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. Gehrig • NYY 10.0
2. Gehringer • DET 8.8
3. Foxx • PHA 8.3
4. Gomez • NYY 7.9
5. Harder • CLE 7.7
6. Rowe • DET 6.9
7. Averill • CLE 6.8
8. Greenberg • DET 6.3
9. Newsom • SLB 5.6
10. Rogell • DET 5.6

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. Gehrig • NYY 10.0
2. Gehringer • DET 8.8
3. Foxx • PHA 8.3
4. Averill • CLE 6.8
5. Greenberg • DET 6.3
6. Rogell • DET 5.6
7. Trosky • CLE 5.5
8. Werber • BOS 5.3
9. Ruth • NYY 5.0
10. Johnson • PHA 4.8

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. Gehrig • NYY 9.8
2. Gehringer • DET 7.9
3. Foxx • PHA 7.7
4. Averill • CLE 6.5
5. Greenberg • DET 6.1
6. Trosky • CLE 5.8
7. Higgins • PHA 5.2
8. Myer • WSH 5.1
9. Werber • BOS 4.8
10. Manush • WSH 4.6

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. Rogell • DET 2.2
2. Cronin • WSH 1.5
3. Gehringer • DET 1.5
4. McNair • PHA 1.4
5. Warstler • PHA 1.4
6. Hemsley • SLB 1.3
Crosetti • NYY 1.3
8. Knickerbocker • CLE 1.2
9. Kamm • CLE 1.0
10. Werber • BOS 1.0

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. Gehrig • NYY .363
2. Gehringer • DET .356
3. Manush • WSH .349
4. Simmons • CHW .344
5. Vosmik • CLE .341
6. Greenberg • DET .339
7. Foxx • PHA .334
8. Higgins • PHA .330
9. Trosky • CLE .330
10. West • SLB .326

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. Gehrig • NYY .465
2. Gehringer • DET .450
3. Foxx • PHA .449
4. Ruth • NYY .448
5. Cochrane • DET .428
6. Myer • WSH .419
7. White • DET .419
8. Averill • CLE .414
9. Greenberg • DET .404
10. Simmons • CHW .403

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. Gehrig • NYY .706
2. Foxx • PHA .653
3. Greenberg • DET .600
4. Trosky • CLE .598
5. Averill • CLE .569
6. Johnson • PHA .563
7. Bonura • CHW .545
8. Ruth • NYY .537
9. Simmons • CHW .530
10. Manush • WSH .523

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. Gehrig • NYY 1.172
2. Foxx • PHA 1.102
3. Greenberg • DET 1.005
4. Trosky • CLE .987
5. Ruth • NYY .985
6. Averill • CLE .982
7. Gehringer • DET .967
8. Johnson • PHA .938
9. Simmons • CHW .933
10. Bonura • CHW .925

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Averill • CLE 154
Trosky • CLE 154
Gehringer • DET 154
Owen • DET 154
Rogell • DET 154
Gehrig • NYY 154
Burns • SLB 154
8. Greenberg • DET 153
Cramer • PHA 153
10. Werber • BOS 152

At Bats

At Bats

1. Cramer • PHA 649
2. Trosky • CLE 625
3. Werber • BOS 623
4. Goslin • DET 614
5. Burns • SLB 612
6. Gehringer • DET 601
7. McNair • PHA 599
8. Averill • CLE 598
9. Knickerbocker • CLE 593
Greenberg • DET 593

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. Werber • BOS 716
2. Gehringer • DET 708
3. Averill • CLE 705
4. Cramer • PHA 703
5. Gehrig • NYY 690
6. Burns • SLB 688
7. Goslin • DET 686
8. Trosky • CLE 685
9. Rogell • DET 679
10. Greenberg • DET 667

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Gehringer • DET 135
2. Werber • BOS 129
3. Averill • CLE 128
Gehrig • NYY 128
5. Foxx • PHA 120
6. Greenberg • DET 118
7. Trosky • CLE 117
8. Rogell • DET 115
9. Johnson • PHA 111
10. Goslin • DET 106

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Gehringer • DET 214
2. Gehrig • NYY 210
3. Trosky • CLE 206
4. Cramer • PHA 202
5. Greenberg • DET 201
6. Werber • BOS 200
7. Manush • WSH 194
8. Simmons • CHW 192
9. Knickerbocker • CLE 188
10. Averill • CLE 187
Goslin • DET 187

Total Bases

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

1. Gehrig • NYY 409
2. Trosky • CLE 374
3. Greenberg • DET 356
4. Foxx • PHA 352
5. Averill • CLE 340
6. Gehringer • DET 311
7. Johnson • PHA 308
8. Simmons • CHW 296
9. Werber • BOS 294
10. Manush • WSH 291

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Greenberg • DET 63
2. Gehringer • DET 50
3. Averill • CLE 48
4. Trosky • CLE 45
5. Hale • CLE 44
6. Johnson • BOS 43
7. Manush • WSH 42
8. Werber • BOS 41
9. Gehrig • NYY 40
10. Goslin • DET 38

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Chapman • NYY 13
2. Manush • WSH 11
3. Johnson • BOS 10
Werber • BOS 10
Crosetti • NYY 10
Clift • SLB 10
West • SLB 10
8. Reynolds • BOS 9
Trosky • CLE 9
Owen • DET 9
Cramer • PHA 9
Cronin • WSH 9

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Gehrig • NYY 49
2. Foxx • PHA 44
3. Trosky • CLE 35
4. Johnson • PHA 34
5. Averill • CLE 31
6. Bonura • CHW 27
7. Greenberg • DET 26
8. Ruth • NYY 22
9. Simmons • CHW 18
10. McNair • PHA 17

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Gehrig • NYY 166
2. Trosky • CLE 142
3. Greenberg • DET 139
4. Foxx • PHA 130
5. Gehringer • DET 127
6. Johnson • BOS 119
7. Averill • CLE 113
8. Bonura • CHW 110
9. Simmons • CHW 104
10. Hale • CLE 101
Pepper • SLB 101
Cronin • WSH 101

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Foxx • PHA 111
2. Gehrig • NYY 109
3. Ruth • NYY 104
4. Myer • WSH 102
5. Averill • CLE 99
Gehringer • DET 99
7. Clift • SLB 84
8. Bishop • BOS 82
9. Morgan • BOS 81
10. Cochrane • DET 78

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Clift • SLB 100
2. Greenberg • DET 93
3. Foxx • PHA 75
4. Higgins • PHA 70
5. Chapman • NYY 68
6. Pepper • SLB 67
7. Lazzeri • NYY 64
Campbell • SLB 64
9. Ruth • NYY 63
10. Johnson • PHA 60

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Werber • BOS 40
2. White • DET 28
3. Chapman • NYY 26
4. Fox • DET 25
5. Walker • DET 20
6. Rogell • DET 13
7. Johnson • PHA 12
Lary • 2TM 12
9. Pytlak • CLE 11
Foxx • PHA 11
Gehringer • DET 11
Johnson • BOS 11
Lazzeri • NYY 11
Cissell • BOS 11

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Cramer • PHA 158
2. Knickerbocker • CLE 147
3. Gehringer • DET 146
4. Chapman • NYY 142
5. Werber • BOS 138
6. Rogell • DET 132
7. Simmons • CHW 131
Pepper • SLB 131
9. Manush • WSH 130
10. Goslin • DET 129

Adjusted OPS+

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

1. Gehrig • NYY 207
2. Foxx • PHA 186
3. Ruth • NYY 160
4. Greenberg • DET 156
5. Trosky • CLE 150
6. Averill • CLE 150
7. Gehringer • DET 149
8. Johnson • PHA 143
9. Manush • WSH 138
10. Simmons • CHW 137

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. Gehrig • NYY 189
2. Foxx • PHA 159
3. Trosky • CLE 144
4. Greenberg • DET 143
5. Averill • CLE 139
6. Gehringer • DET 138
7. Werber • BOS 118
Simmons • CHW 118
9. Johnson • PHA 113
Manush • WSH 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. Gehrig • NYY 93
2. Foxx • PHA 71
3. Gehringer • DET 50
4. Greenberg • DET 49
5. Averill • CLE 47
6. Trosky • CLE 43
7. Ruth • NYY 38
8. Johnson • PHA 32
9. Simmons • CHW 30
10. Manush • WSH 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. Gehrig • NYY 8.5
2. Foxx • PHA 6.5
3. Gehringer • DET 4.6
4. Greenberg • DET 4.5
5. Averill • CLE 4.3
6. Trosky • CLE 4.0
7. Ruth • NYY 3.6
8. Johnson • PHA 2.9
9. Simmons • CHW 2.8
10. Manush • WSH 2.8

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Greenberg • DET 96
2. Gehrig • NYY 95
3. Trosky • CLE 89
4. Averill • CLE 85
5. Foxx • PHA 78
6. Gehringer • DET 68
7. Bonura • CHW 66
Johnson • PHA 66
9. Manush • WSH 64
10. Hale • CLE 63

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 321
2. Gehringer • DET 316
3. Foxx • PHA 292
4. Averill • CLE 290
5. Werber • BOS 278
6. Trosky • CLE 266
Greenberg • DET 266
8. Myer • WSH 263
9. Goslin • DET 254
10. Chapman • NYY 251

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. Gehrig • NYY .859
2. Foxx • PHA .825
3. Greenberg • DET .759
4. Gehringer • DET .752
5. Trosky • CLE .749
6. Averill • CLE .742
7. Ruth • NYY .733
8. Simmons • CHW .726
9. Manush • WSH .702
10. Bonura • CHW .691

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Pytlak • CLE 5
Crosetti • NYY 5
3. Fox • DET 4
Owen • DET 4
Cochrane • DET 4
Dykes • CHW 4
Bejma • SLB 4
Averill • CLE 4
9. Manush • WSH 3
Gehringer • DET 3
Chapman • NYY 3
Cascarella • PHA 3
Stone • WSH 3
Reynolds • BOS 3

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Haas • CHW 24
2. Werber • BOS 15
Warstler • PHA 15
Lary • 2TM 15
5. Rogell • DET 13
Gomez • NYY 13
Stewart • WSH 13
8. Dykes • CHW 12
Knickerbocker • CLE 12
Crosetti • NYY 12
Cramer • PHA 12
Williams • PHA 12
Burns • SLB 12

Intentional Bases on Balls

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

1. Foxx • PHA 17
2. Simmons • CHW 14
3. Gehrig • NYY 13
4. Trosky • CLE 12
5. Gehringer • DET 9
6. Berry • PHA 6
Ferrell • BOS 6
Owen • DET 6
Greenberg • DET 6
10. Phillips • WSH 5
Hayworth • DET 5
Averill • CLE 5

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Chapman • NYY 16
2. Werber • BOS 15
3. Hale • CLE 12
4. Fox • DET 10
5. Walker • DET 9
6. McNair • PHA 8
Gehringer • DET 8
Johnson • PHA 8
9. Kuhel • WSH 7
Schulte • WSH 7

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. Johnson • PHA 17.7
2. Foxx • PHA 17.6
3. Werber • BOS 17.3
4. Gehrig • NYY 15.2
5. Greenberg • DET 13.4
6. Lazzeri • NYY 12.3
7. Higgins • PHA 11.5
8. Gehringer • DET 11.0
9. Burns • SLB 10.6
10. McNair • PHA 9.9

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. Vosmik • CLE 40.5
2. Manush • WSH 24.2
3. Gehringer • DET 24.0
4. Dickey • NYY 21.9
5. Ferrell • BOS 21.9
6. Melillo • SLB 20.4
7. Gehrig • NYY 18.7
8. Cramer • PHA 18.5
9. Cissell • BOS 18.1
10. Cronin • WSH 18.0

AB per HR

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

1. Gehrig • NYY 11.8
2. Foxx • PHA 12.3
3. Johnson • PHA 16.1
4. Ruth • NYY 16.6
5. Trosky • CLE 17.9
6. Bonura • CHW 18.9
7. Averill • CLE 19.3
8. Greenberg • DET 22.8
9. Coleman • PHA 23.5
10. Simmons • CHW 31.0

Outs Made

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

1. Burns • SLB 470
2. Cramer • PHA 464
3. Werber • BOS 453
4. McNair • PHA 447
5. Goslin • DET 436
6. Rogell • DET 433
Melillo • SLB 433
8. Chapman • NYY 431
Clift • SLB 431
10. Crosetti • NYY 425

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. Gehrig • NYY 98.39
2. Foxx • PHA 75.44
3. Gehringer • DET 70.96
4. Trosky • CLE 58.45
5. Averill • CLE 58.21
6. Ruth • NYY 46.26
7. Greenberg • DET 42.72
8. Johnson • BOS 40.56
9. Simmons • CHW 40.22
10. Higgins • PHA 33.81

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>A change of +/- 1 would indicate one win added or lost.

1. Gehrig • NYY 8.9
2. Foxx • PHA 8.2
3. Gehringer • DET 6.7
4. Greenberg • DET 5.1
5. Averill • CLE 4.9
6. Trosky • CLE 4.3
7. Cochrane • DET 3.9
8. Johnson • PHA 3.8
9. Ruth • NYY 3.7
10. Manush • WSH 2.9

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. Gehrig • NYY 8.5
2. Foxx • PHA 6.1
3. Gehringer • DET 5.3
4. Averill • CLE 4.7
5. Trosky • CLE 4.6
6. Greenberg • DET 4.4
7. Ruth • NYY 4.0
8. Johnson • PHA 3.9
9. Simmons • CHW 3.1
10. Myer • WSH 3.0

Championship WPA (cWPA)

<strong>Championship Win Probability Added for Offensive Player</strong><br>Given average teams, this is the change in probability, displayed in percentage points.<br>A change of +/- 100% would indicate one world series win added or lost.

1. Gehrig • NYY 23.5
2. Gehringer • DET 16.8
3. Greenberg • DET 12.5
4. Cochrane • DET 12.3
5. Owen • DET 11.2
6. Goslin • DET 8.8
7. Ruth • NYY 8.7
8. Rogell • DET 6.2
9. White • DET 6.0
10. Chapman • NYY 5.4

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. Gehrig • NYY 9.2
2. Foxx • PHA 7.1
3. Gehringer • DET 6.5
4. Trosky • CLE 5.4
5. Averill • CLE 5.4
6. Ruth • NYY 4.4
7. Greenberg • DET 4.0
8. Simmons • CHW 3.7
9. Johnson • BOS 3.7
10. Higgins • PHA 3.2

rOBA

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

1. Gehrig • NYY .509
2. Foxx • PHA .480
3. Ruth • NYY .443
4. Gehringer • DET .442
5. Greenberg • DET .441
6. Averill • CLE .440
7. Trosky • CLE .433
8. Manush • WSH .415
9. Simmons • CHW .415
10. Bonura • CHW .414

Rbat+

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

1. Gehrig • NYY 212
2. Foxx • PHA 189
3. Ruth • NYY 169
4. Gehringer • DET 163
5. Greenberg • DET 161
6. Averill • CLE 159
7. Trosky • CLE 155
8. Johnson • PHA 149
9. Manush • WSH 148
10. Higgins • PHA 143

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