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 14.1
2. Heilmann • DET 9.3
3. Speaker • CLE 9.1
4. Uhle • CLE 7.8
5. Williams • SLB 7.7
6. Sewell • CLE 7.5
7. Shocker • SLB 6.5
8. Collins • CHW 6.4
9. Pennock • NYY 6.2
10. Ehmke • BOS 6.1

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 14.1
2. Heilmann • DET 9.3
3. Speaker • CLE 9.1
4. Williams • SLB 7.7
5. Sewell • CLE 7.5
6. Collins • CHW 6.4
7. Cobb • DET 5.6
8. Jamieson • CLE 5.3
9. Bassler • DET 4.9
10. Harris • BOS 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 12.2
2. Speaker • CLE 9.2
3. Heilmann • DET 8.9
4. Sewell • CLE 8.1
5. Williams • SLB 7.2
6. Collins • CHW 6.6
7. Cobb • DET 5.0
8. Jamieson • CLE 4.9
9. Harris • BOS 4.7
10. Rigney • DET 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. Bassler • DET 2.2
2. Ward • NYY 2.1
3. Peckinpaugh • WSH 1.8
4. Ruel • WSH 1.7
5. Kamm • CHW 1.6
6. Scott • NYY 1.5
7. Lutzke • CLE 1.4
Dugan • NYY 1.4
9. Gerber • SLB 1.3
10. Ruth • NYY 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. Heilmann • DET .403
2. Ruth • NYY .393
3. Speaker • CLE .380
4. Collins • CHW .360
5. Williams • SLB .357
6. Sewell • CLE .353
7. Jamieson • CLE .345
8. Cobb • DET .340
9. Harris • BOS .335
10. Manush • 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 .545
2. Heilmann • DET .481
3. Speaker • CLE .469
4. Sewell • CLE .456
5. Collins • CHW .455
6. Williams • SLB .439
7. Jamieson • CLE .422
8. Bassler • DET .414
9. Cobb • DET .413
10. Judge • WSH .406

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 .764
2. Heilmann • DET .632
3. Williams • SLB .623
4. Speaker • CLE .610
5. Harris • BOS .520
6. Brower • CLE .509
7. McManus • SLB .481
8. Sewell • CLE .479
9. Meusel • NYY .478
10. Tobin • SLB .476

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 1.309
2. Heilmann • DET 1.113
3. Speaker • CLE 1.079
4. Williams • SLB 1.062
5. Sewell • CLE .935
6. Harris • BOS .925
7. Collins • CHW .909
8. Brower • CLE .901
9. Cobb • DET .882
10. Manush • DET .877

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Sheely • CHW 156
2. Gerber • SLB 154
McManus • SLB 154
Peckinpaugh • WSH 154
5. Mostil • CHW 153
Sewell • CLE 153
7. Jamieson • CLE 152
Ruth • NYY 152
Scott • NYY 152
Ward • NYY 152

At Bats

At Bats

1. Jamieson • CLE 644
Dugan • NYY 644
3. Tobin • SLB 637
4. Gerber • SLB 605
5. Goslin • WSH 600
6. Witt • NYY 596
7. Rice • WSH 595
8. Jacobson • SLB 592
9. McManus • SLB 582
10. Hooper • CHW 576

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. Jamieson • CLE 746
2. Ruth • NYY 699
3. Tobin • SLB 696
4. Speaker • CLE 695
5. Gerber • SLB 692
6. Witt • NYY 686
7. Sewell • CLE 685
8. Dugan • NYY 684
9. Sheely • CHW 683
10. Peckinpaugh • WSH 673

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Ruth • NYY 151
2. Speaker • CLE 133
3. Jamieson • CLE 130
4. Heilmann • DET 121
5. Rice • WSH 117
6. Witt • NYY 113
7. Dugan • NYY 111
8. Williams • SLB 106
9. Cobb • DET 103
10. Blue • DET 100

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Jamieson • CLE 222
2. Speaker • CLE 218
3. Heilmann • DET 211
4. Ruth • NYY 205
5. Tobin • SLB 202
6. Williams • SLB 198
7. Sewell • CLE 195
8. Cobb • DET 189
9. Rice • WSH 188
10. Witt • NYY 187

Total Bases

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

1. Ruth • NYY 399
2. Speaker • CLE 350
3. Williams • SLB 346
4. Heilmann • DET 331
5. Tobin • SLB 303
6. Jamieson • CLE 288
7. McManus • SLB 280
8. Goslin • WSH 272
9. Rice • WSH 268
10. Sewell • CLE 265

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Speaker • CLE 59
2. Burns • BOS 47
3. Ruth • NYY 45
4. Heilmann • DET 44
5. Sewell • CLE 41
6. Cobb • DET 40
7. Kamm • CHW 39
8. Mostil • CHW 37
Williams • SLB 37
10. Jamieson • CLE 36

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Goslin • WSH 18
Rice • WSH 18
3. Mostil • CHW 15
Tobin • SLB 15
5. Ruth • NYY 13
Harris • WSH 13
7. Jamieson • CLE 12
Williams • SLB 12
9. Harris • BOS 11
Speaker • CLE 11
Heilmann • DET 11
Rigney • DET 11
Ward • NYY 11

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Ruth • NYY 41
2. Williams • SLB 29
3. Heilmann • DET 18
4. Hauser • PHA 17
Speaker • CLE 17
6. Brower • CLE 16
7. McManus • SLB 15
8. Harris • BOS 13
Tobin • SLB 13
10. Miller • PHA 12

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Speaker • CLE 130
Ruth • NYY 130
3. Heilmann • DET 115
4. Sewell • CLE 109
Pipp • NYY 109
6. Goslin • WSH 99
7. Hauser • PHA 94
McManus • SLB 94
9. Meusel • NYY 91
Williams • SLB 91

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Ruth • NYY 170
2. Sewell • CLE 98
3. Blue • DET 96
4. Speaker • CLE 93
5. Collins • CHW 84
6. Jamieson • CLE 80
7. Sheely • CHW 79
Williams • SLB 79
9. Bassler • DET 76
10. Heilmann • DET 74

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Ruth • NYY 93
2. Kamm • CHW 82
3. Ward • NYY 65
4. Schliebner • SLB 60
5. Lutzke • CLE 57
6. Bluege • WSH 53
Goslin • WSH 53
8. Meusel • NYY 52
Hauser • PHA 52
10. Mostil • CHW 51

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Collins • CHW 48
2. Mostil • CHW 41
3. Harris • WSH 23
4. Rice • WSH 20
5. Hooper • CHW 18
Kamm • CHW 18
Jamieson • CLE 18
Williams • SLB 18
9. Ruth • NYY 17
10. Elsh • CHW 16
Matthews • PHA 16

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Jamieson • CLE 172
2. Witt • NYY 153
3. Collins • CHW 150
4. Tobin • SLB 142
5. Sewell • CLE 141
6. Pipp • NYY 140
Gerber • SLB 140
Jacobson • SLB 140
9. Heilmann • DET 138
Dugan • NYY 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 194
3. Speaker • CLE 182
4. Williams • SLB 171
5. Sewell • CLE 146
6. Harris • BOS 142
7. Collins • CHW 142
8. Brower • CLE 136
9. Cobb • DET 134
10. Manush • DET 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. Ruth • NYY 209
2. Speaker • CLE 160
3. Heilmann • DET 156
4. Williams • SLB 146
5. Jamieson • CLE 119
Sewell • CLE 119
7. Tobin • SLB 107
8. Cobb • DET 105
9. Collins • CHW 103
10. Harris • BOS 101
Rice • WSH 101

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 121
2. Heilmann • DET 74
3. Speaker • CLE 74
4. Williams • SLB 58
5. Sewell • CLE 45
6. Collins • CHW 37
7. Jamieson • CLE 30
8. Cobb • DET 30
9. Harris • BOS 29
10. Hauser • PHA 23

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 11.3
2. Heilmann • DET 7.0
3. Speaker • CLE 7.0
4. Williams • SLB 5.5
5. Sewell • CLE 4.3
6. Collins • CHW 3.5
7. Jamieson • CLE 2.9
8. Cobb • DET 2.9
9. Harris • BOS 2.8
10. Hauser • PHA 2.2

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Ruth • NYY 99
2. Speaker • CLE 87
3. Williams • SLB 78
4. Heilmann • DET 73
5. McManus • SLB 60
Tobin • SLB 60
7. Burns • BOS 59
8. Goslin • WSH 56
Rice • WSH 56
10. Mostil • CHW 55

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 379
2. Speaker • CLE 315
3. Jamieson • CLE 308
4. Sewell • CLE 300
5. Heilmann • DET 290
6. Williams • SLB 279
7. Collins • CHW 270
8. Cobb • DET 258
9. Witt • NYY 257
10. Sheely • CHW 253

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 .909
2. Heilmann • DET .852
3. Speaker • CLE .829
4. Williams • SLB .806
5. Sewell • CLE .736
6. Harris • BOS .728
7. Jamieson • CLE .682
8. Cobb • DET .679
Collins • CHW .679
10. Brower • CLE .666

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Manush • DET 17
2. Harris • WSH 13
3. Mostil • CHW 12
Hauser • PHA 12
5. Schang • NYY 9
6. Brower • CLE 8
Hale • PHA 8
Reichle • BOS 8
Bluege • WSH 8
10. Burns • BOS 7
Hooper • CHW 7
Sewell • CLE 7

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Peckinpaugh • WSH 40
2. Collins • CHW 39
3. McClellan • CHW 36
4. Rigney • DET 33
5. Jones • DET 29
6. Gerber • SLB 28
7. Wambsganss • CLE 27
Haney • DET 27
9. Sheely • CHW 26
10. Summa • CLE 25
Harris • WSH 25

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Collins • CHW 29
2. Ruth • NYY 21
3. Hooper • CHW 18
4. Williams • SLB 17
5. Mostil • CHW 16
Matthews • PHA 16
Harris • WSH 16
8. Meusel • NYY 15
9. Fewster • BOS 14
Jamieson • CLE 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. Ruth • NYY 24.0
2. Williams • SLB 22.2
3. McManus • SLB 14.5
4. Hooper • CHW 12.9
5. Heilmann • DET 12.0
6. Speaker • CLE 10.9
7. Meusel • NYY 10.6
8. Miller • PHA 10.3
9. Tobin • SLB 9.9
10. Harris • BOS 9.1

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. Collins • CHW 63.1
2. Rice • WSH 49.6
3. Tobin • SLB 49.0
4. Sewell • CLE 46.1
5. Cobb • DET 39.7
6. Severeid • SLB 39.3
7. Speaker • CLE 38.3
8. Pratt • DET 33.0
9. Bassler • DET 29.5
10. Jones • DET 28.6

AB per HR

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

1. Ruth • NYY 12.7
2. Williams • SLB 19.1
3. Brower • CLE 24.8
4. Heilmann • DET 29.1
5. Hauser • PHA 31.6
6. Speaker • CLE 33.8
7. Harris • BOS 37.2
8. Miller • PHA 38.2
9. McManus • SLB 38.8
10. Flagstead • 2TM 47.9

Outs Made

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

1. Dugan • NYY 477
2. Gerber • SLB 469
3. McClellan • CHW 468
4. Peckinpaugh • WSH 466
5. Tobin • SLB 455
6. Jamieson • CLE 448
7. Hooper • CHW 442
8. Witt • NYY 435
Jacobson • SLB 435
McManus • SLB 435
Goslin • WSH 435

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 121.89
2. Speaker • CLE 92.62
3. Heilmann • DET 62.50
4. Sewell • CLE 54.24
5. Williams • SLB 50.32
6. Cobb • DET 31.10
7. Harris • BOS 30.09
8. Hauser • PHA 29.30
9. Brower • CLE 26.30
10. Rice • WSH 25.23

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 11.8
2. Speaker • CLE 7.2
3. Williams • SLB 5.1
4. Heilmann • DET 4.2
5. Sewell • CLE 3.6
6. Cobb • DET 3.4
7. Harris • BOS 3.1
8. Burns • BOS 3.1
9. Rice • WSH 2.5
10. Hauser • PHA 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. Ruth • NYY 10.6
2. Speaker • CLE 6.2
3. Heilmann • DET 5.4
4. Williams • SLB 5.0
5. Sewell • CLE 3.7
6. Harris • BOS 2.7
7. Collins • CHW 2.6
8. Hauser • PHA 2.1
9. Rice • WSH 2.1
10. Burns • BOS 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. Ruth • NYY 16.6
2. Speaker • CLE 5.3
3. Witt • NYY 5.1
4. Smith • NYY 4.3
5. Jamieson • CLE 4.3
6. Ward • NYY 2.8
7. Cobb • DET 2.6
8. Sewell • CLE 2.6
9. Williams • SLB 2.1
10. Brower • CLE 1.8

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 11.3
2. Speaker • CLE 8.8
3. Heilmann • DET 6.0
4. Sewell • CLE 5.2
5. Williams • SLB 4.7
6. Cobb • DET 3.0
7. Harris • BOS 2.9
8. Hauser • PHA 2.8
9. Brower • CLE 2.5
10. Rice • WSH 2.5

rOBA

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

1. Ruth • NYY .565
2. Heilmann • DET .508
3. Speaker • CLE .496
4. Williams • SLB .479
5. Sewell • CLE .447
6. Collins • CHW .434
7. Harris • BOS .433
8. Brower • CLE .417
9. Cobb • DET .416
10. Jamieson • CLE .413

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 242
2. Heilmann • DET 208
3. Speaker • CLE 198
4. Williams • SLB 181
5. Sewell • CLE 164
6. Collins • CHW 161
7. Harris • BOS 153
8. Cobb • DET 147
9. Brower • CLE 144
10. Manush • DET 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