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. Hornsby • STL 10.1
2. Donohue • CIN 7.0
3. Cuyler • PIT 6.8
4. Luque • CIN 6.8
5. Rixey • CIN 6.3
6. Scott • NYG 6.0
7. Vance • BRO 5.8
8. Sherdel • STL 5.7
9. Bottomley • STL 5.5
Fournier • BRO 5.5

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 10.1
2. Cuyler • PIT 6.8
3. Bottomley • STL 5.5
Fournier • BRO 5.5
5. Bancroft • BSN 5.2
6. Wheat • BRO 5.0
7. Blades • STL 4.5
8. Carey • PIT 4.4
9. Wright • PIT 4.3
10. Frisch • NYG 4.2

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 10.2
2. Cuyler • PIT 6.5
3. Fournier • BRO 6.2
4. Bottomley • STL 5.6
5. Wheat • BRO 5.2
6. Carey • PIT 4.5
7. Bancroft • BSN 4.4
8. Blades • STL 3.8
9. Frisch • NYG 3.7
10. Burrus • BSN 3.6

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. Critz • CIN 2.5
2. Adams • CHC 2.3
Wright • PIT 2.3
4. Caveney • CIN 1.7
5. Bancroft • BSN 1.6
6. Pinelli • CIN 1.6
7. Hartnett • CHC 1.2
8. Frisch • NYG 1.1
9. González • 2TM 0.9
10. Maranville • CHC 0.9

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 .403
2. Bottomley • STL .367
3. Wheat • BRO .359
4. Cuyler • PIT .357
5. Fournier • BRO .350
6. Harper • PHI .349
7. Carey • PIT .343
8. Blades • STL .342
9. Burrus • BSN .340
10. Roush • CIN .339

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 .489
2. Fournier • BRO .446
3. Williams • PHI .435
4. Blades • STL .423
5. Cuyler • PIT .423
6. Carey • PIT .418
7. Bottomley • STL .413
8. Grantham • PIT .413
9. Wheat • BRO .403
10. Bancroft • BSN .400

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 .756
2. Cuyler • PIT .598
3. Bottomley • STL .578
4. Fournier • BRO .569
5. Harper • PHI .558
6. Hartnett • CHC .555
7. Meusel • NYG .548
8. Wheat • BRO .541
9. Blades • STL .535
10. Williams • PHI .522

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 1.245
2. Cuyler • PIT 1.021
3. Fournier • BRO 1.015
4. Bottomley • STL .992
5. Blades • STL .958
6. Williams • PHI .958
7. Harper • PHI .949
8. Wheat • BRO .944
9. Meusel • NYG .912
10. Carey • PIT .909

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Brown • BRO 153
Cuyler • PIT 153
Wright • PIT 153
Bell • STL 153
Bottomley • STL 153
6. Burrus • BSN 152
7. Wheat • BRO 150
Traynor • PIT 150
9. Adams • CHC 149
10. Sand • PHI 148

At Bats

At Bats

1. Adams • CHC 627
2. Bottomley • STL 619
3. Brown • BRO 618
4. Cuyler • PIT 617
5. Wheat • BRO 616
6. Stock • BRO 615
7. Wright • PIT 614
8. Traynor • PIT 591
9. Burrus • BSN 588
10. Kelly • NYG 586
Bell • STL 586

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. Cuyler • PIT 701
2. Adams • CHC 687
3. Bottomley • STL 682
4. Wheat • BRO 671
5. Brown • BRO 666
6. Stock • BRO 662
7. Wright • PIT 660
8. Traynor • PIT 658
9. Burrus • BSN 652
10. Fournier • BRO 649

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Cuyler • PIT 144
2. Hornsby • STL 133
3. Wheat • BRO 125
4. Traynor • PIT 114
5. Blades • STL 112
6. Carey • PIT 109
7. Moore • PIT 106
8. Fournier • BRO 99
9. Stock • BRO 98
10. Wright • PIT 97

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Bottomley • STL 227
2. Wheat • BRO 221
3. Cuyler • PIT 220
4. Hornsby • STL 203
5. Stock • BRO 202
6. Burrus • BSN 200
7. Fournier • BRO 191
8. Brown • BRO 189
Traynor • PIT 189
Wright • PIT 189

Total Bases

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

1. Hornsby • STL 381
2. Cuyler • PIT 369
3. Bottomley • STL 358
4. Wheat • BRO 333
5. Fournier • BRO 310
6. Wright • PIT 295
7. Meusel • NYG 283
8. Kelly • NYG 276
Harper • PHI 276
10. Traynor • PIT 274

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Bottomley • STL 44
2. Cuyler • PIT 43
3. Wheat • BRO 42
4. Burrus • BSN 41
Hornsby • STL 41
6. Brown • BRO 39
Carey • PIT 39
Traynor • PIT 39
9. Blades • STL 37
10. Meusel • NYG 35
Harper • PHI 35

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Cuyler • PIT 26
2. Fournier • BRO 16
Roush • CIN 16
Walker • CIN 16
5. Wheat • BRO 14
Traynor • PIT 14
7. Carey • PIT 13
8. Lindstrom • NYG 12
Bottomley • STL 12
10. Brown • BRO 11
Barnhart • PIT 11

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Hornsby • STL 39
2. Hartnett • CHC 24
3. Fournier • BRO 22
4. Meusel • NYG 21
Bottomley • STL 21
6. Kelly • NYG 20
7. Harper • PHI 18
Cuyler • PIT 18
Wright • PIT 18
10. Wheat • BRO 14
Brooks • CHC 14
Wrightstone • PHI 14

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Hornsby • STL 143
2. Fournier • BRO 130
3. Bottomley • STL 128
4. Wright • PIT 121
5. Barnhart • PIT 114
6. Meusel • NYG 111
7. Traynor • PIT 106
8. Wheat • BRO 103
9. Cuyler • PIT 102
10. Brown • BRO 99
Kelly • NYG 99

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Fournier • BRO 86
2. Hornsby • STL 83
3. Moore • PIT 73
4. Youngs • NYG 66
Carey • PIT 66
6. Bancroft • BSN 64
Sand • PHI 64
8. Barnhart • PIT 59
Blades • STL 59
10. Cuyler • PIT 58

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Hartnett • CHC 77
2. Sand • PHI 65
3. Friberg • 2TM 57
4. Cuyler • PIT 56
5. Kelly • NYG 54
6. Terry • NYG 52
7. Youngs • NYG 51
8. Snyder • NYG 49
9. Bell • STL 47
Blades • STL 47

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Carey • PIT 46
2. Cuyler • PIT 41
3. Adams • CHC 26
4. Roush • CIN 22
5. Frisch • NYG 21
6. Smith • STL 20
7. Moore • PIT 19
8. Youngs • NYG 17
9. Heathcote • CHC 15
Traynor • PIT 15

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Stock • BRO 164
2. Wheat • BRO 151
3. Burrus • BSN 150
Bottomley • STL 150
5. Adams • CHC 141
6. Brown • BRO 134
7. Cuyler • PIT 133
8. Fournier • BRO 132
9. Roush • CIN 131
10. Traynor • PIT 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. Hornsby • STL 210
2. Fournier • BRO 160
3. Cuyler • PIT 152
4. Bottomley • STL 148
5. Wheat • BRO 142
6. Blades • STL 141
7. Williams • PHI 136
8. Meusel • NYG 133
9. Harper • PHI 132
10. Carey • PIT 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 185
2. Cuyler • PIT 154
3. Bottomley • STL 146
4. Fournier • BRO 134
Wheat • BRO 134
6. Carey • PIT 115
7. Harper • PHI 104
8. Burrus • BSN 102
Traynor • PIT 102
10. Meusel • NYG 101

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 88
2. Fournier • BRO 53
3. Cuyler • PIT 48
4. Bottomley • STL 44
5. Wheat • BRO 38
6. Blades • STL 31
7. Burrus • BSN 25
8. Carey • PIT 24
9. Meusel • NYG 24
10. Harper • PHI 23

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 7.9
2. Fournier • BRO 4.9
3. Cuyler • PIT 4.4
4. Bottomley • STL 4.1
5. Wheat • BRO 3.5
6. Blades • STL 2.9
7. Burrus • BSN 2.3
8. Carey • PIT 2.2
9. Meusel • NYG 2.2
10. Harper • PHI 2.1

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Hornsby • STL 90
2. Cuyler • PIT 87
3. Bottomley • STL 77
4. Wheat • BRO 70
5. Meusel • NYG 64
6. Harper • PHI 60
Wright • PIT 60
8. Fournier • BRO 59
Traynor • PIT 59
10. Carey • PIT 57
Blades • STL 57

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. Cuyler • PIT 291
2. Hornsby • STL 288
3. Fournier • BRO 285
4. Bottomley • STL 276
5. Wheat • BRO 267
6. Carey • PIT 256
7. Burrus • BSN 254
8. Traynor • PIT 243
9. Stock • BRO 240
10. Moore • PIT 238

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 .883
2. Cuyler • PIT .765
3. Fournier • BRO .763
4. Bottomley • STL .758
5. Wheat • BRO .733
6. Blades • STL .714
7. Carey • PIT .703
8. Harper • PHI .699
9. Williams • PHI .697
10. Grantham • PIT .679

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Cuyler • PIT 13
2. Fournier • BRO 8
Henline • PHI 8
Welsh • BSN 8
5. Heathcote • CHC 7
Adams • CHC 7
7. Zitzmann • CIN 6
Harper • PHI 6
Blades • STL 6
10. Williams • PHI 5
Felix • BSN 5

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Pinelli • CIN 34
2. Brown • BRO 24
3. Critz • CIN 21
4. Barnhart • PIT 19
Moore • PIT 19
6. Bancroft • BSN 17
7. Hornsby • STL 16
Freigau • 2TM 16
9. Caveney • CIN 15
Fonseca • PHI 15
Wright • PIT 15
Holke • 2TM 15

Intentional Bases on Balls

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

1. Snyder • NYG 9
Taylor • BRO 9
3. Hornsby • STL 8
Smith • PIT 8
5. Hartley • NYG 6
Bottomley • STL 6
Hargrave • CIN 6
Gooch • PIT 6
9. Fournier • BRO 4
Terry • NYG 4
Wright • PIT 4
Hartnett • CHC 4

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Roush • CIN 20
2. Pinelli • CIN 19
3. Critz • CIN 13
Southworth • NYG 13
Cuyler • PIT 13
6. Adams • CHC 12
Frisch • NYG 12
8. Heathcote • CHC 11
Walker • CIN 11
Zitzmann • CIN 11
Youngs • NYG 11
Carey • PIT 11

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. Cuyler • PIT 25.0
2. Frisch • NYG 14.4
3. Harper • PHI 12.9
4. Roush • CIN 11.7
5. Brooks • CHC 11.7
6. Grantham • PIT 10.2
7. Moore • PIT 9.1
8. Carey • PIT 9.0
9. Freigau • 2TM 8.9
10. Youngs • NYG 8.9

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. High • 2TM 47.7
2. Southworth • NYG 43.0
3. Adams • CHC 41.8
4. Roush • CIN 38.6
5. Frisch • NYG 35.9
6. Brown • BRO 34.3
7. Critz • CIN 31.8
8. Traynor • PIT 31.1
9. Johnston • BRO 28.7
10. Carey • PIT 28.5

AB per HR

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

1. Hornsby • STL 12.9
2. Hartnett • CHC 16.6
3. Williams • PHI 24.2
4. Meusel • NYG 24.6
5. Fournier • BRO 24.8
6. Harper • PHI 27.5
7. Kelly • NYG 29.3
8. Bottomley • STL 29.5
9. Snyder • NYG 29.5
10. Wright • PIT 34.1

Outs Made

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

1. Adams • CHC 468
2. Brown • BRO 457
3. Wright • PIT 447
4. Bell • STL 434
5. Critz • CIN 425
6. Traynor • PIT 424
7. Stock • BRO 423
8. Cuyler • PIT 422
9. Kelly • NYG 417
10. Moore • PIT 410

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 89.94
2. Fournier • BRO 77.48
3. Cuyler • PIT 58.73
4. Wheat • BRO 45.19
5. Blades • STL 36.27
6. Bottomley • STL 34.98
7. Harper • PHI 32.95
8. Grantham • PIT 32.18
9. Roush • CIN 30.36
10. Meusel • NYG 29.02

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. Fournier • BRO 6.9
2. Hornsby • STL 6.3
3. Cuyler • PIT 5.0
4. Meusel • NYG 4.6
5. Bottomley • STL 4.5
6. Wheat • BRO 3.3
7. Roush • CIN 2.8
8. Stock • BRO 2.6
9. Harper • PHI 2.5
10. Blades • STL 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 6.9
2. Fournier • BRO 5.8
3. Cuyler • PIT 4.5
4. Blades • STL 3.5
5. Wheat • BRO 3.1
6. Bottomley • STL 3.0
7. Meusel • NYG 2.7
8. Grantham • PIT 2.3
9. Roush • CIN 2.2
10. Carey • PIT 2.1

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. Cuyler • PIT 11.6
2. Meusel • NYG 10.2
3. Fournier • BRO 7.2
4. Kelly • NYG 7.1
5. Wright • PIT 6.6
6. Terry • NYG 5.3
7. Stock • BRO 4.3
8. Wheat • BRO 4.3
9. Roush • CIN 3.8
10. Barnhart • PIT 3.6

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 8.1
2. Fournier • BRO 7.2
3. Cuyler • PIT 5.2
4. Wheat • BRO 4.2
5. Blades • STL 3.3
6. Bottomley • STL 3.2
7. Harper • PHI 2.9
8. Grantham • PIT 2.9
9. Roush • CIN 2.8
10. Meusel • NYG 2.7

rOBA

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

1. Hornsby • STL .534
2. Cuyler • PIT .457
3. Fournier • BRO .449
4. Bottomley • STL .438
5. Carey • PIT .426
6. Wheat • BRO .424
7. Blades • STL .423
8. Williams • PHI .422
9. Harper • PHI .420
10. Grantham • PIT .412

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 224
2. Fournier • BRO 173
3. Cuyler • PIT 162
4. Bottomley • STL 159
5. Wheat • BRO 153
6. Blades • STL 151
7. Williams • PHI 148
8. Harper • PHI 142
9. Meusel • NYG 142
10. Carey • PIT 138

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