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 11.4
2. Uhle • CLE 9.2
3. Gehrig • NYY 6.9
4. Goslin • WSH 6.9
5. Grove • PHA 6.6
6. Mostil • CHW 6.4
7. Sewell • CLE 6.0
8. Lyons • CHW 5.8
9. Falk • CHW 5.7
10. Speaker • CLE 5.5

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. Ruth • NYY 11.4
2. Gehrig • NYY 6.9
3. Goslin • WSH 6.9
4. Mostil • CHW 6.4
5. Sewell • CLE 6.0
6. Falk • CHW 5.7
7. Speaker • CLE 5.5
8. Manush • DET 5.2
9. Burns • CLE 5.1
10. Kamm • CHW 5.1

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 10.9
2. Gehrig • NYY 6.4
3. Goslin • WSH 6.3
4. Manush • DET 5.8
5. Heilmann • DET 5.7
6. Sewell • CLE 5.5
7. Simmons • PHA 5.5
8. Mostil • CHW 5.4
9. Speaker • CLE 4.9
10. Falk • CHW 4.9

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. Kamm • CHW 1.9
2. Sewell • CLE 1.5
3. Bishop • PHA 1.3
4. Rigney • BOS 1.3
5. Haney • BOS 1.2
6. Lutzke • CLE 1.1
7. Spurgeon • CLE 1.0
8. Dykes • PHA 0.9
9. Schang • SLB 0.9
10. Bassler • DET 0.8

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. Manush • DET .378
2. Ruth • NYY .372
3. Fothergill • DET .367
4. Heilmann • DET .367
5. Burns • CLE .358
6. Goslin • WSH .354
7. Falk • CHW .345
8. Collins • CHW .344
9. Simmons • PHA .341
10. Rice • WSH .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 .516
2. Heilmann • DET .445
3. Collins • CHW .441
4. Collins • NYY .433
5. Bishop • PHA .431
6. Goslin • WSH .425
7. Fothergill • DET .421
8. Manush • DET .421
9. Gehrig • NYY .420
10. Mostil • CHW .415

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 .737
2. Simmons • PHA .564
3. Manush • DET .564
4. Gehrig • NYY .549
5. Goslin • WSH .542
6. Heilmann • DET .534
7. Schang • SLB .516
8. Williams • SLB .510
9. Fothergill • DET .506
10. Burns • CLE .494

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 1.253
2. Manush • DET .985
3. Heilmann • DET .979
4. Gehrig • NYY .969
5. Goslin • WSH .967
6. Simmons • PHA .957
7. Fothergill • DET .927
8. Schang • SLB .921
9. Collins • CHW .900
10. Falk • CHW .892

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Tavener • DET 156
2. Falk • CHW 155
Gehrig • NYY 155
Lazzeri • NYY 155
5. Todt • BOS 154
Sewell • CLE 154
Summa • CLE 154
8. Ruth • NYY 152
Rice • WSH 152
10. Burns • CLE 151

At Bats

At Bats

1. Rice • WSH 641
2. Koenig • NYY 617
3. Spurgeon • CLE 614
4. Sisler • SLB 613
5. Combs • NYY 606
6. Burns • CLE 603
7. Mostil • CHW 600
8. Todt • BOS 599
9. Lazzeri • NYY 589
10. Simmons • PHA 583

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. Rice • WSH 704
2. Mostil • CHW 702
3. Gehrig • NYY 697
4. Koenig • NYY 679
5. Spurgeon • CLE 678
6. Sewell • CLE 672
7. Combs • NYY 670
8. Lazzeri • NYY 665
9. Todt • BOS 663
Sisler • SLB 663

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Ruth • NYY 139
2. Gehrig • NYY 135
3. Mostil • CHW 120
4. Combs • NYY 113
5. Goslin • WSH 105
6. McManus • SLB 102
7. Spurgeon • CLE 101
8. Rice • WSH 98
9. Burns • CLE 97
10. Speaker • CLE 96

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Burns • CLE 216
Rice • WSH 216
3. Goslin • WSH 201
4. Simmons • PHA 199
5. Mostil • CHW 197
6. Falk • CHW 195
7. Manush • DET 188
8. Sewell • CLE 187
9. Heilmann • DET 184
Ruth • NYY 184

Total Bases

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

1. Ruth • NYY 365
2. Simmons • PHA 329
3. Gehrig • NYY 314
4. Goslin • WSH 308
5. Burns • CLE 298
6. Rice • WSH 285
7. Manush • DET 281
8. Mostil • CHW 280
9. Lazzeri • NYY 272
10. Falk • CHW 270

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Burns • CLE 64
2. Simmons • PHA 53
3. Speaker • CLE 52
4. Jacobson • 2TM 51
5. Gehrig • NYY 47
6. Falk • CHW 43
7. Mostil • CHW 41
Sewell • CLE 41
Heilmann • DET 41
10. Sheely • CHW 40

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Gehrig • NYY 20
2. Gehringer • DET 17
3. Mostil • CHW 15
Goslin • WSH 15
5. Blue • DET 14
Tavener • DET 14
Lazzeri • NYY 14
Rice • WSH 14
9. Todt • BOS 12
Combs • NYY 12
Sisler • SLB 12
McNeely • WSH 12

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Ruth • NYY 47
2. Simmons • PHA 19
3. Lazzeri • NYY 18
4. Goslin • WSH 17
Williams • SLB 17
6. Gehrig • NYY 16
7. Manush • DET 14
8. Meusel • NYY 12
9. Heilmann • DET 9
Rice • SLB 9
McManus • SLB 9

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Ruth • NYY 153
2. Lazzeri • NYY 117
3. Burns • CLE 115
4. Simmons • PHA 110
5. Gehrig • NYY 109
Goslin • WSH 109
7. Falk • CHW 108
8. Heilmann • DET 101
9. Judge • WSH 92
10. Jacobson • 2TM 89

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Ruth • NYY 144
2. Bishop • PHA 116
3. Rigney • BOS 108
4. Gehrig • NYY 105
5. Speaker • CLE 94
6. Blue • DET 90
7. Mostil • CHW 79
8. Kamm • CHW 77
9. Sheely • CHW 75
10. Haney • BOS 74

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Lazzeri • NYY 96
2. Ruth • NYY 76
3. Gehrig • NYY 73
4. McManus • SLB 62
5. Collins • NYY 57
6. Mostil • CHW 55
7. Tavener • DET 53
8. Simmons • PHA 49
9. Bluege • WSH 46
10. Gehringer • DET 42
Grove • PHA 42

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Mostil • CHW 35
2. Hunnefield • CHW 24
Rice • WSH 24
4. McNeely • WSH 18
5. Sewell • CLE 17
6. Lazzeri • NYY 16
Meusel • NYY 16
Harris • WSH 16
9. Summa • CLE 15
10. Haney • BOS 13
Collins • CHW 13
Burns • CLE 13
Blue • DET 13

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Rice • WSH 167
2. Spurgeon • CLE 147
3. Burns • CLE 145
4. Goslin • WSH 143
5. Falk • CHW 140
6. Summa • CLE 138
Sisler • SLB 138
8. Mostil • CHW 137
Sewell • CLE 137
10. Rice • SLB 135

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 226
2. Manush • DET 154
3. Heilmann • DET 154
4. Goslin • WSH 153
5. Gehrig • NYY 153
6. Simmons • PHA 143
7. Fothergill • DET 140
8. Collins • CHW 138
9. Schang • SLB 135
10. Falk • CHW 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 185
2. Gehrig • NYY 131
3. Simmons • PHA 130
4. Goslin • WSH 127
5. Heilmann • DET 116
Manush • DET 116
7. Mostil • CHW 115
Burns • CLE 115
9. Falk • CHW 109
10. Speaker • CLE 104

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 101
2. Gehrig • NYY 46
3. Goslin • WSH 44
4. Heilmann • DET 43
5. Manush • DET 38
6. Simmons • PHA 35
7. Mostil • CHW 32
8. Falk • CHW 32
9. Burns • CLE 27
10. Speaker • CLE 26

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 9.5
2. Gehrig • NYY 4.5
3. Goslin • WSH 4.2
4. Heilmann • DET 4.1
5. Manush • DET 3.7
6. Simmons • PHA 3.3
7. Mostil • CHW 3.1
8. Falk • CHW 3.1
9. Burns • CLE 2.6
10. Speaker • CLE 2.5

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Gehrig • NYY 83
2. Ruth • NYY 82
Simmons • PHA 82
4. Burns • CLE 71
5. Speaker • CLE 67
6. Jacobson • 2TM 61
7. Mostil • CHW 60
Lazzeri • NYY 60
9. Heilmann • DET 58
Goslin • WSH 58

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 331
2. Mostil • CHW 286
3. Gehrig • NYY 285
4. Goslin • WSH 271
5. Falk • CHW 263
6. Sewell • CLE 260
Rice • WSH 260
8. Speaker • CLE 258
9. Heilmann • DET 255
10. Burns • CLE 252

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 .893
2. Manush • DET .768
3. Heilmann • DET .761
4. Simmons • PHA .757
5. Goslin • WSH .752
6. Gehrig • NYY .744
7. Fothergill • DET .706
8. Burns • CLE .699
9. Collins • CHW .699
10. Schang • SLB .694

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Mostil • CHW 10
2. Harris • WSH 9
3. Summa • CLE 8
Sewell • CLE 8
Dykes • PHA 8
Burns • CLE 8
7. Sheely • CHW 7
O'Rourke • DET 7
Miller • 2TM 7
Goslin • WSH 7

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Spurgeon • CLE 35
2. Hunnefield • CHW 31
3. Haney • BOS 28
Speaker • CLE 28
Manush • DET 28
Tavener • DET 28
7. Gehringer • DET 27
Miller • 2TM 27
Harris • WSH 27
10. Rigney • BOS 26
Sewell • CLE 26
Cochrane • PHA 26
Jacobson • 2TM 26

Intentional Bases on Balls

<strong>Intentional Bases on Balls</strong><br>First tracked in 1955.

1. Heilmann • DET 14
2. Ruth • NYY 13
3. Simmons • PHA 6
4. Judge • WSH 3
Cochrane • PHA 3
Falk • CHW 3
Kamm • CHW 3
Fothergill • DET 3
Sheely • CHW 3
10. Sisler • SLB 2
Collins • NYY 2
Manush • DET 2
Bassler • DET 2
Poole • PHA 2
Sewell • CLE 2
Williams • SLB 2
Jacobson • 2TM 2
Goslin • WSH 2
Grabowski • CHW 2
Collins • CHW 2

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Rice • WSH 23
2. Meusel • NYY 17
3. Mostil • CHW 14
4. Fothergill • DET 12
5. Morehart • CHW 11
Rice • SLB 11
Harris • WSH 11
Myer • WSH 11
9. Falk • CHW 10
Miller • 2TM 10

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 17.8
2. Lazzeri • NYY 16.9
3. Simmons • PHA 13.9
4. Meusel • NYY 13.7
5. Manush • DET 12.3
6. Goslin • WSH 10.9
7. Rice • SLB 9.5
8. Sisler • SLB 8.8
9. Gehrig • NYY 8.7
10. Falk • CHW 8.5

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. Sewell • CLE 96.3
2. Summa • CLE 64.6
3. Collins • CHW 46.9
4. Sheely • CHW 40.4
5. Speaker • CLE 35.9
6. Rice • WSH 32.1
7. Lamar • PHA 27.9
8. Dugan • NYY 27.1
9. Heilmann • DET 26.4
10. Combs • NYY 26.3

AB per HR

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

1. Ruth • NYY 10.5
2. Williams • SLB 20.4
3. Simmons • PHA 30.7
4. Lazzeri • NYY 32.7
5. Goslin • WSH 33.4
6. Meusel • NYY 34.4
7. Manush • DET 35.6
8. Schang • SLB 35.6
9. Gehrig • NYY 35.8
10. Collins • NYY 41.4

Outs Made

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

1. Spurgeon • CLE 470
Koenig • NYY 470
3. Todt • BOS 467
4. Rice • WSH 466
5. Sisler • SLB 459
6. Lazzeri • NYY 454
7. Combs • NYY 445
8. Jacobson • 2TM 433
9. Mostil • CHW 430
10. Summa • CLE 426
Tavener • DET 426

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 110.36
2. Gehrig • NYY 69.37
3. Simmons • PHA 45.03
4. Burns • CLE 44.01
5. Speaker • CLE 43.74
6. Falk • CHW 42.28
7. Goslin • WSH 42.08
8. Heilmann • DET 41.43
9. Collins • CHW 37.74
10. Mostil • CHW 33.08

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 9.3
2. Gehrig • NYY 5.9
3. Burns • CLE 5.9
4. Simmons • PHA 5.5
5. Speaker • CLE 5.1
6. Mostil • CHW 3.9
7. Heilmann • DET 3.6
8. Collins • CHW 3.5
9. Falk • CHW 2.9
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 9.6
2. Gehrig • NYY 5.2
3. Simmons • PHA 3.9
4. Goslin • WSH 3.6
5. Burns • CLE 3.6
6. Heilmann • DET 3.3
7. Manush • DET 3.1
8. Speaker • CLE 3.0
9. Mostil • CHW 2.9
10. Sewell • CLE 2.7

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 25.9
2. Gehrig • NYY 17.3
3. Burns • CLE 7.7
4. Speaker • CLE 6.4
5. Lazzeri • NYY 5.7
6. Collins • CHW 5.2
7. Falk • CHW 4.3
8. Mostil • CHW 3.6
9. Paschal • NYY 3.5
10. Simmons • PHA 3.5

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 10.4
2. Gehrig • NYY 6.6
3. Simmons • PHA 4.2
4. Burns • CLE 4.2
5. Speaker • CLE 4.2
6. Falk • CHW 4.1
7. Goslin • WSH 4.1
8. Heilmann • DET 4.0
9. Collins • CHW 3.7
10. Mostil • CHW 3.2

rOBA

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

1. Ruth • NYY .544
2. Manush • DET .454
3. Heilmann • DET .448
4. Goslin • WSH .443
5. Gehrig • NYY .440
6. Simmons • PHA .435
7. Collins • CHW .429
8. Schang • SLB .423
9. Fothergill • DET .418
10. Mostil • CHW .415

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 234
2. Manush • DET 169
3. Heilmann • DET 167
4. Goslin • WSH 166
5. Gehrig • NYY 162
6. Collins • CHW 155
7. Fothergill • DET 152
8. Simmons • PHA 150
9. Falk • CHW 149
10. Schang • SLB 147

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