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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. Ferrell • BOS 10.6
2. Vaughan • PIT 9.7
3. Grove • BOS 8.8
4. Gehringer • DET 8.5
5. Gehrig • NYY 8.3
6. Foxx • PHA 7.9
7. Dean • STL 7.5
8. Greenberg • DET 7.4
9. Ott • NYG 7.2
10. Herman • CHC 7.2

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. Vaughan • PIT 9.7
2. Gehringer • DET 8.5
3. Gehrig • NYY 8.3
4. Foxx • PHA 7.9
5. Greenberg • DET 7.4
6. Ott • NYG 7.2
7. Herman • CHC 7.2
8. Appling • CHW 6.9
9. Myer • WSH 6.5
10. Medwick • STL 6.1

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. Vaughan • PIT 10.0
2. Gehrig • NYY 7.6
3. Foxx • PHA 7.5
4. Gehringer • DET 7.3
5. Myer • WSH 7.1
6. Greenberg • DET 7.1
7. Ott • NYG 6.3
8. Herman • CHC 5.6
9. Medwick • STL 5.5
10. Berger • BSN 5.5

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. Jurges • CHC 3.0
2. Rogell • DET 2.7
3. Appling • CHW 2.5
4. Herman • CHC 2.1
5. Gehringer • DET 1.8
6. Knickerbocker • CLE 1.6
7. Durocher • STL 1.6
8. Ferrell • BOS 1.5
9. Bartell • NYG 1.5
10. Koenig • NYG 1.2

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. Leonard • HG .409
2. Vaughan • PIT .385
3. Patterson • PC .376
4. Stearnes • CAG .374
5. Gibson • PC .369
6. Wells • CAG .364
7. Oms • NYC .363
8. Wright • CEG .363
9. Page • PS .359
10. Carlisle • HG .357

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. Vaughan • PIT .491
2. Leonard • HG .471
3. Gehrig • NYY .466
4. Foxx • PHA .461
5. Stearnes • CAG .460
6. Wright • CEG .456
7. Cochrane • DET .452
8. Wells • CAG .446
9. Page • PS .444
10. Gibson • PC .443

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. Gibson • PC .654
2. Foxx • PHA .636
3. Greenberg • DET .628
4. Leonard • HG .626
5. Wilson • PS .612
6. Vaughan • PIT .607
7. Stearnes • CAG .599
8. Gehrig • NYY .583
9. Wells • CAG .579
10. Wright • CEG .578

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. Vaughan • PIT 1.098
2. Gibson • PC 1.097
3. Leonard • HG 1.097
4. Foxx • PHA 1.096
5. Stearnes • CAG 1.059
6. Gehrig • NYY 1.049
7. Greenberg • DET 1.039
8. Wright • CEG 1.033
9. Wells • CAG 1.026
10. Wilson • PS 1.016

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Allen • PHI 156
Camilli • PHI 156
3. Moore • NYG 155
4. Galan • CHC 154
Herman • CHC 154
Trosky • CLE 154
Leiber • NYG 154
Medwick • STL 154
9. Appling • CHW 153
Moore • PHI 153
Suhr • PIT 153

At Bats

At Bats

1. Moore • NYG 681
2. Herman • CHC 666
3. Galan • CHC 646
4. Allen • PHI 645
5. Cramer • PHA 644
6. Rolfe • NYY 639
7. Medwick • STL 634
8. Kuhel • WSH 633
9. Trosky • CLE 632
10. Solters • 2TM 631

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. Galan • CHC 748
2. Moore • NYG 744
3. Herman • CHC 735
4. Kuhel • WSH 723
5. Myer • WSH 720
6. Greenberg • DET 710
7. Gehringer • DET 709
8. Rolfe • NYY 706
9. Cramer • PHA 701
10. Allen • PHI 700

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Galan • CHC 133
2. Medwick • STL 132
3. Gehrig • NYY 125
4. Gehringer • DET 123
5. Martin • STL 121
6. Greenberg • DET 120
7. Chapman • NYY 118
Foxx • PHA 118
9. Fox • DET 116
10. Myer • WSH 115

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Herman • CHC 227
2. Medwick • STL 224
3. Vosmik • CLE 216
4. Myer • WSH 215
5. Cramer • PHA 214
6. Galan • CHC 203
Greenberg • DET 203
Leiber • NYG 203
Terry • NYG 203
Jensen • PIT 203

Total Bases

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

1. Greenberg • DET 389
2. Medwick • STL 365
3. Foxx • PHA 340
4. Vosmik • CLE 333
5. Ott • NYG 329
6. Berger • BSN 323
7. Herman • CHC 317
8. Leiber • NYG 314
Solters • 2TM 314
10. Gehrig • NYY 312

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Herman • CHC 57
2. Vosmik • CLE 47
3. Greenberg • DET 46
Allen • PHI 46
Medwick • STL 46
6. Solters • 2TM 45
7. Galan • CHC 41
Martin • STL 41
9. Berger • BSN 39
10. Fox • DET 38
Chapman • NYY 38

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Vosmik • CLE 20
2. Goodman • CIN 18
Stone • WSH 18
4. Greenberg • DET 16
5. Cronin • BOS 14
Waner • PIT 14
7. Averill • CLE 13
Medwick • STL 13
9. Cavarretta • CHC 12
White • DET 12
Carlisle • HG 12
Jackson • NYG 12
Selkirk • NYY 12
Suhr • PIT 12
Waner • PIT 12

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Greenberg • DET 36
Foxx • PHA 36
3. Berger • BSN 34
4. Ott • NYG 31
5. Gehrig • NYY 30
6. Johnson • PHA 28
7. Trosky • CLE 26
8. Camilli • PHI 25
9. Higgins • PHA 23
Collins • STL 23
Medwick • STL 23

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Greenberg • DET 168
2. Berger • BSN 130
3. Medwick • STL 126
4. Collins • STL 122
5. Gehrig • NYY 120
6. Foxx • PHA 115
7. Ott • NYG 114
8. Trosky • CLE 113
9. Solters • 2TM 112
10. Goslin • DET 111

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Gehrig • NYY 132
2. Appling • CHW 122
3. Foxx • PHA 114
4. Vaughan • PIT 97
5. Cochrane • DET 96
Myer • WSH 96
7. Galan • CHC 87
Greenberg • DET 87
9. Clift • SLB 83
10. Ott • NYG 82

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Camilli • PHI 113
2. Foxx • PHA 99
3. Berger • CLE 97
4. Greenberg • DET 91
5. Kampouris • CIN 84
6. Myers • CIN 81
7. Berger • BSN 80
8. Watkins • PHI 78
9. Johnson • PHA 76
10. Lazzeri • NYY 75

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Werber • BOS 29
2. Lary • 2TM 28
3. Galan • CHC 22
4. Almada • BOS 20
Martin • STL 20
6. White • DET 19
7. Bordagaray • BRO 18
8. Chapman • NYY 17
9. Hale • CLE 15
Powell • WSH 15

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Cramer • PHA 170
2. Myer • WSH 163
3. Jensen • PIT 160
4. Herman • CHC 157
Terry • NYG 157
6. Moore • NYG 149
7. Rolfe • NYY 145
8. Allen • PHI 143
9. Gehringer • DET 142
Medwick • STL 142

Adjusted OPS+

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

1. Vaughan • PIT 190
2. Foxx • PHA 182
3. Leonard • HG 177
4. Gibson • PC 176
5. Gehrig • NYY 175
6. Greenberg • DET 170
7. Stearnes • CAG 167
8. Wright • CEG 161
9. Wells • CAG 159
10. Ott • NYG 157

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. Greenberg • DET 159
2. Foxx • PHA 156
3. Vaughan • PIT 144
4. Gehrig • NYY 143
5. Medwick • STL 139
6. Vosmik • CLE 135
7. Ott • NYG 132
8. Gehringer • DET 125
Myer • WSH 125
10. Herman • CHC 119

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. Vaughan • PIT 72
2. Foxx • PHA 70
3. Gehrig • NYY 67
4. Greenberg • DET 62
5. Ott • NYG 50
6. Medwick • STL 43
7. Myer • WSH 40
8. Berger • BSN 38
9. Vosmik • CLE 37
10. Gehringer • DET 36

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. Vaughan • PIT 6.8
2. Foxx • PHA 6.4
3. Gehrig • NYY 6.2
4. Greenberg • DET 5.7
5. Ott • NYG 4.8
6. Medwick • STL 4.2
7. Myer • WSH 3.7
8. Berger • BSN 3.7
9. Leiber • NYG 3.5
10. Vosmik • CLE 3.4

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Greenberg • DET 98
2. Medwick • STL 82
3. Berger • BSN 77
Vosmik • CLE 77
5. Foxx • PHA 76
6. Herman • CHC 70
Ott • NYG 70
Solters • 2TM 70
9. Collins • STL 69
10. Averill • CLE 66
Trosky • CLE 66
Gehrig • NYY 66

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. Myer • WSH 315
2. Gehrig • NYY 313
3. Foxx • PHA 299
4. Vaughan • PIT 296
5. Galan • CHC 294
6. Greenberg • DET 290
7. Appling • CHW 283
Gehringer • DET 283
9. Vosmik • CLE 279
10. Ott • NYG 276

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. Vaughan • PIT .848
2. Foxx • PHA .827
3. Leonard • HG .826
4. Gibson • PC .812
5. Gehrig • NYY .793
6. Stearnes • CAG .787
7. Greenberg • DET .781
8. Wright • CEG .773
9. Wells • CAG .770
10. Medwick • STL .759

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Leiber • NYG 10
2. Travis • WSH 9
3. Moore • NYG 8
4. Vaughan • PIT 7
Cuyler • 2TM 7
6. Bordagaray • BRO 6
Fox • DET 6
Bartell • NYG 6
Dickey • NYY 6
Clift • SLB 6

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Herman • CHC 24
2. Bartell • NYG 21
3. Burns • SLB 20
Rothrock • STL 20
5. Jurges • CHC 18
6. Gehringer • DET 17
Warstler • PHA 17
8. Hayes • CHW 16
Owen • DET 16
Terry • NYG 16

Intentional Bases on Balls

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

1. Gehrig • NYY 21
2. Greenberg • DET 16
3. Lopez • BRO 15
4. Foxx • PHA 13
5. Ott • NYG 12
6. Suhr • PIT 9
7. Cuccinello • BRO 8
Appling • CHW 8
Lombardi • CIN 8
Crosetti • NYY 8

Double Plays Grounded Into

<strong>Double Plays Grounded Into</strong><br>Only includes standard 6-4-3, 4-3, etc. double plays.<br>First tracked in 1933.<br>For gamelogs only in seasons we have play-by-play, we include triple plays as well.<br>All official seasonal totals do not include GITP's.

1. Leiber • NYG 20
2. Herman • CHC 17
3. Urbanski • BSN 16
Jurges • CHC 16
Mancuso • NYG 16
Durocher • STL 16
7. Jensen • PIT 15
Waner • PIT 15
Medwick • STL 15
10. Berger • BSN 14

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Galan • CHC 15
2. Hale • CLE 13
Rothrock • STL 13
4. Johnson • BOS 12
Goodman • CIN 12
Kampouris • CIN 12
Knickerbocker • CLE 12
8. Myers • CIN 11
Allen • PHI 11
10. White • DET 10
Chapman • NYY 10
Watkins • PHI 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. Werber • BOS 18.9
2. Galan • CHC 15.5
3. Hale • CLE 15.5
4. Fox • DET 14.5
5. Gehringer • DET 13.9
6. Solters • 2TM 13.7
7. Camilli • PHI 13.2
8. Goodman • CIN 12.9
9. Gehrig • NYY 12.6
10. Martin • STL 12.4

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. Lombardi • CIN 55.3
2. Waner • PIT 53.7
3. Jensen • PIT 44.8
4. Dickey • NYY 40.7
5. Gehringer • DET 38.1
6. Ferrell • BOS 30.5
7. Radcliff • CHW 29.7
8. Bolton • WSH 28.8
9. Moore • NYG 28.4
10. Manush • WSH 28.2

AB per HR

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

1. Foxx • PHA 14.9
2. Suttles • CAG 15.4
3. Greenberg • DET 17.2
4. Berger • BSN 17.3
5. Gehrig • NYY 17.8
6. Gibson • PC 17.9
7. Ott • NYG 19.1
8. Wilson • PS 20.6
9. Klein • CHC 20.7
10. Johnson • PHA 20.8

Outs Made

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

1. Moore • NYG 494
2. Herman • CHC 485
3. Kuhel • WSH 480
4. Allen • PHI 474
5. Galan • CHC 469
6. Watkins • PHI 467
7. Trosky • CLE 464
8. Camilli • PHI 461
9. Jensen • PIT 459
10. Rolfe • NYY 457

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. Foxx • PHA 73.68
2. Gehrig • NYY 72.16
3. Medwick • STL 69.55
4. Greenberg • DET 64.46
5. Vaughan • PIT 61.03
6. Ott • NYG 56.45
7. Collins • STL 50.76
8. Galan • CHC 47.33
9. Vosmik • CLE 46.22
10. Myer • WSH 41.68

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. Medwick • STL 7.5
2. Gehrig • NYY 6.5
3. Ott • NYG 5.5
4. Vosmik • CLE 5.0
5. Collins • STL 4.8
6. Foxx • PHA 4.7
7. Vaughan • PIT 4.7
8. Galan • CHC 4.5
9. Greenberg • DET 4.4
10. Fox • DET 3.4

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. Medwick • STL 6.0
2. Gehrig • NYY 5.9
3. Ott • NYG 5.7
4. Greenberg • DET 5.5
5. Foxx • PHA 5.5
6. Vaughan • PIT 5.3
7. Vosmik • CLE 3.9
8. Galan • CHC 3.9
9. Gehringer • DET 3.5
10. Collins • STL 3.4

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. Medwick • STL 18.8
2. Ott • NYG 18.4
3. Gehrig • NYY 14.9
4. Collins • STL 11.8
5. Galan • CHC 10.9
6. Moore • NYG 9.8
7. Herman • CHC 9.7
8. Greenberg • DET 9.7
9. Davis • STL 9.1
10. Cochrane • DET 8.4

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. Foxx • PHA 6.8
2. Gehrig • NYY 6.8
3. Medwick • STL 6.5
4. Greenberg • DET 6.1
5. Vaughan • PIT 5.8
6. Ott • NYG 5.5
7. Collins • STL 4.8
8. Galan • CHC 4.6
9. Vosmik • CLE 4.2
10. Myer • WSH 3.9

rOBA

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

1. Vaughan • PIT .485
2. Leonard • HG .485
3. Gibson • PC .480
4. Foxx • PHA .477
5. Stearnes • CAG .471
6. Wright • CEG .462
7. Wells • CAG .462
8. Gehrig • NYY .462
9. Greenberg • DET .449
10. Wilson • PS .440

Rbat+

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

1. Vaughan • PIT 204
2. Foxx • PHA 186
3. Gehrig • NYY 183
4. Leonard • HG 180
5. Gibson • PC 173
6. Greenberg • DET 171
7. Stearnes • CAG 170
8. Ott • NYG 165
9. Wright • CEG 165
10. Wells • CAG 162

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