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 10.5
2. Grove • PHA 10.0
3. Gehrig • NYY 8.6
4. Ferrell • CLE 8.0
5. Simmons • PHA 7.4
6. Cronin • WSH 6.8
7. Averill • CLE 6.5
8. Uhle • DET 6.2
9. Bishop • PHA 6.0
10. Chapman • NYY 5.9

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 10.5
2. Gehrig • NYY 8.6
3. Simmons • PHA 7.4
4. Cronin • WSH 6.8
5. Averill • CLE 6.5
6. Bishop • PHA 6.0
7. Chapman • NYY 5.9
8. Goslin • SLB 5.7
9. Cochrane • PHA 5.4
10. Blue • CHW 5.3

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. Ruth • NYY 10.6
2. Gehrig • NYY 9.3
3. Averill • CLE 6.7
4. Simmons • PHA 6.5
5. Goslin • SLB 5.8
6. Cronin • WSH 5.7
7. Cochrane • PHA 5.5
8. Blue • CHW 5.4
9. Webb • BOS 5.4
10. Combs • NYY 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. Bishop • PHA 2.2
2. Cronin • WSH 2.1
3. Melillo • SLB 1.3
4. Myer • WSH 1.2
5. Lary • NYY 1.1
6. Rhyne • BOS 1.1
7. West • WSH 1.0
8. McManus • 2TM 0.9
9. Dickey • NYY 0.8
10. Williams • PHA 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. Simmons • PHA .390
2. Ruth • NYY .373
3. Morgan • CLE .351
4. Cochrane • PHA .349
5. Gehrig • NYY .341
6. Averill • CLE .333
7. Webb • BOS .333
8. West • WSH .333
9. Goslin • SLB .328
10. Stone • DET .327

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 .495
2. Morgan • CLE .451
3. Gehrig • NYY .446
4. Simmons • PHA .444
5. Blue • CHW .430
6. Bishop • PHA .426
7. Cochrane • PHA .423
8. Goslin • SLB .412
9. Averill • CLE .404
10. Webb • BOS .404

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 .700
2. Gehrig • NYY .662
3. Simmons • PHA .641
4. Averill • CLE .576
5. Foxx • PHA .567
6. Goslin • SLB .555
7. Cochrane • PHA .553
8. Webb • BOS .528
9. Morgan • CLE .511
10. Kress • SLB .493

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 1.195
2. Gehrig • NYY 1.108
3. Simmons • PHA 1.085
4. Averill • CLE .979
5. Cochrane • PHA .976
6. Goslin • SLB .967
7. Morgan • CLE .961
8. Foxx • PHA .947
9. Webb • BOS .932
10. Chapman • NYY .879

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Cronin • WSH 156
2. Blue • CHW 155
Averill • CLE 155
Gehrig • NYY 155
Lary • NYY 155
6. Bluege • WSH 152
7. Webb • BOS 151
Johnson • DET 151
Goslin • SLB 151
Melillo • SLB 151

At Bats

At Bats

1. Averill • CLE 627
2. Johnson • DET 621
3. Gehrig • NYY 619
4. Melillo • SLB 617
5. Manush • WSH 616
6. Cronin • WSH 611
7. Lary • NYY 610
8. Kress • SLB 605
9. Chapman • NYY 600
10. Vosmik • CLE 591
Goslin • SLB 591
Myer • WSH 591

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. Gehrig • NYY 738
2. Blue • CHW 726
3. Lary • NYY 712
4. Averill • CLE 701
5. Cronin • WSH 700
6. Johnson • DET 698
7. Chapman • NYY 686
8. Goslin • SLB 675
9. Manush • WSH 666
10. Myer • WSH 664

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Gehrig • NYY 163
2. Ruth • NYY 149
3. Averill • CLE 140
4. Chapman • NYY 120
Combs • NYY 120
6. Blue • CHW 119
7. Bishop • PHA 115
8. Goslin • SLB 114
Myer • WSH 114
10. Manush • WSH 110

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Gehrig • NYY 211
2. Averill • CLE 209
3. Simmons • PHA 200
4. Ruth • NYY 199
5. Webb • BOS 196
6. Goslin • SLB 194
7. Stone • DET 191
8. Vosmik • CLE 189
Chapman • NYY 189
Melillo • SLB 189
Manush • WSH 189

Total Bases

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

1. Gehrig • NYY 410
2. Ruth • NYY 374
3. Averill • CLE 361
4. Simmons • PHA 329
5. Goslin • SLB 328
6. Webb • BOS 311
7. Kress • SLB 298
8. Cronin • WSH 293
9. Foxx • PHA 292
10. Chapman • NYY 290

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Webb • BOS 67
2. Alexander • DET 47
3. Kress • SLB 46
4. Cronin • WSH 44
5. Miller • PHA 43
West • WSH 43
7. Goslin • SLB 42
8. Manush • WSH 41
9. Johnson • DET 37
Simmons • PHA 37

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Johnson • DET 19
2. Blue • CHW 15
Gehrig • NYY 15
4. Reynolds • CHW 14
Vosmik • CLE 14
6. Combs • NYY 13
Simmons • PHA 13
Cronin • WSH 13
West • WSH 13
10. Stone • DET 11
Chapman • NYY 11
Melillo • SLB 11
Manush • WSH 11
Myer • WSH 11

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Gehrig • NYY 46
Ruth • NYY 46
3. Averill • CLE 32
4. Foxx • PHA 30
5. Goslin • SLB 24
6. Simmons • PHA 22
7. Chapman • NYY 17
Cochrane • PHA 17
9. Kress • SLB 16
10. Webb • BOS 14

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Gehrig • NYY 185
2. Ruth • NYY 162
3. Averill • CLE 143
4. Simmons • PHA 128
5. Cronin • WSH 126
6. Chapman • NYY 122
7. Foxx • PHA 120
8. Vosmik • CLE 117
9. Kress • SLB 114
10. Lary • NYY 107

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Ruth • NYY 128
2. Blue • CHW 127
3. Gehrig • NYY 117
4. Bishop • PHA 112
5. Lary • NYY 88
6. Morgan • CLE 83
7. Cronin • WSH 81
8. Goslin • SLB 80
9. Lazzeri • NYY 79
10. Chapman • NYY 75

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Foxx • PHA 84
2. Levey • SLB 83
3. Lazzeri • NYY 80
4. Chapman • NYY 77
5. Blue • CHW 60
6. Burns • SLB 58
7. Gehrig • NYY 56
8. Lary • NYY 54
9. Pickering • BOS 53
10. Cronin • WSH 52

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Chapman • NYY 61
2. Johnson • DET 33
3. Burns • SLB 19
4. Cissell • CHW 18
Lazzeri • NYY 18
6. Reynolds • CHW 17
Gehrig • NYY 17
8. Bluege • WSH 16
9. Kamm • 2TM 14
10. Rothrock • BOS 13
Blue • CHW 13
Gehringer • DET 13
Stone • DET 13
Lary • NYY 13
Levey • SLB 13

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Stone • DET 142
Melillo • SLB 142
3. Blue • CHW 140
4. Fonseca • 2TM 135
5. Chapman • NYY 133
6. Vosmik • CLE 132
7. Averill • CLE 131
Manush • WSH 131
9. Combs • NYY 130
10. Simmons • PHA 128

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 218
2. Gehrig • NYY 194
3. Simmons • PHA 175
4. Averill • CLE 150
5. Webb • BOS 149
6. Goslin • SLB 149
7. Cochrane • PHA 149
8. Morgan • CLE 147
9. Foxx • PHA 140
10. Chapman • NYY 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 184
2. Gehrig • NYY 180
3. Simmons • PHA 144
4. Averill • CLE 141
5. Goslin • SLB 133
6. Webb • BOS 125
7. Chapman • NYY 116
8. Cronin • WSH 112
9. Foxx • PHA 110
10. Cochrane • PHA 106

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 98
2. Gehrig • NYY 85
3. Simmons • PHA 56
4. Webb • BOS 45
5. Averill • CLE 44
6. Goslin • SLB 43
7. Morgan • CLE 37
8. Cochrane • PHA 34
9. Chapman • NYY 31
10. Blue • CHW 30

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 9.0
2. Gehrig • NYY 7.9
3. Simmons • PHA 5.2
4. Webb • BOS 4.2
5. Averill • CLE 4.2
6. Goslin • SLB 4.1
7. Morgan • CLE 3.5
8. Cochrane • PHA 3.2
9. Chapman • NYY 3.0
10. Blue • CHW 2.8

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Gehrig • NYY 92
2. Webb • BOS 84
3. Ruth • NYY 80
4. Averill • CLE 78
5. Goslin • SLB 76
6. Foxx • PHA 72
Simmons • PHA 72
8. Kress • SLB 70
9. Cronin • WSH 69
10. Johnson • DET 64

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. Gehrig • NYY 328
Ruth • NYY 328
3. Blue • CHW 309
4. Averill • CLE 283
5. Goslin • SLB 278
6. Cronin • WSH 272
7. Chapman • NYY 269
8. Webb • BOS 266
9. Lary • NYY 265
10. Bishop • PHA 260

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 .879
2. Simmons • PHA .841
3. Gehrig • NYY .824
4. Cochrane • PHA .762
5. Morgan • CLE .753
6. Averill • CLE .745
7. Goslin • SLB .745
8. Webb • BOS .729
9. Foxx • PHA .705
10. Chapman • NYY .660

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Miller • PHA 10
2. Sewell • NYY 9
3. Dykes • PHA 6
Reynolds • CHW 6
Lary • NYY 6
Averill • CLE 6
Manush • WSH 6
8. Kuhel • WSH 5
Bluege • WSH 5
Chapman • NYY 5

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Haas • PHA 19
2. Sewell • NYY 17
3. Owen • DET 12
Kamm • 2TM 12
5. Fonseca • 2TM 11
Rice • WSH 11
7. Sweeney • BOS 10
Kerr • CHW 10
Watwood • CHW 10
Montague • CLE 10

Intentional Bases on Balls

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

1. Gehrig • NYY 14
2. Simmons • PHA 10
3. Alexander • DET 8
Webb • BOS 8
5. Goslin • SLB 7
Berry • BOS 7
7. Sewell • CLE 6
Spencer • WSH 6
Combs • NYY 6
10. Manush • WSH 5
Ruth • NYY 5

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Chapman • NYY 23
2. Johnson • DET 21
3. Kress • SLB 16
4. Myer • WSH 14
5. Stone • DET 13
6. Burns • SLB 12
Sweeney • BOS 12
Gehrig • NYY 12
9. Melillo • SLB 11
10. Bluege • WSH 10
Lary • NYY 10
Kamm • 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. Chapman • NYY 26.6
2. Gehrig • NYY 24.8
3. Averill • CLE 14.0
4. Goslin • SLB 13.1
5. Johnson • DET 12.9
6. Stone • DET 11.3
Lary • NYY 11.3
8. Lazzeri • NYY 11.1
9. Cronin • WSH 10.9
10. Bluege • WSH 10.7

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. Sewell • NYY 60.5
2. Rice • WSH 37.5
3. Oliver • BOS 34.5
4. Miller • PHA 33.4
5. Ferrell • SLB 32.2
6. Koenig • DET 30.3
7. Gehringer • DET 25.5
8. Kamm • 2TM 24.7
9. Dickey • NYY 23.9
10. Spencer • WSH 23.0

AB per HR

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

1. Ruth • NYY 11.6
2. Gehrig • NYY 13.5
3. Foxx • PHA 17.2
4. Averill • CLE 19.6
5. Simmons • PHA 23.3
6. Goslin • SLB 24.6
7. Cochrane • PHA 27.0
8. Chapman • NYY 35.3
9. Kress • SLB 37.8
10. Pickering • BOS 37.9

Outs Made

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

1. Johnson • DET 471
2. Lary • NYY 457
3. Melillo • SLB 446
4. Burns • SLB 442
5. Myer • WSH 441
6. Chapman • NYY 440
7. Manush • WSH 438
8. Cronin • WSH 437
9. Oliver • BOS 436
Kress • SLB 436

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 112.70
2. Gehrig • NYY 97.03
3. Averill • CLE 67.76
4. Simmons • PHA 64.92
5. Chapman • NYY 57.58
6. Goslin • SLB 50.73
7. Morgan • CLE 47.27
8. Webb • BOS 44.28
9. Cochrane • PHA 43.88
10. Cronin • WSH 41.42

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 9.9
2. Gehrig • NYY 7.2
3. Simmons • PHA 7.0
4. Averill • CLE 4.2
5. Goslin • SLB 3.6
6. Blue • CHW 3.6
7. Webb • BOS 3.6
8. Foxx • PHA 3.6
9. Chapman • NYY 3.4
10. Morgan • CLE 3.3

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. Ruth • NYY 8.9
2. Gehrig • NYY 8.2
3. Simmons • PHA 5.7
4. Averill • CLE 5.4
5. Webb • BOS 3.8
6. Goslin • SLB 3.8
7. Morgan • CLE 3.7
8. Foxx • PHA 3.4
9. Blue • CHW 3.2
10. Chapman • NYY 3.2

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. Simmons • PHA 12.3
2. Ruth • NYY 6.4
3. Foxx • PHA 5.4
4. Haas • PHA 4.8
5. Bishop • PHA 4.6
6. Gehrig • NYY 4.2
7. Cochrane • PHA 4.1
8. Cronin • WSH 3.3
9. Chapman • NYY 3.2
10. Harris • WSH 2.9

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 10.6
2. Gehrig • NYY 9.2
3. Averill • CLE 6.2
4. Simmons • PHA 5.9
5. Chapman • NYY 5.5
6. Goslin • SLB 4.7
7. Morgan • CLE 4.3
8. Webb • BOS 4.3
9. Cochrane • PHA 4.0
10. Cronin • WSH 3.9

rOBA

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

1. Ruth • NYY .521
2. Gehrig • NYY .479
3. Simmons • PHA .478
4. Cochrane • PHA .442
5. Morgan • CLE .440
6. Averill • CLE .437
7. Goslin • SLB .432
8. Webb • BOS .418
9. Foxx • PHA .417
10. Chapman • NYY .404

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 220
2. Gehrig • NYY 195
3. Simmons • PHA 182
4. Morgan • CLE 159
5. Cochrane • PHA 158
6. Averill • CLE 156
7. Webb • BOS 155
8. Goslin • SLB 155
9. Foxx • PHA 142
10. Chapman • NYY 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