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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. Feller • CLE 9.8
2. Brown • HG 7.9
3. Passeau • CHC 7.5
4. Newsom • DET 7.3
5. Mize • STL 7.3
6. DiMaggio • NYY 7.1
7. Walters • CIN 6.9
8. Frey • CIN 6.8
Vaughan • PIT 6.8
10. Greenberg • DET 6.7
Rigney • CHW 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. Mize • STL 7.3
2. DiMaggio • NYY 7.1
3. Frey • CIN 6.8
Vaughan • PIT 6.8
5. Greenberg • DET 6.7
6. Williams • BOS 6.6
7. Gordon • NYY 6.0
8. Boudreau • CLE 5.9
9. Keller • NYY 5.6
10. Appling • CHW 5.4

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. Mize • STL 7.6
2. Vaughan • PIT 6.9
3. Greenberg • DET 6.9
4. Williams • BOS 6.7
5. DiMaggio • NYY 6.7
6. Gehringer • DET 5.3
7. Hack • CHC 5.2
8. Appling • CHW 5.2
9. Fletcher • PIT 5.1
10. Ott • NYG 5.1

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. Frey • CIN 3.3
2. Boudreau • CLE 2.5
3. Myers • CIN 2.0
4. Gordon • NYY 2.0
5. Joost • CIN 1.9
6. Miller • BSN 1.8
7. Mattick • CHC 1.7
8. Witek • NYG 1.6
9. Appling • CHW 1.2
10. Mack • CLE 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 .378
2. Irvin • NE .370
3. Mayweather • SNS .368
4. Williams • KCM .368
5. Washington • NBY .367
6. Garms • PIT .355
7. Pearson • NE .353
8. DiMaggio • NYY .352
9. Scales • BEG .352
10. Appling • CHW .348

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. Mayweather • SNS .513
2. Leonard • HG .491
3. Scales • BEG .483
4. Williams • BOS .442
5. Irvin • NE .439
6. Greenberg • DET .433
7. Rosenthal • CHW .432
8. Gehringer • DET .428
9. DiMaggio • NYY .425
10. Cleveland • CBR .424

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. Greenberg • DET .670
2. Leonard • HG .638
3. Mize • STL .636
4. DiMaggio • NYY .626
5. Pearson • NE .603
6. Williams • BOS .594
7. York • DET .583
8. Hoskins • BEG .583
9. Irvin • NE .582
10. Foxx • BOS .581

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. Leonard • HG 1.129
2. Greenberg • DET 1.103
3. DiMaggio • NYY 1.051
4. Scales • BEG 1.039
5. Mize • STL 1.039
6. Williams • BOS 1.036
7. Irvin • NE 1.021
8. Pearson • NE 1.015
9. Mayweather • SNS 1.008
10. Hoskins • BEG .996

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Vaughan • PIT 156
2. Kuhel • CHW 155
McCormick • CIN 155
Boudreau • CLE 155
York • DET 155
Dahlgren • NYY 155
Gordon • NYY 155
Mize • STL 155
9. Kennedy • CHW 154
Siebert • PHA 154
Case • WSH 154

At Bats

At Bats

1. Cramer • BOS 661
2. Case • WSH 656
3. Boudreau • CLE 627
4. McCormick • CIN 618
5. Gordon • NYY 616
6. Kennedy • CHW 606
7. Hack • CHC 603
Kuhel • CHW 603
9. Lewis • WSH 600
10. Doerr • BOS 595
Siebert • PHA 595
Walker • WSH 595

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. Case • WSH 720
2. Cramer • BOS 712
3. Boudreau • CLE 706
4. Kuhel • CHW 703
5. Vaughan • PIT 689
6. Hack • CHC 686
York • DET 686
8. Lewis • WSH 680
9. Gordon • NYY 677
10. McCormick • CIN 676

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Williams • BOS 134
2. Greenberg • DET 129
3. McCosky • DET 123
4. Vaughan • PIT 113
5. Gordon • NYY 112
6. Kuhel • CHW 111
Mize • STL 111
8. Case • WSH 109
9. Gehringer • DET 108
10. Foxx • BOS 106

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Cramer • BOS 200
McCosky • DET 200
Radcliff • SLB 200
4. Appling • CHW 197
5. Wright • CHW 196
6. Greenberg • DET 195
7. Williams • BOS 193
8. Case • WSH 192
9. Hack • CHC 191
McCormick • CIN 191

Total Bases

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

1. Greenberg • DET 384
2. Mize • STL 368
3. York • DET 343
4. Williams • BOS 333
5. DiMaggio • NYY 318
6. Gordon • NYY 315
7. Foxx • BOS 299
8. McCormick • CIN 298
9. Doerr • BOS 296
10. Kuhel • CHW 294

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Greenberg • DET 50
2. Boudreau • CLE 46
York • DET 46
4. McCormick • CIN 44
5. Williams • BOS 43
6. Moses • PHA 41
7. Chapman • CLE 40
Vaughan • PIT 40
9. Gleeson • CHC 39
Trosky • CLE 39
McCosky • DET 39
McQuinn • SLB 39

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. McCosky • DET 19
2. Finney • BOS 15
Keller • NYY 15
Vaughan • PIT 15
5. Williams • BOS 14
Ross • BSN 14
7. Camilli • BRO 13
Appling • CHW 13
Mize • STL 13
Slaughter • STL 13

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Mize • STL 43
2. Greenberg • DET 41
3. Foxx • BOS 36
4. York • DET 33
5. DiMaggio • NYY 31
Johnson • PHA 31
7. Gordon • NYY 30
8. Kuhel • CHW 27
9. Nicholson • CHC 25
Trosky • CLE 25

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Greenberg • DET 150
2. Mize • STL 137
3. York • DET 134
4. DiMaggio • NYY 133
5. McCormick • CIN 127
6. Foxx • BOS 119
7. Van Robays • PIT 116
8. Williams • BOS 113
9. Cronin • BOS 111
10. Doerr • BOS 105

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Fletcher • PIT 119
2. Keller • NYY 106
3. Clift • SLB 104
4. Foxx • BOS 101
Gehringer • DET 101
6. Ott • NYG 100
7. Williams • BOS 96
8. Greenberg • DET 93
9. Camilli • BRO 89
York • DET 89

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Ross • BSN 127
2. Chapman • PHA 96
3. Orengo • STL 90
4. York • DET 88
5. Foxx • BOS 87
6. Camilli • BRO 83
DiMaggio • 2TM 83
8. Mack • CLE 77
Crosetti • NYY 77
10. Greenberg • DET 75

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Case • WSH 35
2. Frey • CIN 22
3. Hack • CHC 21
Walker • WSH 21
5. Gordon • NYY 18
Moore • STL 18
7. Werber • CIN 16
Benjamin • HG 16
9. Reese • BRO 15
Kreevich • CHW 15
Lewis • WSH 15

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Cramer • BOS 160
2. Appling • CHW 157
3. Case • WSH 153
4. Wright • CHW 151
Radcliff • SLB 151
6. Whitehead • NYG 141
7. Hack • CHC 139
8. McCosky • DET 138
9. Lewis • WSH 136
10. Herman • CHC 130

Adjusted OPS+

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

1. Mayweather • SNS 204
2. Leonard • HG 192
3. Mize • STL 177
4. DiMaggio • NYY 173
5. Williams • KCM 172
6. Greenberg • DET 171
7. Scales • BEG 170
8. Robinson • MRS 167
9. Irvin • NE 164
10. Pearson • NE 162

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 166
2. Mize • STL 147
3. Williams • BOS 145
4. York • DET 139
5. DiMaggio • NYY 133
6. Foxx • BOS 121
7. McCosky • DET 116
8. Kuhel • CHW 109
9. Camilli • BRO 107
McCormick • CIN 107

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. Greenberg • DET 64
2. Mize • STL 61
3. Williams • BOS 55
4. DiMaggio • NYY 54
5. York • DET 42
6. Foxx • BOS 41
7. Camilli • BRO 35
8. Fletcher • PIT 34
9. Keller • NYY 33
10. Ott • NYG 32

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. Mize • STL 6.1
2. Greenberg • DET 5.9
3. Williams • BOS 5.1
4. DiMaggio • NYY 5.0
5. York • DET 3.9
6. Foxx • BOS 3.8
7. Camilli • BRO 3.5
8. Fletcher • PIT 3.4
9. Ott • NYG 3.3
10. Nicholson • CHC 3.1

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Greenberg • DET 99
2. Mize • STL 87
3. York • DET 85
4. Williams • BOS 80
5. Gordon • NYY 72
6. Foxx • BOS 70
7. Doerr • BOS 69
8. Trosky • CLE 68
DiMaggio • NYY 68
10. McCormick • CIN 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. Williams • BOS 292
2. Greenberg • DET 289
3. York • DET 279
4. Hack • CHC 269
Vaughan • PIT 269
Mize • STL 269
7. McCosky • DET 268
8. Appling • CHW 267
Fletcher • PIT 267
10. Gehringer • DET 265
Lewis • WSH 265

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. Mayweather • SNS .862
2. Leonard • HG .841
3. Mize • STL .814
4. Greenberg • DET .812
5. Williams • KCM .789
6. DiMaggio • NYY .789
7. Scales • BEG .785
8. Williams • BOS .782
9. Irvin • NE .781
10. Pearson • NE .775

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Crosetti • NYY 10
2. Fletcher • PIT 9
3. Werber • CIN 8
4. Lombardi • CIN 7
Moore • NYG 7
6. Gleeson • CHC 6
Jurges • NYG 6
Ott • NYG 6
9. Miller • BSN 5
McCormick • CIN 5
Bartell • DET 5
Danning • NYG 5
Whitehead • NYG 5
Dahlgren • NYY 5
Mize • STL 5
DiMaggio • 2TM 5
Case • WSH 5

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Kreevich • CHW 21
2. McCormick • CIN 20
Schulte • PHI 20
4. Frey • CIN 17
5. Demaree • NYG 16
Orengo • STL 16
7. Goodman • CIN 15
8. Cramer • BOS 14
9. Cronin • BOS 13
Cooney • BSN 13
Elliott • PIT 13

Intentional Bases on Balls

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

1. Mize • STL 24
2. Trosky • CLE 18
3. DiMaggio • NYY 14
4. Davis • PIT 13
5. Lombardi • CIN 12
6. Foxx • BOS 11
West • BSN 11
8. McCormick • CIN 10
Young • NYG 10
Rizzo • 3TM 10

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. McCormick • CIN 23
Boudreau • CLE 23
3. Dahlgren • NYY 20
Johnson • PHA 20
5. Chapman • CLE 19
Medwick • 2TM 19
7. Foxx • BOS 18
Kreevich • CHW 18
Lombardi • CIN 18
Danning • NYG 18
Bonura • 2TM 18

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Hack • CHC 22
2. Gustine • PIT 16
3. Tabor • BOS 10
Tresh • CHW 10
Moore • NYG 10
Whitehead • NYG 10
Vaughan • PIT 10
Case • WSH 10
Lewis • WSH 10
10. Gleeson • CHC 9
Werber • CIN 9
McCosky • DET 9

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. Gordon • NYY 22.5
2. Moore • STL 17.5
3. Tabor • BOS 16.8
4. Kuhel • CHW 16.6
5. Walker • WSH 16.1
6. DiMaggio • 2TM 13.9
7. Doerr • BOS 13.8
8. Werber • CIN 13.7
9. Camilli • BRO 12.9
10. Johnson • PHA 12.7

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. Garms • PIT 59.7
2. Finney • BOS 41.1
3. Cooney • BSN 40.6
4. Whitehead • NYG 33.4
5. Gehringer • DET 30.3
6. Brown • STL 30.3
7. Radcliff • SLB 29.2
8. Bonura • 2TM 29.0
9. Hassett • BSN 28.6
10. Tebbetts • DET 27.1

AB per HR

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

1. Mize • STL 13.5
2. Greenberg • DET 14.0
3. Foxx • BOS 14.3
4. DiMaggio • NYY 16.4
5. Johnson • PHA 16.5
6. York • DET 17.8
7. DiMaggio • 2TM 18.9
8. Pearson • NE 19.5
9. Nicholson • CHC 19.6
10. Selkirk • NYY 19.9

Outs Made

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

1. Cramer • BOS 493
2. Case • WSH 486
3. Kennedy • CHW 484
4. Kreevich • CHW 474
5. Boudreau • CLE 472
6. Crosetti • NYY 470
7. Gordon • NYY 469
8. Kuhel • CHW 460
9. McCormick • CIN 454
Rolfe • NYY 454

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. DiMaggio • NYY 69.23
2. Mize • STL 66.00
3. Williams • BOS 56.72
4. Foxx • BOS 50.98
5. Camilli • BRO 50.41
6. McCormick • CIN 49.94
7. Greenberg • DET 48.70
8. Vaughan • PIT 45.77
9. Keller • NYY 45.53
10. Fletcher • PIT 44.57

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

1. Camilli • BRO 6.7
2. Mize • STL 6.4
3. Foxx • BOS 5.6
DiMaggio • NYY 5.6
5. Greenberg • DET 4.4
6. Vaughan • PIT 4.4
7. McCormick • CIN 4.3
8. Keller • NYY 3.7
9. York • DET 3.5
10. Williams • BOS 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. Mize • STL 6.2
2. Williams • BOS 4.8
3. DiMaggio • NYY 4.8
4. Greenberg • DET 4.7
5. Keller • NYY 4.6
6. Camilli • BRO 4.2
7. McCormick • CIN 3.9
8. Gordon • NYY 3.7
9. Foxx • BOS 3.6
10. Vaughan • PIT 3.4

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. York • DET 21.6
2. Greenberg • DET 16.8
3. Camilli • BRO 14.5
4. McCormick • CIN 12.1
5. Gehringer • DET 11.2
6. Trosky • CLE 8.9
7. Foxx • BOS 7.9
8. Williams • BOS 6.4
9. Higgins • DET 6.2
10. DiMaggio • NYY 5.7

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. DiMaggio • NYY 6.5
2. Mize • STL 6.4
3. Williams • BOS 5.2
4. McCormick • CIN 5.0
5. Camilli • BRO 4.9
6. Foxx • BOS 4.6
7. Vaughan • PIT 4.6
8. Fletcher • PIT 4.5
9. Greenberg • DET 4.3
10. Keller • NYY 4.3

rOBA

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

1. Leonard • HG .506
2. Mayweather • SNS .490
3. Scales • BEG .478
4. Greenberg • DET .473
5. Irvin • NE .460
6. Williams • BOS .455
7. DiMaggio • NYY .454
8. Mize • STL .453
9. Pearson • NE .451
10. Hoskins • BEG .448

Rbat+

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

1. Mayweather • SNS 200
2. Leonard • HG 190
3. Mize • STL 185
4. DiMaggio • NYY 182
5. Greenberg • DET 180
6. Scales • BEG 174
7. Williams • BOS 173
8. Williams • KCM 168
9. Irvin • NE 164
10. Robinson • MRS 161

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