Major 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. Alexander • PHI 12.1
2. Johnson • WSH 11.2
3. Ruth • BOS 10.4
4. Speaker • CLE 8.9
5. Cobb • DET 8.0
6. Pfeffer • BRO 7.3
7. Jackson • CHW 7.1
8. Collins • CHW 7.0
9. Coveleski • DET 7.0
10. Shawkey • NYY 6.7

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. Speaker • CLE 8.9
2. Cobb • DET 8.0
3. Jackson • CHW 7.1
4. Collins • CHW 7.0
5. Fletcher • NYG 6.2
6. Wheat • BRO 6.2
7. Strunk • PHA 5.6
8. Groh • CIN 5.1
9. Maranville • BSN 5.1
10. Veach • DET 5.0

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. Speaker • CLE 8.8
2. Cobb • DET 8.7
3. Jackson • CHW 6.8
4. Collins • CHW 6.2
5. Hornsby • STL 5.7
6. Chase • CIN 5.5
Strunk • PHA 5.5
8. Wheat • BRO 4.9
9. Groh • CIN 4.9
10. Hinchman • PIT 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. Maranville • BSN 3.2
2. Fletcher • NYG 3.2
3. Bancroft • PHI 2.9
4. Vitt • DET 2.5
5. Walters • NYY 2.5
6. Wingo • CIN 2.3
7. Gowdy • BSN 2.1
8. Lavan • SLB 2.1
9. McBride • WSH 2.0
10. Peckinpaugh • NYY 2.0

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. Speaker • CLE .386
2. Cobb • DET .370
3. Jackson • CHW .341
4. Chase • CIN .339
5. Strunk • PHA .316
6. Daubert • BRO .316
7. Hinchman • PIT .315
8. Hornsby • STL .313
9. Wheat • BRO .312
10. Gardner • BOS .308

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. Speaker • CLE .470
2. Cobb • DET .451
3. Collins • CHW .405
4. Morgan • WSH .398
5. Jackson • CHW .393
6. Strunk • PHA .393
7. Shotton • SLB .392
8. Cravath • PHI .379
9. Hinchman • PIT .378
10. Williams • CHC .372

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. Speaker • CLE .502
2. Jackson • CHW .495
3. Cobb • DET .492
4. Wheat • BRO .461
5. Chase • CIN .459
6. Williams • CHC .459
7. Hornsby • STL .444
8. Cravath • PHI .440
9. Veach • DET .433
10. Baker • NYY .428

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. Speaker • CLE .972
2. Cobb • DET .943
3. Jackson • CHW .888
4. Williams • CHC .831
5. Wheat • BRO .828
6. Chase • CIN .822
7. Cravath • PHI .819
8. Strunk • PHA .814
9. Hornsby • STL .814
10. Hinchman • PIT .805

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Konetchy • BSN 158
Pratt • SLB 158
Foster • WSH 158
4. Shotton • SLB 156
Herzog • 2TM 156
6. Maranville • BSN 155
Collins • CHW 155
Jackson • CHW 155
Griffith • CIN 155
Graney • CLE 155
Burns • NYG 155

At Bats

At Bats

1. Burns • NYG 623
2. Shotton • SLB 614
3. Foster • WSH 606
4. Maranville • BSN 604
5. Carey • PIT 599
6. Vitt • DET 597
7. Pratt • SLB 596
8. Griffith • CIN 595
9. Jackson • CHW 592
10. Graney • CLE 589

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. Shotton • SLB 728
2. Vitt • DET 706
3. Graney • CLE 702
4. Burns • NYG 697
5. Foster • WSH 691
6. Maranville • BSN 680
Carey • PIT 680
8. Collins • CHW 675
9. Hooper • BOS 671
Pratt • SLB 671

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Cobb • DET 113
2. Graney • CLE 106
3. Burns • NYG 105
4. Speaker • CLE 102
5. Shotton • SLB 97
6. Veach • DET 92
7. Jackson • CHW 91
8. Carey • PIT 90
9. Vitt • DET 88
Robertson • NYG 88

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Speaker • CLE 211
2. Jackson • CHW 202
3. Cobb • DET 201
4. Chase • CIN 184
5. Robertson • NYG 180
6. Wheat • BRO 177
Sisler • SLB 177
8. Hinchman • PIT 175
9. Burns • NYG 174
Shotton • SLB 174

Total Bases

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

1. Jackson • CHW 293
2. Speaker • CLE 274
3. Cobb • DET 267
4. Wheat • BRO 262
5. Robertson • NYG 250
6. Chase • CIN 249
7. Veach • DET 245
8. Hinchman • PIT 237
9. Felsch • CHW 233
Pratt • SLB 233

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Niehoff • PHI 42
2. Graney • CLE 41
Speaker • CLE 41
4. Jackson • CHW 40
5. Pratt • SLB 35
6. Veach • DET 33
7. Wheat • BRO 32
8. Cobb • DET 31
9. Heilmann • DET 30
Strunk • PHA 30
Paskert • PHI 30

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Jackson • CHW 21
2. Collins • CHW 17
3. Hinchman • PIT 16
4. Veach • DET 15
Kauff • NYG 15
Witt • PHA 15
Hornsby • STL 15
Roush • 2TM 15
9. Myers • BRO 14
Groh • CIN 14
Graney • CLE 14
Pipp • NYY 14

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Williams • CHC 12
Robertson • NYG 12
Pipp • NYY 12
4. Cravath • PHI 11
5. Baker • NYY 10
6. Wheat • BRO 9
Kauff • NYG 9
8. Stengel • BRO 8
Paskert • PHI 8
10. Saier • CHC 7
Felsch • CHW 7
Schang • PHA 7
Carey • PIT 7
Merkle • 2TM 7

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Pratt • SLB 103
2. Pipp • NYY 93
3. Veach • DET 89
4. Zimmerman • 2TM 83
5. Chase • CIN 82
6. Speaker • CLE 79
7. Jackson • CHW 78
8. Heilmann • DET 77
9. Hinchman • PIT 76
Sisler • SLB 76

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Shotton • SLB 110
2. Graney • CLE 102
3. Collins • CHW 86
4. Groh • CIN 84
5. Speaker • CLE 82
6. Hooper • BOS 80
7. Saier • CHC 79
8. Cobb • DET 78
9. Bush • DET 75
Vitt • DET 75

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Cravath • PHI 89
2. Pipp • NYY 82
3. Neale • CIN 79
4. Betzel • STL 77
5. Paskert • PHI 76
Miller • SLB 76
7. Graney • CLE 72
8. Witt • PHA 71
9. Maranville • BSN 69
10. Saier • CHC 68

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Cobb • DET 68
2. Carey • PIT 63
3. Marsans • SLB 46
4. Shotton • SLB 41
5. Collins • CHW 40
Kauff • NYG 40
7. Bescher • STL 39
8. Burns • NYG 37
9. Speaker • CLE 35
10. Sisler • SLB 34
Herzog • 2TM 34
Milan • WSH 34

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Speaker • CLE 160
2. Cobb • DET 155
3. Shotton • SLB 144
4. Robertson • NYG 142
5. Sisler • SLB 141
6. Chase • CIN 139
7. Jackson • CHW 138
8. Collins • CHW 137
Burns • NYG 137
Hinchman • PIT 137

Adjusted OPS+

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

1. Speaker • CLE 186
2. Cobb • DET 179
3. Jackson • CHW 166
4. Chase • CIN 155
5. Hornsby • STL 151
6. Strunk • PHA 151
7. Wheat • BRO 150
8. Hinchman • PIT 147
9. Cravath • PHI 147
10. Williams • CHC 144

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. Cobb • DET 125
2. Speaker • CLE 124
3. Jackson • CHW 112
4. Wheat • BRO 94
5. Chase • CIN 89
Hinchman • PIT 89
7. Collins • CHW 88
Veach • DET 88
9. Strunk • PHA 85
10. Shotton • SLB 83

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. Speaker • CLE 64
2. Cobb • DET 56
3. Jackson • CHW 45
4. Strunk • PHA 35
5. Wheat • BRO 33
6. Chase • CIN 32
7. Hinchman • PIT 31
8. Collins • CHW 30
9. Hornsby • STL 29
10. Cravath • PHI 28

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. Speaker • CLE 7.1
2. Cobb • DET 6.3
3. Jackson • CHW 5.0
4. Strunk • PHA 3.9
5. Wheat • BRO 3.8
6. Chase • CIN 3.7
7. Hinchman • PIT 3.5
8. Collins • CHW 3.3
9. Hornsby • STL 3.3
10. Cravath • PHI 3.2

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Jackson • CHW 64
2. Graney • CLE 60
3. Wheat • BRO 54
4. Pratt • SLB 52
5. Speaker • CLE 51
Veach • DET 51
7. Niehoff • PHI 50
8. Cobb • DET 46
Kauff • NYG 46
Pipp • NYY 46

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. Speaker • CLE 297
2. Shotton • SLB 284
3. Cobb • DET 281
4. Collins • CHW 257
5. Jackson • CHW 253
6. Graney • CLE 246
7. Strunk • PHA 241
8. Burns • NYG 238
9. Hooper • BOS 237
Groh • CIN 237

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. Speaker • CLE .850
Cobb • DET .850
3. Jackson • CHW .794
4. Chase • CIN .768
5. Wheat • BRO .768
6. Hornsby • STL .758
7. Hinchman • PIT .752
8. Cravath • PHI .741
9. Williams • CHC .738
10. Strunk • PHA .704

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Barry • BOS 17
2. Fletcher • NYG 14
3. Weaver • CHW 13
4. Schang • PHA 10
Herzog • 2TM 10
Morgan • WSH 10
7. Williams • CHC 9
Howard • CLE 9
Miller • SLB 9
Merkle • 2TM 9

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Weaver • CHW 44
2. Chapman • CLE 40
3. Flack • CHC 39
Collins • CHW 39
5. Daubert • BRO 35
6. Vitt • DET 32
7. Mowrey • BRO 31
8. Scott • BOS 30
Wambsganss • CLE 30
Whitted • PHI 30

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Shotton • SLB 28
Herzog • 2TM 28
3. Speaker • CLE 27
4. Stock • PHI 26
Marsans • SLB 26
Sisler • SLB 26
Burns • NYG 26
Kauff • NYG 26
9. Magee • NYY 25
10. Cobb • DET 24

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. Robertson • NYG 15.3
2. Kauff • NYG 14.7
3. Pipp • NYY 13.7
4. Carey • PIT 12.6
5. Wheat • BRO 12.2
6. Baker • NYY 12.0
7. Paskert • PHI 11.7
8. Bescher • STL 10.4
9. Saier • CHC 10.4
10. Merkle • 2TM 10.2

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. Crawford • DET 32.2
2. Speaker • CLE 27.3
3. McInnis • PHA 26.9
4. Fischer • 2TM 26.5
5. Jackson • CHW 23.7
6. Foster • WSH 23.3
7. Vitt • DET 21.3
8. Killefer • PHI 20.4
9. Doyle • 2TM 20.0
10. González • STL 18.4

AB per HR

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

1. Williams • CHC 33.8
2. Baker • NYY 36.0
3. Cravath • PHI 40.7
4. Pipp • NYY 45.4
5. Schang • PHA 48.3
6. Robertson • NYG 48.9
7. Stengel • BRO 57.8
8. Smith • STL 59.5
9. Kauff • NYG 61.3
10. Wheat • BRO 63.1

Outs Made

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

1. Weaver • CHW 507
2. Maranville • BSN 501
3. Vitt • DET 494
4. Burns • NYG 484
5. Cutshaw • BRO 479
6. Foster • WSH 476
7. Carey • PIT 474
8. Shotton • SLB 472
9. Pratt • SLB 470
10. Herzog • 2TM 465

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. Speaker • CLE 54.06
2. Chase • CIN 47.44
3. Cobb • DET 46.03
4. Cravath • PHI 43.33
5. Jackson • CHW 40.73
6. Hinchman • PIT 38.71
7. Kauff • NYG 36.10
8. Wheat • BRO 34.58
9. Roth • CLE 32.18
10. Zimmerman • 2TM 32.17

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. Speaker • CLE 6.0
2. Chase • CIN 5.6
3. Hinchman • PIT 4.8
4. Wheat • BRO 4.8
5. Cravath • PHI 4.5
6. Cobb • DET 4.4
7. Kauff • NYG 4.4
8. Hornsby • STL 4.4
9. Zimmerman • 2TM 4.1
10. Felsch • CHW 4.0

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. Cobb • DET 5.0
2. Speaker • CLE 4.5
3. Chase • CIN 3.5
4. Jackson • CHW 3.4
5. Hinchman • PIT 3.4
6. Hornsby • STL 3.3
7. Kauff • NYG 3.1
8. Strunk • PHA 3.1
9. Cravath • PHI 3.0
10. Wheat • BRO 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. Wheat • BRO 19.8
2. Speaker • CLE 17.8
3. Luderus • PHI 14.7
4. Stengel • BRO 14.0
5. Cravath • PHI 13.7
6. Cobb • DET 12.7
7. Felsch • CHW 12.6
8. Hooper • BOS 11.0
9. Myers • BRO 10.6
10. Collins • CHW 8.9

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. Speaker • CLE 5.9
2. Chase • CIN 5.5
3. Cobb • DET 5.1
4. Cravath • PHI 4.9
5. Jackson • CHW 4.6
6. Hinchman • PIT 4.4
7. Kauff • NYG 4.3
8. Wheat • BRO 3.9
9. Hornsby • STL 3.7
10. Zimmerman • 2TM 3.6

rOBA

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

1. Speaker • CLE .478
2. Cobb • DET .477
3. Jackson • CHW .436
4. Collins • CHW .402
5. Chase • CIN .399
6. Wheat • BRO .394
7. Strunk • PHA .394
8. Veach • DET .394
9. Cravath • PHI .392
10. Hornsby • STL .385

Rbat+

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

1. Speaker • CLE 202
2. Cobb • DET 192
3. Jackson • CHW 176
4. Chase • CIN 164
5. Strunk • PHA 161
6. Wheat • BRO 161
7. Hornsby • STL 160
8. Williams • CHC 157
9. Hinchman • PIT 157
10. Cravath • PHI 157

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