW 5.2
6. Smith • CLE 4.5
7. Cobb • DET 3.6
8. Jacobson • SLB 3.0
9. Felsch • CHW 3.0
10. Rice • WSH 2.7

rOBA

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

1. Ruth • NYY .587
2. Sisler • SLB .502
3. Speaker • CLE .486
4. Jackson • CHW .473
5. Collins • CHW .444
6. Jacobson • SLB .422
7. Felsch • CHW .421
8. Smith • CLE .421
9. Judge • WSH .411
10. Cobb • DET .410

Rbat+

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

1. Ruth • NYY 253
2. Sisler • SLB 193
3. Speaker • CLE 188
4. Jackson • CHW 184
5. Collins • CHW 161
6. Felsch • CHW 151
7. Hooper • BOS 147
8. Judge • WSH 146
9. Jacobson • SLB 144
10. Smith • CLE 144

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