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 12.6
2. Faber • CHW 11.1
3. Shocker • SLB 8.6
4. Mays • NYY 7.5
5. Jones • BOS 7.2
6. Heilmann • DET 6.9
7. Cobb • DET 6.7
8. Speaker • CLE 6.6
9. Coveleski • CLE 6.5
10. Mogridge • WSH 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 12.8
2. Heilmann • DET 6.9
3. Cobb • DET 6.7
4. Speaker • CLE 6.6
5. Sisler • SLB 5.7
6. Veach • DET 5.5
7. Williams • SLB 5.5
8. Sewell • CLE 5.0
9. Gardner • CLE 4.6
10. Collins • CHW 4.5

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 12.2
2. Heilmann • DET 7.4
3. Cobb • DET 6.7
4. Speaker • CLE 5.6
5. Sewell • CLE 5.4
6. Williams • SLB 5.3
7. Sisler • SLB 5.3
8. Veach • DET 4.7
9. Schang • NYY 4.3
10. Collins • CHW 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 2.6
2. Ward • NYY 1.6
3. Perkins • PHA 1.5
4. Gharrity • WSH 1.5
5. Schalk • CHW 1.2
6. Severeid • SLB 1.2
7. Johnson • CHW 1.1
8. Baker • NYY 1.1
9. McNally • NYY 1.0
10. Gardner • CLE 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. Heilmann • DET .394
2. Cobb • DET .389
3. Ruth • NYY .378
4. Sisler • SLB .371
5. Speaker • CLE .362
6. Jacobson • SLB .352
7. Tobin • SLB .352
8. Williams • SLB .347
9. Veach • DET .338
10. Collins • CHW .337

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 .512
2. Cobb • DET .452
3. Heilmann • DET .444
4. Speaker • CLE .439
5. Williams • SLB .429
6. Schang • NYY .428
7. O'Neill • CLE .424
8. Blue • DET .416
9. Collins • CHW .412
10. Sewell • CLE .412

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 .846
2. Heilmann • DET .606
3. Cobb • DET .596
4. Williams • SLB .561
5. Sisler • SLB .560
6. Meusel • NYY .559
7. Speaker • CLE .538
8. Veach • DET .529
9. Smith • CLE .508
10. Walker • PHA .504

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 1.359
2. Heilmann • DET 1.051
3. Cobb • DET 1.048
4. Williams • SLB .990
5. Speaker • CLE .977
6. Sisler • SLB .971
7. Veach • DET .917
8. Meusel • NYY .915
9. Walker • PHA .892
10. Jacobson • SLB .885

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Dykes • PHA 155
2. Scott • BOS 154
Sheely • CHW 154
Sewell • CLE 154
Witt • PHA 154
Harris • WSH 154
Shanks • WSH 154
8. Gardner • CLE 153
Blue • DET 153
Pipp • NYY 153
Ward • NYY 153
Judge • WSH 153

At Bats

At Bats

1. Tobin • SLB 671
2. Witt • PHA 629
3. Judge • WSH 622
4. Johnson • CHW 613
Dykes • PHA 613
6. Veach • DET 612
7. Mulligan • CHW 609
8. Heilmann • DET 602
9. Jacobson • SLB 599
10. Meusel • NYY 598

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. Witt • PHA 731
Tobin • SLB 731
3. Judge • WSH 715
4. Blue • DET 711
5. Dykes • PHA 701
6. Peckinpaugh • NYY 696
7. Ruth • NYY 693
8. Veach • DET 692
9. Harris • WSH 688
10. Gardner • CLE 686

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Ruth • NYY 177
2. Tobin • SLB 132
3. Peckinpaugh • NYY 128
4. Sisler • SLB 125
5. Cobb • DET 124
6. Williams • SLB 115
7. Heilmann • DET 114
8. Veach • DET 110
9. Speaker • CLE 107
10. Meusel • NYY 104

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Heilmann • DET 237
2. Tobin • SLB 236
3. Sisler • SLB 216
4. Jacobson • SLB 211
5. Veach • DET 207
6. Ruth • NYY 204
7. Witt • PHA 198
8. Cobb • DET 197
9. Meusel • NYY 190
Williams • SLB 190

Total Bases

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

1. Ruth • NYY 457
2. Heilmann • DET 365
3. Meusel • NYY 334
4. Tobin • SLB 327
5. Sisler • SLB 326
6. Veach • DET 324
7. Williams • SLB 307
8. Cobb • DET 302
9. Jacobson • SLB 292
10. Walker • PHA 280

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Speaker • CLE 52
2. Ruth • NYY 44
3. Heilmann • DET 43
Veach • DET 43
5. Meusel • NYY 40
6. Rice • WSH 39
7. Jacobson • SLB 38
Sisler • SLB 38
9. Cobb • DET 37
10. Pratt • BOS 36
Sewell • CLE 36

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Sisler • SLB 18
Tobin • SLB 18
Shanks • WSH 18
4. Cobb • DET 16
Meusel • NYY 16
Ruth • NYY 16
7. Gardner • CLE 14
Speaker • CLE 14
Heilmann • DET 14
Jacobson • SLB 14

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Ruth • NYY 59
2. Meusel • NYY 24
Williams • SLB 24
4. Walker • PHA 23
5. Heilmann • DET 19
6. Veach • DET 16
Smith • CLE 16
Dykes • PHA 16
9. Sisler • SLB 12
Cobb • DET 12
Perkins • PHA 12

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Ruth • NYY 168
2. Heilmann • DET 139
3. Meusel • NYY 138
4. Veach • DET 128
5. Gardner • CLE 120
6. Williams • SLB 117
7. Sisler • SLB 104
8. Pipp • NYY 103
9. Pratt • BOS 102
10. Cobb • DET 101
Walker • PHA 101

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Ruth • NYY 145
2. Blue • DET 103
3. Peckinpaugh • NYY 84
4. Sewell • CLE 80
5. Schang • NYY 78
6. Witt • PHA 77
7. Williams • SLB 74
8. Walker • PHA 73
9. Young • DET 69
10. Speaker • CLE 68
Judge • WSH 68

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Meusel • NYY 88
2. Ruth • NYY 81
3. Dykes • PHA 75
4. Falk • CHW 69
5. Ward • NYY 68
6. O'Rourke • WSH 56
7. Mulligan • CHW 53
8. Witt • PHA 52
9. Miller • WSH 50
10. Blue • DET 47

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Sisler • SLB 35
2. Harris • WSH 29
3. Rice • WSH 26
4. Johnson • CHW 22
Cobb • DET 22
6. Judge • WSH 21
7. Williams • SLB 20
8. Meusel • NYY 17
Pipp • NYY 17
Ruth • NYY 17

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Tobin • SLB 179
2. Heilmann • DET 161
3. Jacobson • SLB 154
4. Witt • PHA 152
5. Sisler • SLB 148
6. Collins • CHW 145
Johnson • CHW 145
8. Judge • WSH 143
9. Harris • WSH 139
10. McInnis • BOS 138
Gardner • CLE 138

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 239
2. Heilmann • DET 167
3. Cobb • DET 166
4. Speaker • CLE 146
5. Williams • SLB 145
6. Sisler • SLB 140
7. Veach • DET 133
8. Meusel • NYY 128
9. Walker • PHA 126
10. Hooper • CHW 125

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 229
2. Heilmann • DET 159
3. Sisler • SLB 134
4. Cobb • DET 133
5. Williams • SLB 126
6. Tobin • SLB 124
7. Veach • DET 123
8. Speaker • CLE 118
Meusel • NYY 118
10. Jacobson • SLB 113

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 120
2. Heilmann • DET 60
3. Cobb • DET 52
4. Speaker • CLE 39
5. Williams • SLB 39
6. Sisler • SLB 33
7. Veach • DET 28
8. Walker • PHA 22
9. Meusel • NYY 21
10. Blue • DET 20

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 10.9
2. Heilmann • DET 5.5
3. Cobb • DET 4.8
4. Speaker • CLE 3.6
Williams • SLB 3.6
6. Sisler • SLB 3.0
7. Veach • DET 2.6
8. Walker • PHA 2.1
9. Meusel • NYY 1.9
10. Blue • DET 1.9

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Ruth • NYY 119
2. Meusel • NYY 80
3. Heilmann • DET 76
4. Veach • DET 72
5. Speaker • CLE 69
6. Sisler • SLB 68
7. Cobb • DET 65
8. Williams • SLB 62
9. Dykes • PHA 61
10. Walker • PHA 60

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 353
2. Heilmann • DET 292
3. Blue • DET 288
4. Tobin • SLB 284
5. Witt • PHA 276
6. Sewell • CLE 273
7. Williams • SLB 268
8. Judge • WSH 258
9. Gardner • CLE 256
Cobb • DET 256
Veach • DET 256
Jacobson • SLB 256

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 .905
2. Heilmann • DET .805
3. Cobb • DET .790
4. Speaker • CLE .752
5. Sisler • SLB .747
6. Williams • SLB .721
7. Veach • DET .669
8. Meusel • NYY .667
9. Jacobson • SLB .660
10. Schang • NYY .656
Tobin • SLB .656

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Harris • WSH 18
2. Dykes • PHA 15
3. Mostil • CHW 13
4. Sewell • CLE 11
5. Menosky • BOS 9
Rice • WSH 9
7. Ward • NYY 8
8. Schalk • CHW 7
Sheely • CHW 7
O'Rourke • WSH 7

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Wambsganss • CLE 43
2. Bush • 2TM 41
3. McInnis • BOS 35
4. Mulligan • CHW 34
5. Peckinpaugh • NYY 33
Pipp • NYY 33
7. Gardner • CLE 31
8. Ellerbe • 2TM 30
9. Ward • NYY 29
10. Johnston • CLE 27
Veach • DET 27
Harris • WSH 27

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Mulligan • CHW 18
2. Blue • DET 17
Williams • SLB 17
4. Cobb • DET 15
Witt • PHA 15
6. Johnson • CHW 13
Ruth • NYY 13
Bush • 2TM 13
9. Mostil • CHW 12
Tobin • SLB 12
Rice • WSH 12

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. Ruth • NYY 26.4
2. Williams • SLB 21.8
3. Meusel • NYY 19.9
4. Sisler • SLB 17.9
5. Cobb • DET 15.5
6. Veach • DET 14.9
7. Pipp • NYY 10.9
8. Judge • WSH 10.5
9. Hooper • CHW 9.9
10. Dykes • PHA 8.7

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. McInnis • BOS 64.9
2. Rice • WSH 56.1
3. Severeid • SLB 52.4
4. Pratt • BOS 52.1
5. Collins • CHW 47.8
6. Speaker • CLE 42.2
7. Gardner • CLE 36.6
8. Sewell • CLE 33.6
9. Milan • WSH 31.2
10. Tobin • SLB 30.5

AB per HR

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

1. Ruth • NYY 9.2
2. Williams • SLB 22.8
3. Walker • PHA 24.2
4. Meusel • NYY 24.9
5. Smith • CLE 26.9
6. Heilmann • DET 31.7
7. Veach • DET 38.3
8. Dykes • PHA 38.3
9. Cobb • DET 42.3
10. Perkins • PHA 44.8

Outs Made

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

1. Mulligan • CHW 508
2. Johnson • CHW 466
3. Witt • PHA 465
4. Dykes • PHA 463
Judge • WSH 463
6. Tobin • SLB 459
7. Pipp • NYY 457
8. Scott • BOS 451
Harris • WSH 451
10. Falk • CHW 446
Peckinpaugh • NYY 446

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 134.12
2. Cobb • DET 59.19
3. Heilmann • DET 57.92
4. Speaker • CLE 52.51
5. Sisler • SLB 51.22
6. Veach • DET 44.47
7. Meusel • NYY 35.22
8. Williams • SLB 34.29
9. Schang • NYY 32.03
10. Tobin • SLB 29.60

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 11.1
2. Heilmann • DET 5.3
3. Tobin • SLB 3.8
4. Severeid • SLB 3.4
5. Sisler • SLB 3.3
6. Speaker • CLE 3.3
7. Veach • DET 3.1
8. Williams • SLB 2.9
9. Gardner • CLE 2.8
10. Cobb • DET 2.7

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 11.2
2. Heilmann • DET 4.7
3. Sisler • SLB 4.3
4. Cobb • DET 3.9
5. Speaker • CLE 3.6
6. Williams • SLB 3.4
7. Veach • DET 3.0
8. Tobin • SLB 2.9
9. Meusel • NYY 2.6
10. Schang • NYY 2.4

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 44.9
2. Gardner • CLE 11.8
3. Burns • CLE 10.7
4. Schang • NYY 9.8
5. Speaker • CLE 8.9
6. Sewell • CLE 7.7
7. Meusel • NYY 6.1
8. Pipp • NYY 5.4
9. Heilmann • DET 4.5
10. Graney • CLE 3.7

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 12.0
2. Cobb • DET 5.5
3. Heilmann • DET 5.4
4. Speaker • CLE 4.8
5. Sisler • SLB 4.6
6. Veach • DET 4.1
7. Meusel • NYY 3.2
8. Williams • SLB 3.1
9. Schang • NYY 2.9
10. Tobin • SLB 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 .571
2. Cobb • DET .474
3. Heilmann • DET .474
4. Speaker • CLE .451
5. Sisler • SLB .447
6. Williams • SLB .445
7. Veach • DET .417
8. Schang • NYY .416
9. Hooper • CHW .409
10. Walker • PHA .408

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 238
2. Cobb • DET 179
3. Heilmann • DET 179
4. Speaker • CLE 159
5. Williams • SLB 156
6. Sisler • SLB 149
7. Veach • DET 141
8. Hooper • CHW 136
9. Schang • NYY 136
10. Walker • PHA 133

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