National 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 • CHC 12.7
2. Hornsby • STL 9.7
3. Grimes • BRO 8.4
4. Bancroft • 2TM 7.0
5. Youngs • NYG 6.6
6. Cooper • PIT 6.3
7. Roush • CIN 6.0
8. Williams • PHI 5.9
9. Vaughn • CHC 5.8
10. Adams • PIT 5.4

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. Hornsby • STL 9.7
2. Bancroft • 2TM 7.0
3. Youngs • NYG 6.6
4. Roush • CIN 6.0
5. Williams • PHI 5.9
6. Wheat • BRO 4.7
7. Burns • NYG 4.7
8. Fletcher • 2TM 4.5
9. Myers • BRO 4.1
10. Groh • CIN 4.0

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. Hornsby • STL 9.0
2. Youngs • NYG 6.3
3. Williams • PHI 5.2
4. Roush • CIN 5.1
5. Wheat • BRO 4.6
6. Groh • CIN 4.3
7. Bancroft • 2TM 4.1
8. Stock • STL 4.0
9. Fournier • STL 3.9
10. Myers • BRO 3.7

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. Bancroft • 2TM 4.0
2. Fletcher • 2TM 2.4
3. O'Neil • BSN 1.7
4. Gowdy • BSN 1.5
5. Rath • CIN 1.4
6. Frisch • NYG 1.3
7. Kilduff • BRO 1.3
Terry • CHC 1.3
9. Lavan • STL 1.2
10. Maranville • BSN 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. Hornsby • STL .370
2. Youngs • NYG .351
3. Roush • CIN .339
4. Wheat • BRO .328
5. Williams • PHI .325
6. Stock • STL .319
7. Meusel • PHI .309
8. Konetchy • BRO .308
9. Fournier • STL .306
10. Myers • BRO .304

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. Hornsby • STL .431
2. Youngs • NYG .427
3. Roush • CIN .386
4. Wheat • BRO .385
5. Groh • CIN .375
6. Flack • CHC .373
7. Fournier • STL .370
8. Carey • PIT .369
9. Paskert • CHC .366
10. Burns • NYG .365

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. Hornsby • STL .559
2. Williams • PHI .497
3. Youngs • NYG .477
4. Meusel • PHI .473
5. Wheat • BRO .463
6. Myers • BRO .462
7. Robertson • CHC .462
8. Roush • CIN .453
9. Fournier • STL .438
10. Stengel • PHI .436

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. Hornsby • STL .990
2. Youngs • NYG .904
3. Williams • PHI .861
4. Wheat • BRO .848
5. Roush • CIN .839
6. Meusel • PHI .822
7. Robertson • CHC .815
8. Fournier • STL .808
9. Myers • BRO .807
10. Stengel • PHI .792

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Johnston • BRO 155
Kelly • NYG 155
Stock • STL 155
4. Myers • BRO 154
Duncan • CIN 154
Burns • NYG 154
7. Boeckel • BSN 153
Youngs • NYG 153
9. Neale • CIN 150
Bancroft • 2TM 150

At Bats

At Bats

1. Stock • STL 639
2. Olson • BRO 637
3. Johnston • BRO 635
4. Burns • NYG 631
5. Bancroft • 2TM 613
6. Powell • BSN 609
7. Kelly • NYG 590
Williams • PHI 590
9. Hornsby • STL 589
10. Wheat • BRO 583

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. Burns • NYG 714
2. Johnston • BRO 708
Stock • STL 708
4. Bancroft • 2TM 673
5. Youngs • NYG 672
6. Olson • BRO 666
Powell • BSN 666
8. Hornsby • STL 660
9. Myers • BRO 652
Duncan • CIN 652

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Burns • NYG 115
2. Bancroft • 2TM 102
3. Daubert • CIN 97
4. Hornsby • STL 96
5. Youngs • NYG 92
6. Wheat • BRO 89
7. Williams • PHI 88
8. Johnston • BRO 87
9. Groh • CIN 86
10. Flack • CHC 85
Stock • STL 85

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Hornsby • STL 218
2. Youngs • NYG 204
Stock • STL 204
4. Roush • CIN 196
5. Williams • PHI 192
6. Wheat • BRO 191
7. Johnston • BRO 185
8. Bancroft • 2TM 183
9. Burns • NYG 181
10. Myers • BRO 177

Total Bases

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

1. Hornsby • STL 329
2. Williams • PHI 293
3. Youngs • NYG 277
4. Wheat • BRO 270
5. Myers • BRO 269
6. Roush • CIN 262
7. Burns • NYG 252
8. Meusel • PHI 245
9. Stock • STL 244
10. Bancroft • 2TM 237

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Hornsby • STL 44
2. Myers • BRO 36
Williams • PHI 36
Bancroft • 2TM 36
5. Burns • NYG 35
6. Fournier • STL 33
7. Fletcher • 2TM 32
8. Flack • CHC 30
9. Robertson • CHC 29
10. Boeckel • BSN 28
Daubert • CIN 28
Groh • CIN 28
Stock • STL 28

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Myers • BRO 22
2. Hornsby • STL 20
3. Roush • CIN 16
4. Maranville • BSN 15
Bigbee • PIT 15
6. Youngs • NYG 14
Fournier • STL 14
8. Wheat • BRO 13
Daubert • CIN 13
Southworth • PIT 13

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Williams • PHI 15
2. Meusel • PHI 14
3. Kelly • NYG 11
4. McHenry • STL 10
Robertson • CHC 10
6. Hornsby • STL 9
Wheat • BRO 9
Stengel • PHI 9
9. King • NYG 7
10. Powell • BSN 6
Burns • NYG 6
Youngs • NYG 6
Tragesser • PHI 6

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Kelly • NYG 94
Hornsby • STL 94
3. Roush • CIN 90
4. Duncan • CIN 83
5. Myers • BRO 80
6. Youngs • NYG 78
7. Frisch • NYG 77
8. Stock • STL 76
9. Robertson • CHC 75
10. Whitted • PIT 74

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Burns • NYG 76
2. Youngs • NYG 75
3. Paskert • CHC 64
4. Groh • CIN 60
Hornsby • STL 60
6. Carey • PIT 59
7. Kilduff • BRO 58
8. Flack • CHC 52
Southworth • PIT 52
10. Wheat • BRO 48

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Kelly • NYG 92
2. Powell • BSN 83
3. McHenry • STL 73
4. Paskert • CHC 58
5. Youngs • NYG 55
6. Myers • BRO 54
7. Boeckel • BSN 50
Hornsby • STL 50
9. Neale • CIN 48
Burns • NYG 48

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Carey • PIT 52
2. Roush • CIN 36
3. Frisch • NYG 34
4. Bigbee • PIT 31
5. Neale • CIN 29
6. Fournier • STL 26
7. Southworth • PIT 23
8. Burns • NYG 22
9. Heathcote • STL 21
10. Hollocher • CHC 20

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Stock • STL 170
2. Youngs • NYG 157
3. Johnston • BRO 155
4. Roush • CIN 154
5. Hornsby • STL 145
6. Wheat • BRO 143
7. Duncan • CIN 141
8. Paulette • PHI 139
9. Bancroft • 2TM 138
10. Olson • BRO 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. Hornsby • STL 185
2. Youngs • NYG 159
3. Williams • PHI 143
4. Roush • CIN 141
5. Wheat • BRO 140
6. Fournier • STL 133
7. Robertson • CHC 132
8. Meusel • PHI 132
9. Myers • BRO 127
10. Daubert • CIN 126

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. Hornsby • STL 136
2. Youngs • NYG 114
3. Williams • PHI 103
4. Wheat • BRO 100
5. Roush • CIN 97
6. Myers • BRO 88
Burns • NYG 88
8. Meusel • PHI 84
Stock • STL 84
10. Daubert • CIN 81

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. Hornsby • STL 65
2. Youngs • NYG 48
3. Williams • PHI 31
4. Wheat • BRO 30
5. Roush • CIN 30
6. Fournier • STL 24
7. Nicholson • PIT 20
8. Robertson • CHC 20
9. Meusel • PHI 20
10. Burns • NYG 19

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. Hornsby • STL 6.9
2. Youngs • NYG 5.1
3. Williams • PHI 3.3
4. Wheat • BRO 3.2
5. Roush • CIN 3.2
6. Fournier • STL 2.5
7. Nicholson • PIT 2.1
Robertson • CHC 2.1
9. Meusel • PHI 2.1
10. Burns • NYG 2.0

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Hornsby • STL 73
2. Myers • BRO 62
3. Williams • PHI 61
4. Robertson • CHC 50
Burns • NYG 50
Fournier • STL 50
7. Meusel • PHI 49
8. Wheat • BRO 48
9. Youngs • NYG 47
10. Daubert • CIN 45
Bancroft • 2TM 45
Fletcher • 2TM 45

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. Youngs • NYG 281
Hornsby • STL 281
3. Burns • NYG 259
4. Wheat • BRO 245
Stock • STL 245
6. Roush • CIN 241
7. Groh • CIN 232
8. Johnston • BRO 230
9. Williams • PHI 228
10. Bancroft • 2TM 227

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. Hornsby • STL .836
2. Youngs • NYG .776
3. Wheat • BRO .731
4. Williams • PHI .725
5. Roush • CIN .698
6. Meusel • PHI .691
7. Konetchy • BRO .667
8. Myers • BRO .642
9. Fournier • STL .634
10. Robertson • CHC .634

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Fournier • STL 12
2. Fletcher • 2TM 9
3. Killefer • CHC 8
Herzog • CHC 8
Deal • CHC 8
Neale • CIN 8
Groh • CIN 8
8. Flack • CHC 7
Duncan • CIN 7
10. Bigbee • PIT 6
Stengel • PHI 6
Wheat • BRO 6
Kelly • NYG 6

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Cutshaw • PIT 37
2. Deal • CHC 34
3. Myers • BRO 33
Terry • CHC 33
5. Lavan • STL 31
6. Johnston • BRO 28
Rath • CIN 28
Stock • STL 28
9. Daubert • CIN 27
Duncan • CIN 27

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Southworth • PIT 25
2. Roush • CIN 24
3. Robertson • CHC 23
4. Burns • NYG 22
5. Fournier • STL 20
6. Flack • CHC 19
Groh • CIN 19
8. Powell • BSN 18
Duncan • CIN 18
Youngs • NYG 18

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. Williams • PHI 16.4
2. Meusel • PHI 15.4
3. Robertson • CHC 12.6
4. Hornsby • STL 10.3
5. Burns • NYG 9.4
6. Youngs • NYG 9.0
7. McHenry • STL 8.9
8. Wheat • BRO 8.5
9. Stengel • PHI 7.9
10. Kelly • NYG 7.8

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. Cutshaw • PIT 48.8
2. Paulette • PHI 35.1
3. Flack • CHC 34.7
4. Olson • BRO 33.5
5. Deal • CHC 32.1
6. Clemons • STL 28.2
7. Wingo • CIN 28.0
8. Wheat • BRO 27.8
9. Konetchy • BRO 27.6
10. Johnston • BRO 27.6

AB per HR

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

1. Meusel • PHI 37.0
2. Williams • PHI 39.3
3. Stengel • PHI 49.4
4. Robertson • CHC 50.0
5. McHenry • STL 50.4
6. Kelly • NYG 53.6
7. Wheat • BRO 64.8
8. Hornsby • STL 65.4
9. Youngs • NYG 96.8
10. Paskert • CHC 97.4

Outs Made

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

1. Powell • BSN 499
2. Johnston • BRO 493
3. Olson • BRO 489
4. Stock • STL 480
5. Burns • NYG 477
6. Kelly • NYG 463
7. Bancroft • 2TM 458
8. Myers • BRO 451
Duncan • CIN 451
10. Boeckel • BSN 450

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. Hornsby • STL 67.92
2. Youngs • NYG 51.31
3. Wheat • BRO 50.02
4. Roush • CIN 34.89
5. Williams • PHI 29.68
6. Daubert • CIN 29.29
7. Flack • CHC 26.59
8. Paskert • CHC 26.23
9. Duncan • CIN 25.42
10. Frisch • NYG 23.19

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. Hornsby • STL 6.1
2. Wheat • BRO 5.9
3. Youngs • NYG 4.0
4. Myers • BRO 3.8
5. Williams • PHI 3.5
6. Roush • CIN 3.1
7. Bigbee • PIT 2.8
8. Smith • STL 2.5
9. Flack • CHC 2.4
10. Daubert • CIN 2.4

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. Hornsby • STL 5.9
2. Williams • PHI 4.2
3. Youngs • NYG 4.1
4. Wheat • BRO 3.8
5. Roush • CIN 2.8
6. Burns • NYG 2.5
7. Myers • BRO 2.4
8. Paskert • CHC 2.3
9. Konetchy • BRO 2.0
10. Daubert • CIN 1.9

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 21.5
2. Myers • BRO 12.4
3. Groh • CIN 9.7
4. Roush • CIN 9.1
5. Youngs • NYG 7.2
6. Daubert • CIN 5.5
7. Duncan • CIN 5.4
8. Hornsby • STL 4.4
9. Whitted • PIT 4.0
10. See • CIN 3.2

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. Hornsby • STL 7.2
2. Youngs • NYG 5.4
3. Wheat • BRO 5.2
4. Roush • CIN 3.7
5. Daubert • CIN 3.1
6. Williams • PHI 3.1
7. Flack • CHC 2.8
8. Paskert • CHC 2.8
9. Duncan • CIN 2.7
10. Fournier • STL 2.5

rOBA

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

1. Hornsby • STL .455
2. Youngs • NYG .423
3. Williams • PHI .404
4. Wheat • BRO .398
5. Roush • CIN .396
6. Meusel • PHI .388
7. Fournier • STL .378
8. Konetchy • BRO .373
9. Carey • PIT .371
10. Myers • BRO .370

Rbat+

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

1. Hornsby • STL 196
2. Youngs • NYG 171
3. Williams • PHI 153
4. Roush • CIN 152
5. Wheat • BRO 151
6. Fournier • STL 143
7. Meusel • PHI 141
8. Robertson • CHC 140
9. Daubert • CIN 136
10. Myers • BRO 135

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