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. Grove • BOS 10.6
2. Gehrig • NYY 9.6
3. Gehringer • DET 7.9
4. Ferrell • BOS 7.7
5. Appling • CHW 7.1
6. Allen • CLE 6.9
7. Averill • CLE 6.8
8. Bridges • DET 6.3
9. Clift • SLB 5.9
10. Kelley • PHA 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. Gehrig • NYY 9.6
2. Gehringer • DET 7.9
3. Appling • CHW 7.1
4. Averill • CLE 6.8
5. Clift • SLB 5.9
6. Dickey • NYY 5.8
7. Foxx • BOS 5.5
8. Rolfe • NYY 5.0
9. Stone • WSH 4.9
10. DiMaggio • NYY 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. Gehrig • NYY 9.7
2. Gehringer • DET 7.5
3. Averill • CLE 7.2
4. Appling • CHW 6.7
5. Clift • SLB 5.9
6. Foxx • BOS 5.7
7. Dickey • NYY 5.3
8. Trosky • CLE 4.7
9. Stone • WSH 4.4
10. Kuhel • WSH 4.4

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 1.5
2. Appling • CHW 1.3
3. Hale • CLE 1.2
4. Hayes • CHW 1.1
Crosetti • NYY 1.1
6. Rolfe • NYY 1.0
7. Newsome • PHA 1.0
8. Gehringer • DET 1.0
Sewell • CHW 1.0
10. Ferrell • 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. Appling • CHW .388
2. Averill • CLE .378
3. Dickey • NYY .362
4. Gehringer • DET .354
5. Gehrig • NYY .354
6. Walker • DET .353
7. Moses • PHA .345
8. Bell • SLB .344
9. Trosky • CLE .343
10. Stone • WSH .341

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 .478
2. Appling • CHW .474
3. Foxx • BOS .440
4. Averill • CLE .438
5. Gehringer • DET .431
6. Dickey • NYY .428
7. Bonura • CHW .426
8. Clift • SLB .424
9. Stone • WSH .421
10. Selkirk • NYY .420

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 .696
2. Trosky • CLE .644
3. Foxx • BOS .631
4. Averill • CLE .627
5. Dickey • NYY .617
6. DiMaggio • NYY .576
7. Gehringer • DET .555
8. Stone • WSH .545
9. Walker • DET .536
10. Goslin • DET .526

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 1.174
2. Foxx • BOS 1.071
3. Averill • CLE 1.065
4. Dickey • NYY 1.045
5. Trosky • CLE 1.026
6. Gehringer • DET .987
7. Appling • CHW .981
8. Stone • WSH .965
9. Clift • SLB .938
10. Selkirk • NYY .931

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Foxx • BOS 155
Knickerbocker • CLE 155
Gehrig • NYY 155
Bell • SLB 155
Lary • SLB 155
6. Cramer • BOS 154
Gehringer • DET 154
Owen • DET 154
9. Hale • CLE 153
Johnson • PHA 153

At Bats

At Bats

1. Finney • PHA 653
2. Cramer • BOS 643
3. Gehringer • DET 641
4. Hughes • CLE 638
5. DiMaggio • NYY 637
6. Crosetti • NYY 632
7. Trosky • CLE 629
8. Solters • SLB 628
9. Hale • CLE 620
10. Lary • SLB 619

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. Lary • SLB 745
2. Crosetti • NYY 740
3. Gehringer • DET 731
4. Gehrig • NYY 719
5. Cramer • BOS 713
6. Hughes • CLE 708
7. Finney • PHA 703
8. Clift • SLB 701
9. Foxx • BOS 693
Hale • CLE 693

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Gehrig • NYY 167
2. Clift • SLB 145
3. Gehringer • DET 144
4. Crosetti • NYY 137
5. Averill • CLE 136
6. DiMaggio • NYY 132
7. Foxx • BOS 130
8. Hale • CLE 126
9. Trosky • CLE 124
10. Goslin • DET 122

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Averill • CLE 232
2. Gehringer • DET 227
3. Trosky • CLE 216
4. Bell • SLB 212
5. Radcliff • CHW 207
6. DiMaggio • NYY 206
7. Gehrig • NYY 205
8. Appling • CHW 204
9. Moses • PHA 202
10. Foxx • BOS 198

Total Bases

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

1. Trosky • CLE 405
2. Gehrig • NYY 403
3. Averill • CLE 385
4. Foxx • BOS 369
5. DiMaggio • NYY 367
6. Gehringer • DET 356
7. Hale • CLE 314
8. Bell • SLB 309
9. Goslin • DET 301
10. Johnson • PHA 297

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Gehringer • DET 60
2. Walker • DET 55
3. Hale • CLE 50
Chapman • 2TM 50
5. Trosky • CLE 45
Solters • SLB 45
7. DiMaggio • NYY 44
8. Kuhel • WSH 42
9. Bell • SLB 40
Clift • SLB 40

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Averill • CLE 15
DiMaggio • NYY 15
Rolfe • NYY 15
4. Johnson • PHA 14
5. Hale • CLE 13
Lewis • WSH 13
7. Gehringer • DET 12
Bell • SLB 12
9. Kreevich • CHW 11
Moses • PHA 11
Bottomley • SLB 11
Clift • SLB 11
Stone • WSH 11

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Gehrig • NYY 49
2. Trosky • CLE 42
3. Foxx • BOS 41
4. DiMaggio • NYY 29
5. Averill • CLE 28
6. Johnson • PHA 25
7. Goslin • DET 24
8. Dickey • NYY 22
9. Clift • SLB 20
10. Selkirk • NYY 18

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Trosky • CLE 162
2. Gehrig • NYY 152
3. Foxx • BOS 143
4. Bonura • CHW 138
5. Solters • SLB 134
6. Appling • CHW 128
7. Averill • CLE 126
8. Goslin • DET 125
DiMaggio • NYY 125
10. Bell • SLB 123

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Gehrig • NYY 130
2. Lary • SLB 117
3. Clift • SLB 115
4. Foxx • BOS 105
5. Lazzeri • NYY 97
6. Bonura • CHW 94
Selkirk • NYY 94
West • SLB 94
9. Crosetti • NYY 90
10. Werber • BOS 89

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Foxx • BOS 119
2. Crosetti • NYY 83
3. Solters • SLB 76
4. Johnson • PHA 71
5. Puccinelli • PHA 70
West • SLB 70
7. Clift • SLB 68
8. Lazzeri • NYY 65
9. Higgins • PHA 61
10. Selkirk • NYY 60

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Lary • SLB 37
2. Powell • 2TM 26
3. Werber • BOS 23
4. Hughes • CLE 20
Chapman • 2TM 20
6. Crosetti • NYY 18
7. Walker • DET 17
8. Kuhel • WSH 15
Piet • CHW 15
10. Rogell • DET 14
Goslin • DET 14

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Radcliff • CHW 161
2. Appling • CHW 160
Finney • PHA 160
4. Cramer • BOS 150
Averill • CLE 150
6. Moses • PHA 149
Bell • SLB 149
8. Hughes • CLE 144
9. Lary • SLB 141
10. Gehringer • DET 140

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 190
2. Dickey • NYY 158
3. Averill • CLE 157
4. Foxx • BOS 155
5. Trosky • CLE 146
6. Stone • WSH 143
7. Gehringer • DET 142
8. Appling • CHW 139
9. Selkirk • NYY 132
10. Clift • SLB 129

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. Averill • CLE 167
3. Foxx • BOS 163
4. Gehringer • DET 153
5. Trosky • CLE 152
6. DiMaggio • NYY 128
7. Appling • CHW 126
8. Bell • SLB 125
Clift • SLB 125
10. Goslin • DET 123

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 87
2. Averill • CLE 54
3. Foxx • BOS 52
4. Gehringer • DET 45
5. Trosky • CLE 39
6. Appling • CHW 39
7. Dickey • NYY 38
8. Clift • SLB 30
9. Stone • WSH 30
10. Selkirk • NYY 27

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 7.6
2. Averill • CLE 4.7
3. Foxx • BOS 4.6
4. Gehringer • DET 4.0
5. Trosky • CLE 3.5
6. Appling • CHW 3.4
7. Dickey • NYY 3.3
8. Clift • SLB 2.7
9. Stone • WSH 2.6
10. Selkirk • NYY 2.4

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Trosky • CLE 96
2. Gehrig • NYY 93
3. DiMaggio • NYY 88
4. Gehringer • DET 87
5. Averill • CLE 82
6. Foxx • BOS 81
7. Hale • CLE 77
8. Walker • DET 72
9. Clift • SLB 71
10. Solters • SLB 69

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 342
2. Gehringer • DET 314
3. Foxx • BOS 304
4. Averill • CLE 298
Lary • SLB 298
6. Clift • SLB 296
7. Bonura • CHW 292
8. Appling • CHW 290
9. Crosetti • NYY 284
10. Bell • SLB 273

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 .830
2. Averill • CLE .791
3. Foxx • BOS .779
4. Dickey • NYY .771
5. Appling • CHW .748
6. Gehringer • DET .737
7. Trosky • CLE .732
8. Stone • WSH .721
9. Goslin • DET .672
10. Clift • SLB .668

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Crosetti • NYY 12
2. Piet • CHW 9
3. Walker • DET 8
4. Owen • DET 7
Gehrig • NYY 7
Clift • SLB 7
7. Bluege • WSH 6
8. Cramer • BOS 5
McNair • BOS 5
10. DiMaggio • NYY 4
Hughes • CLE 4
Dykes • CHW 4
Bonura • CHW 4
Werber • BOS 4
Kuhel • WSH 4
Lewis • WSH 4
Gehringer • DET 4

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Haas • CHW 23
2. Warstler • PHA 17
3. Cramer • BOS 16
4. Kreevich • CHW 15
5. Grove • BOS 12
Melillo • BOS 12
Owen • DET 12
8. Werber • BOS 11
Dykes • CHW 11
Knickerbocker • CLE 11
Newsome • PHA 11

Intentional Bases on Balls

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

1. Sewell • CHW 12
2. Foxx • BOS 11
Vosmik • CLE 11
4. Gehrig • NYY 9
Bonura • CHW 9
6. Johnson • PHA 8
7. Lazzeri • NYY 7
Dickey • NYY 7
Simmons • DET 7
Goslin • DET 7
Averill • CLE 7

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Knickerbocker • CLE 14
2. Werber • BOS 13
3. Powell • 2TM 11
4. Rogell • DET 10
5. Hughes • CLE 9
Chapman • 2TM 9
Lary • SLB 9
Finney • PHA 9
9. Walker • DET 8
Burns • 2TM 8
Weatherly • CLE 8

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. Foxx • BOS 19.7
2. Goslin • DET 17.7
3. Crosetti • NYY 16.4
4. Kuhel • WSH 15.5
5. Selkirk • NYY 15.1
6. Clift • SLB 15.0
7. Walker • DET 14.1
8. Werber • BOS 13.9
9. Powell • 2TM 12.2
10. Trosky • CLE 10.5

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. Radcliff • CHW 51.5
2. Gehringer • DET 49.3
3. Cramer • BOS 32.2
4. Finney • PHA 29.7
5. Sewell • CHW 28.2
6. Dickey • NYY 26.4
7. Travis • WSH 24.6
8. Ferrell • BOS 24.1
9. Vosmik • CLE 24.1
10. Appling • CHW 21.0

AB per HR

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

1. Gehrig • NYY 11.8
2. Foxx • BOS 14.3
3. Trosky • CLE 15.0
4. Dickey • NYY 19.2
5. Averill • CLE 21.9
6. DiMaggio • NYY 22.0
7. Johnson • PHA 22.6
8. Goslin • DET 23.8
9. Selkirk • NYY 27.4
10. Clift • SLB 28.8

Outs Made

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

1. Cramer • BOS 477
2. Hughes • CLE 468
3. Finney • PHA 465
4. Crosetti • NYY 463
5. Knickerbocker • CLE 461
6. Lary • SLB 456
7. Solters • SLB 451
8. Rogell • DET 441
9. Hale • CLE 438
10. Lewis • WSH 437

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 95.28
2. Appling • CHW 71.51
3. Averill • CLE 66.66
4. Foxx • BOS 64.18
5. Gehringer • DET 54.85
6. Trosky • CLE 53.13
7. Bonura • CHW 52.47
8. Dickey • NYY 50.82
9. Clift • SLB 44.10
10. Stone • WSH 40.57

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. Gehrig • NYY 7.1
2. Averill • CLE 5.4
3. Appling • CHW 5.2
4. Dickey • NYY 5.1
5. Foxx • BOS 5.1
6. Stone • WSH 4.2
7. Trosky • CLE 4.1
8. Gehringer • DET 3.6
9. Clift • SLB 3.4
10. Goslin • DET 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. Gehrig • NYY 7.4
2. Averill • CLE 5.7
3. Foxx • BOS 4.8
4. Dickey • NYY 4.6
5. Appling • CHW 4.4
6. Gehringer • DET 4.4
7. Clift • SLB 4.1
8. Trosky • CLE 3.7
9. Stone • WSH 3.2
10. Goslin • DET 2.8

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. Gehrig • NYY 18.2
2. Selkirk • NYY 7.9
3. Dickey • NYY 7.8
4. Foxx • BOS 6.3
5. DiMaggio • NYY 4.5
6. Goslin • DET 4.3
7. Trosky • CLE 3.1
8. Stone • WSH 3.1
9. Averill • CLE 3.0
10. Gehringer • DET 2.7

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. Gehrig • NYY 8.4
2. Appling • CHW 6.2
3. Averill • CLE 5.8
4. Foxx • BOS 5.5
5. Gehringer • DET 4.8
6. Trosky • CLE 4.6
7. Bonura • CHW 4.6
8. Dickey • NYY 4.5
9. Clift • SLB 3.9
10. Stone • WSH 3.7

rOBA

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

1. Gehrig • NYY .504
2. Averill • CLE .467
3. Foxx • BOS .460
4. Dickey • NYY .457
5. Appling • CHW .452
6. Gehringer • DET .446
7. Trosky • CLE .439
8. Stone • WSH .437
9. Clift • SLB .427
10. Selkirk • NYY .419

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 196
2. Dickey • NYY 166
3. Averill • CLE 166
4. Foxx • BOS 158
5. Appling • CHW 157
6. Gehringer • DET 154
7. Stone • WSH 153
8. Trosky • CLE 148
9. Selkirk • NYY 141
10. Clift • SLB 139

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