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. Passeau • CHC 7.5
2. Mize • STL 7.3
3. Walters • CIN 6.9
4. Frey • CIN 6.8
Vaughan • PIT 6.8
6. McCormick • CIN 5.4
7. Ott • NYG 5.3
8. Camilli • BRO 5.3
9. Fletcher • PIT 5.3
10. Hack • CHC 5.3

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. Frey • CIN 6.8
Vaughan • PIT 6.8
4. McCormick • CIN 5.4
5. Ott • NYG 5.3
6. Camilli • BRO 5.3
7. Fletcher • PIT 5.3
8. Hack • CHC 5.3
9. Moore • STL 5.0
10. Werber • CIN 4.8

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. Hack • CHC 5.2
4. Fletcher • PIT 5.1
5. Ott • NYG 5.1
6. Camilli • BRO 5.1
7. Slaughter • STL 4.5
8. Nicholson • CHC 4.5
9. Moore • STL 4.3
10. Gleeson • CHC 4.2

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. Myers • CIN 2.0
3. Joost • CIN 1.9
4. Miller • BSN 1.8
5. Mattick • CHC 1.7
6. Witek • NYG 1.6
7. Werber • CIN 1.2
8. Vaughan • PIT 1.0
9. Jurges • NYG 1.0
Herman • CHC 1.0

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. Garms • PIT .355
2. Lombardi • CIN .319
3. Cooney • BSN .318
4. Hack • CHC .317
5. Mize • STL .314
6. Gleeson • CHC .313
7. McCormick • CIN .309
8. Walker • BRO .308
9. Slaughter • STL .306
10. Rowell • BSN .305

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. Fletcher • PIT .418
2. Ott • NYG .407
3. Mize • STL .404
4. Camilli • BRO .397
5. Garms • PIT .395
6. Hack • CHC .395
7. Vaughan • PIT .393
8. Gleeson • CHC .389
9. Orengo • STL .383
10. Lombardi • CIN .382

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. Mize • STL .636
2. Nicholson • CHC .534
3. Camilli • BRO .529
4. DiMaggio • 2TM .519
5. Slaughter • STL .504
6. Garms • PIT .500
7. Phelps • BRO .492
8. Lombardi • CIN .489
9. McCormick • CIN .482
10. Medwick • 2TM .482

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. Mize • STL 1.039
2. Camilli • BRO .926
3. Nicholson • CHC .899
4. Garms • PIT .895
5. DiMaggio • 2TM .884
6. Slaughter • STL .874
7. Lombardi • CIN .871
8. Ott • NYG .864
9. Gleeson • CHC .859
10. Fletcher • PIT .856

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Vaughan • PIT 156
2. McCormick • CIN 155
Mize • STL 155
4. Miller • BSN 151
Ott • NYG 151
6. Frey • CIN 150
7. Ross • BSN 149
Hack • CHC 149
Young • NYG 149
10. Elliott • PIT 148

At Bats

At Bats

1. McCormick • CIN 618
2. Hack • CHC 603
3. Vaughan • PIT 594
4. Werber • CIN 584
5. Medwick • 2TM 581
6. Mize • STL 579
7. Van Robays • PIT 572
8. Miller • BSN 569
Ross • BSN 569
10. Whitehead • NYG 568

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. Vaughan • PIT 689
2. Hack • CHC 686
3. McCormick • CIN 676
4. Mize • STL 666
5. Frey • CIN 663
Werber • CIN 663
7. Ott • NYG 647
8. Fletcher • PIT 641
9. Ross • BSN 632
Young • NYG 632

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Vaughan • PIT 113
2. Mize • STL 111
3. Werber • CIN 105
4. Frey • CIN 102
5. Hack • CHC 101
6. Slaughter • STL 96
7. Fletcher • PIT 94
8. McCormick • CIN 93
9. Camilli • BRO 92
Moore • STL 92

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Hack • CHC 191
McCormick • CIN 191
3. Mize • STL 182
4. Vaughan • PIT 178
5. Medwick • 2TM 175
6. Walker • BRO 171
7. Herman • CHC 163
Moore • STL 163
9. Werber • CIN 162
10. Elliott • PIT 161

Total Bases

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

1. Mize • STL 368
2. McCormick • CIN 298
3. Medwick • 2TM 280
4. Camilli • BRO 271
5. Vaughan • PIT 269
6. Hack • CHC 265
7. Ross • BSN 262
Nicholson • CHC 262
9. Slaughter • STL 260
10. Moore • STL 255

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. McCormick • CIN 44
2. Vaughan • PIT 40
3. Gleeson • CHC 39
4. Hack • CHC 38
5. Walker • BRO 37
6. Werber • CIN 35
7. Danning • NYG 34
Elliott • PIT 34
9. Miller • BSN 33
Moore • NYG 33
Moore • STL 33

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Vaughan • PIT 15
2. Ross • BSN 14
3. Camilli • BRO 13
Mize • STL 13
Slaughter • STL 13
6. Medwick • 2TM 12
7. Gleeson • CHC 11
Elliott • PIT 11
9. Walker • BRO 8
Rowell • BSN 8
Marty • PHI 8

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Mize • STL 43
2. Nicholson • CHC 25
3. Rizzo • 3TM 24
4. Camilli • BRO 23
5. McCormick • CIN 19
Ott • NYG 19
DiMaggio • 2TM 19
8. Ross • BSN 17
Leiber • CHC 17
Young • NYG 17
Moore • STL 17
Slaughter • STL 17
Medwick • 2TM 17

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Mize • STL 137
2. McCormick • CIN 127
3. Van Robays • PIT 116
4. Fletcher • PIT 104
5. Young • NYG 101
6. Nicholson • CHC 98
7. Camilli • BRO 96
8. Vaughan • PIT 95
9. Danning • NYG 91
10. Ross • BSN 89

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Fletcher • PIT 119
2. Ott • NYG 100
3. Camilli • BRO 89
4. Vaughan • PIT 88
5. Mize • STL 82
6. Frey • CIN 80
7. Hack • CHC 75
8. Lavagetto • BRO 70
9. Young • NYG 69
10. Werber • CIN 68

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Ross • BSN 127
2. Orengo • STL 90
3. Camilli • BRO 83
DiMaggio • 2TM 83
5. Leiber • CHC 68
6. Nicholson • CHC 67
7. Sisti • BSN 64
8. Koy • 2TM 62
9. Coscarart • BRO 59
10. Van Robays • PIT 58

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Frey • CIN 22
2. Hack • CHC 21
3. Moore • STL 18
4. Werber • CIN 16
5. Reese • BRO 15
6. Elliott • PIT 13
Koy • 2TM 13
8. Rowell • BSN 12
Vaughan • PIT 12
10. DiMaggio • 2TM 11

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Whitehead • NYG 141
2. Hack • CHC 139
3. Herman • CHC 130
4. McCormick • CIN 125
5. Walker • BRO 120
May • PHI 120
7. Rowell • BSN 118
8. Vaughan • PIT 116
Medwick • 2TM 116
10. Frey • CIN 113

Adjusted OPS+

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

1. Mize • STL 177
2. Nicholson • CHC 148
3. Garms • PIT 146
4. Camilli • BRO 146
5. DiMaggio • 2TM 142
6. Gleeson • CHC 139
7. Lombardi • CIN 138
8. Fletcher • PIT 137
9. Ott • NYG 137
10. Leiber • CHC 137

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. Mize • STL 147
2. Camilli • BRO 107
McCormick • CIN 107
4. Vaughan • PIT 103
5. Hack • CHC 100
6. Ott • NYG 97
7. Slaughter • STL 96
8. Nicholson • CHC 92
Medwick • 2TM 92
10. Ross • BSN 91
Fletcher • PIT 91
Moore • STL 91

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. Mize • STL 61
2. Camilli • BRO 35
3. Fletcher • PIT 34
4. Ott • NYG 32
5. Nicholson • CHC 31
6. Vaughan • PIT 31
7. Hack • CHC 30
8. Gleeson • CHC 28
9. McCormick • CIN 27
10. Slaughter • STL 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. Mize • STL 6.1
2. Camilli • BRO 3.5
3. Fletcher • PIT 3.4
4. Ott • NYG 3.3
5. Nicholson • CHC 3.1
6. Vaughan • PIT 3.1
7. Hack • CHC 3.1
8. Gleeson • CHC 2.8
9. McCormick • CIN 2.7
10. Slaughter • STL 2.3

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Mize • STL 87
2. McCormick • CIN 66
3. Camilli • BRO 65
4. Vaughan • PIT 62
5. Nicholson • CHC 59
Medwick • 2TM 59
7. Gleeson • CHC 55
Slaughter • STL 55
9. Ross • BSN 54
Moore • STL 54

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. Hack • CHC 269
Vaughan • PIT 269
Mize • STL 269
4. Fletcher • PIT 267
5. Ott • NYG 261
6. McCormick • CIN 248
7. Camilli • BRO 240
8. Werber • CIN 238
9. Frey • CIN 233
10. Young • NYG 230

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. Mize • STL .814
2. Camilli • BRO .741
3. Garms • PIT .733
4. Slaughter • STL .710
5. Nicholson • CHC .702
6. Lombardi • CIN .689
7. DiMaggio • 2TM .683
8. Ott • NYG .679
9. Leiber • CHC .676
10. Vaughan • PIT .671

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Fletcher • PIT 9
2. Werber • CIN 8
3. Moore • NYG 7
Lombardi • CIN 7
5. Jurges • NYG 6
Ott • NYG 6
Gleeson • CHC 6
8. Danning • NYG 5
McCormick • CIN 5
DiMaggio • 2TM 5
Whitehead • NYG 5
Mize • STL 5
Miller • BSN 5

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. McCormick • CIN 20
Schulte • PHI 20
3. Frey • CIN 17
4. Demaree • NYG 16
Orengo • STL 16
6. Goodman • CIN 15
7. Cooney • BSN 13
Elliott • PIT 13
9. Moore • NYG 12
Marion • STL 12

Intentional Bases on Balls

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

1. Mize • STL 24
2. Davis • PIT 13
3. Lombardi • CIN 12
4. West • BSN 11
5. Rizzo • 3TM 10
McCormick • CIN 10
Young • NYG 10
8. Miller • BSN 9
9. Camilli • BRO 8
Phelps • BRO 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. McCormick • CIN 23
2. Medwick • 2TM 19
3. Lombardi • CIN 18
Danning • NYG 18
5. Phelps • BRO 16
Miller • BSN 16
Herman • CHC 16
Whitehead • NYG 16
Van Robays • PIT 16
10. Marty • PHI 15
Davis • PIT 15

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Hack • CHC 22
2. Gustine • PIT 16
3. Moore • NYG 10
Whitehead • NYG 10
Vaughan • PIT 10
6. Gleeson • CHC 9
Werber • CIN 9
8. Reese • BRO 8
Rowell • BSN 8
Handley • PIT 8

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. Moore • STL 17.5
2. DiMaggio • 2TM 13.9
3. Werber • CIN 13.7
4. Camilli • BRO 12.9
5. Mize • STL 12.0
6. Frey • CIN 11.7
7. Hack • CHC 11.6
8. Slaughter • STL 10.9
9. Koy • 2TM 10.6
10. Goodman • CIN 10.3

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. Cooney • BSN 40.6
3. Whitehead • NYG 33.4
4. Brown • STL 30.3
5. Hassett • BSN 28.6
6. Lombardi • CIN 26.9
7. Walker • BRO 26.5
8. Witek • NYG 25.5
9. Hack • CHC 25.1
10. McCormick • CIN 23.8

AB per HR

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

1. Mize • STL 13.5
2. DiMaggio • 2TM 18.9
3. Nicholson • CHC 19.6
4. Rizzo • 3TM 21.0
5. Camilli • BRO 22.3
6. Warren • PHI 24.1
7. Leiber • CHC 25.9
8. Lombardi • CIN 26.9
9. Ott • NYG 28.2
10. Phelps • BRO 28.5

Outs Made

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

1. McCormick • CIN 454
2. Hack • CHC 442
Frey • CIN 442
4. Werber • CIN 441
Whitehead • NYG 441
6. Van Robays • PIT 439
7. Miller • BSN 437
8. Vaughan • PIT 435
9. Medwick • 2TM 431
10. Herman • CHC 429
Mahan • PHI 429

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. Mize • STL 66.00
2. Camilli • BRO 50.41
3. McCormick • CIN 49.94
4. Vaughan • PIT 45.77
5. Fletcher • PIT 44.57
6. Leiber • CHC 37.05
7. Nicholson • CHC 36.94
8. Garms • PIT 36.39
9. Ross • BSN 29.96
10. Ott • NYG 29.45

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. Camilli • BRO 6.7
2. Mize • STL 6.4
3. Vaughan • PIT 4.4
4. McCormick • CIN 4.3
5. Ross • BSN 3.4
6. Danning • NYG 3.1
7. Fletcher • PIT 3.1
8. DiMaggio • 2TM 2.8
9. Moore • STL 2.8
10. Garms • PIT 2.8

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. Camilli • BRO 4.2
3. McCormick • CIN 3.9
4. Vaughan • PIT 3.4
5. Ott • NYG 3.0
6. Fletcher • PIT 2.9
7. Nicholson • CHC 2.8
8. DiMaggio • 2TM 2.7
9. Leiber • CHC 2.4
10. Moore • STL 2.4

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. Camilli • BRO 14.5
2. McCormick • CIN 12.1
3. Danning • NYG 5.2
4. Goodman • CIN 4.5
5. Werber • CIN 4.3
6. Jurges • NYG 4.1
7. Lombardi • CIN 3.5
8. Hershberger • CIN 3.3
9. Ott • NYG 3.2
10. Moore • NYG 3.0

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. Mize • STL 6.4
2. McCormick • CIN 5.0
3. Camilli • BRO 4.9
4. Vaughan • PIT 4.6
5. Fletcher • PIT 4.5
6. Leiber • CHC 3.8
7. Nicholson • CHC 3.8
8. Garms • PIT 3.7
9. Ross • BSN 3.1
10. Ott • NYG 3.0

rOBA

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

1. Mize • STL .453
2. Camilli • BRO .414
3. Garms • PIT .402
4. Slaughter • STL .396
5. Nicholson • CHC .396
6. Fletcher • PIT .394
7. DiMaggio • 2TM .394
8. Ott • NYG .394
9. Lombardi • CIN .391
10. Vaughan • PIT .386

Rbat+

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

1. Mize • STL 185
2. Garms • PIT 160
3. Nicholson • CHC 156
4. Camilli • BRO 154
5. Fletcher • PIT 152
6. Ott • NYG 150
7. Gleeson • CHC 150
8. DiMaggio • 2TM 149
9. Lombardi • CIN 147
10. Vaughan • PIT 146

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