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. Mays • SFG 10.6
2. Ellsworth • CHC 9.9
3. Koufax • LAD 9.9
4. Aaron • MLN 9.1
5. Marichal • SFG 8.1
6. Callison • PHI 8.0
7. Mathews • MLN 7.9
8. Groat • STL 7.1
9. Santo • CHC 6.7
10. McCovey • SFG 6.5

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. Mays • SFG 10.6
2. Aaron • MLN 9.1
3. Callison • PHI 8.0
4. Mathews • MLN 7.9
5. Groat • STL 7.1
6. Santo • CHC 6.7
7. McCovey • SFG 6.5
8. Williams • CHC 6.4
9. Pinson • CIN 6.4
10. White • STL 6.0

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. Aaron • MLN 9.5
2. Mays • SFG 9.1
3. Cepeda • SFG 6.7
4. McCovey • SFG 6.3
5. Mathews • MLN 6.2
6. Pinson • CIN 6.1
7. Groat • STL 6.0
8. Callison • PHI 5.8
9. Gilliam • LAD 5.7
10. González • PHI 5.4
Santo • CHC 5.4

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. Mazeroski • PIT 3.3
2. Cárdenas • CIN 2.2
3. Wine • PHI 2.2
4. Groat • STL 2.1
5. Bertell • CHC 2.1
6. Menke • MLN 2.0
7. Mathews • MLN 1.8
8. Flood • STL 1.8
9. Santo • CHC 1.7
10. Dalrymple • PHI 1.7

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. Davis • LAD .326
2. Clemente • PIT .320
3. Groat • STL .319
Aaron • MLN .319
5. Cepeda • SFG .316
6. Mays • SFG .314
7. Pinson • CIN .313
8. González • PHI .306
9. White • STL .304
10. Flood • STL .302

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. Mathews • MLN .399
2. Aaron • MLN .391
3. Mays • SFG .380
4. Robinson • CIN .379
5. Groat • STL .377
6. González • PHI .372
7. Cepeda • SFG .366
8. White • STL .360
9. Davis • LAD .359
10. Boyer • STL .358

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. Aaron • MLN .586
2. Mays • SFG .582
3. McCovey • SFG .566
4. Cepeda • SFG .563
5. Pinson • CIN .514
6. Callison • PHI .502
7. Williams • CHC .497
8. White • STL .491
9. Santo • CHC .481
10. Alou • SFG .474

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. Aaron • MLN .977
2. Mays • SFG .962
3. Cepeda • SFG .929
4. McCovey • SFG .915
5. Pinson • CIN .861
6. Williams • CHC .854
7. Mathews • MLN .852
8. White • STL .851
9. Callison • PHI .840
10. Groat • STL .827

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Santo • CHC 162
Pinson • CIN 162
White • STL 162
4. Williams • CHC 161
Aaron • MLN 161
Javier • STL 161
7. Boyer • STL 159
8. Cárdenas • CIN 158
Mathews • MLN 158
Flood • STL 158
Groat • STL 158

At Bats

At Bats

1. Flood • STL 662
2. White • STL 658
3. Pinson • CIN 652
4. Taylor • PHI 640
5. Aaron • MLN 631
Groat • STL 631
7. Santo • CHC 630
8. Callison • PHI 626
9. Rose • CIN 623
10. Boyer • STL 617

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. White • STL 726
2. Aaron • MLN 714
Flood • STL 714
4. Groat • STL 704
5. Taylor • PHI 700
6. Rose • CIN 696
7. Pinson • CIN 695
8. Boyer • STL 693
9. Callison • PHI 692
10. Santo • CHC 687
Williams • CHC 687

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Aaron • MLN 121
2. Mays • SFG 115
3. Flood • STL 112
4. White • STL 106
5. McCovey • SFG 103
6. Taylor • PHI 102
7. Rose • CIN 101
8. Cepeda • SFG 100
9. Pinson • CIN 96
Callison • PHI 96

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Pinson • CIN 204
2. Aaron • MLN 201
Groat • STL 201
4. Flood • STL 200
White • STL 200
6. Clemente • PIT 192
7. Santo • CHC 187
Mays • SFG 187
9. Cepeda • SFG 183
10. Davis • LAD 181

Total Bases

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

1. Aaron • MLN 370
2. Mays • SFG 347
3. Pinson • CIN 335
4. Cepeda • SFG 326
5. White • STL 323
6. McCovey • SFG 319
7. Callison • PHI 314
8. Williams • CHC 304
9. Santo • CHC 303
10. Groat • STL 284

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Groat • STL 43
2. Pinson • CIN 37
3. Williams • CHC 36
Callison • PHI 36
González • PHI 36
6. Flood • STL 34
7. Cepeda • SFG 33
8. Mays • SFG 32
9. Alou • SFG 31
10. Santo • CHC 29
Aaron • MLN 29

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Pinson • CIN 14
2. González • PHI 12
3. Brock • CHC 11
Callison • PHI 11
Groat • STL 11
6. Taylor • PHI 10
7. Williams • CHC 9
Rose • CIN 9
Alou • SFG 9
Flood • STL 9
Javier • STL 9

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Aaron • MLN 44
McCovey • SFG 44
3. Mays • SFG 38
4. Cepeda • SFG 34
5. Howard • LAD 28
6. White • STL 27
7. Callison • PHI 26
8. Santo • CHC 25
Williams • CHC 25
10. Boyer • STL 24

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Aaron • MLN 130
2. Boyer • STL 111
3. White • STL 109
4. Pinson • CIN 106
5. Mays • SFG 103
6. McCovey • SFG 102
7. Santo • CHC 99
8. Cepeda • SFG 97
9. Williams • CHC 95
10. Robinson • CIN 91

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Mathews • MLN 124
2. Robinson • CIN 81
3. Aaron • MLN 78
4. Boyer • STL 70
5. Schofield • PIT 69
6. Williams • CHC 68
7. Mays • SFG 66
8. Rodgers • CHC 65
9. Gilliam • LAD 60
10. Staub • HOU 59
White • STL 59

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Clendenon • PIT 136
2. Goss • HOU 128
3. Brock • CHC 122
4. Hickman • NYM 120
5. Mathews • MLN 119
McCovey • SFG 119
7. Howard • LAD 116
8. Callison • PHI 111
9. Menke • MLN 106
10. Bateman • HOU 103

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Wills • LAD 40
2. Aaron • MLN 31
3. Pinson • CIN 27
4. Robinson • CIN 26
5. Davis • LAD 25
6. Brock • CHC 24
7. Taylor • PHI 23
8. Clendenon • PIT 22
9. Gilliam • LAD 19
10. Javier • STL 18

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Flood • STL 152
2. Taylor • PHI 145
3. Clemente • PIT 144
4. Davis • LAD 143
5. Groat • STL 141
6. White • STL 139
7. Wills • LAD 137
8. Pinson • CIN 131
9. Rose • CIN 130
10. Santo • CHC 127

Adjusted OPS+

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

1. Aaron • MLN 179
2. Mays • SFG 175
3. Cepeda • SFG 165
4. McCovey • SFG 161
5. Mathews • MLN 147
6. Davis • LAD 142
7. Pinson • CIN 142
8. Callison • PHI 140
9. Williams • CHC 138
10. Clemente • PIT 136

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. Aaron • MLN 149
2. Mays • SFG 131
3. White • STL 117
4. Pinson • CIN 113
Cepeda • SFG 113
6. McCovey • SFG 111
7. Williams • CHC 108
8. Callison • PHI 107
9. Mathews • MLN 106
Groat • STL 106

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. Aaron • MLN 65
2. Mays • SFG 57
3. Cepeda • SFG 47
4. McCovey • SFG 42
5. Mathews • MLN 40
6. Pinson • CIN 33
7. Williams • CHC 31
8. Callison • PHI 31
9. Davis • LAD 29
10. White • STL 28

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. Aaron • MLN 6.8
2. Mays • SFG 6.0
3. Cepeda • SFG 4.9
4. McCovey • SFG 4.4
5. Mathews • MLN 4.2
6. Pinson • CIN 3.5
7. Williams • CHC 3.3
8. Callison • PHI 3.2
9. Davis • LAD 3.1
10. White • STL 3.0

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Aaron • MLN 77
Mays • SFG 77
3. Pinson • CIN 73
Callison • PHI 73
5. Cepeda • SFG 71
6. Williams • CHC 70
7. McCovey • SFG 68
8. White • STL 61
9. Santo • CHC 60
Alou • SFG 60
Groat • STL 60

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. Aaron • MLN 279
2. Mathews • MLN 269
3. Groat • STL 263
4. White • STL 259
5. Mays • SFG 255
6. Boyer • STL 248
7. Williams • CHC 245
8. Flood • STL 244
9. Pinson • CIN 241
10. Santo • CHC 233

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. Aaron • MLN .818
2. Mays • SFG .792
3. Cepeda • SFG .755
4. McCovey • SFG .750
5. Mathews • MLN .734
6. White • STL .720
7. Pinson • CIN .709
8. Williams • CHC .707
9. Robinson • CIN .700
10. Groat • STL .699

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Robinson • CIN 14
2. Hunt • NYM 13
3. McCovey • SFG 11
4. Cepeda • SFG 10
5. Rodgers • CHC 9
Bateman • HOU 9
7. González • PHI 8
8. Jones • MLN 7
Harkness • NYM 7
Taylor • PHI 7

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Bolling • MLN 17
2. Temple • HOU 13
Callison • PHI 13
Hiller • SFG 13
Javier • STL 13
6. Gilliam • LAD 12
7. Fairly • LAD 11
Davenport • SFG 11
9. Friend • PIT 10
Broglio • STL 10

Sacrifice Flies

Sacrifice Flies
First tracked in 1954.

1. Santo • CHC 11
2. Sievers • PHI 9
3. Banks • CHC 8
4. Davis • LAD 7
Roseboro • LAD 7
Menke • MLN 7
Torre • MLN 7
Mays • SFG 7
9. Pinson • CIN 6
Rose • CIN 6
Davis • LAD 6
Gilliam • LAD 6
Hunt • NYM 6
Davenport • SFG 6
Altman • STL 6

Intentional Bases on Balls

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

1. Robinson • CIN 20
2. Aaron • MLN 18
3. Banks • CHC 16
4. Dalrymple • PHI 15
5. Mathews • MLN 14
6. Bailey • SFG 11
Cepeda • SFG 11
8. Demeter • PHI 10
Boyer • STL 10
10. Williams • CHC 9
Snider • NYM 9
Musial • STL 9
White • STL 9

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. Clemente • PIT 24
2. Thomas • NYM 23
3. Runnels • HOU 20
Boyer • STL 20
5. Torre • MLN 19
6. Cepeda • SFG 18
Groat • STL 18
8. Hubbs • CHC 17
Santo • CHC 17
Davis • LAD 17

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Wills • LAD 19
2. Rose • CIN 15
3. Clendenon • PIT 13
4. Brock • CHC 12
Flood • STL 12
6. Davis • LAD 11
7. Robinson • CIN 10
Davis • LAD 10
Javier • STL 10
10. Hubbs • CHC 9
Taylor • PHI 9
Bailey • PIT 9
White • STL 9

SB %

Stolen Base Percentage
SB / (SB + CS)

1. Maye • MLN 87.50
2. Aaron • MLN 86.11
3. Gilliam • LAD 79.17
4. Pinson • CIN 77.14
5. Altman • STL 76.47
6. Robinson • CIN 72.22
7. Taylor • PHI 71.88
8. Davis • LAD 69.44
9. Wills • LAD 67.80
10. Brock • CHC 66.67

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. Aaron • MLN 36.4
2. Pinson • CIN 24.2
3. Robinson • CIN 23.2
4. Clendenon • PIT 17.8
5. Davis • LAD 15.5
6. White • STL 14.6
7. Alou • SFG 14.2
8. Clemente • PIT 14.1
9. Davis • LAD 13.2
10. Mays • SFG 13.2

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. Gilliam • LAD 18.8
2. Flood • STL 11.6
3. Mazeroski • PIT 11.6
4. Bolling • MLN 11.5
5. Wills • LAD 11.0
6. Groat • STL 10.9
7. Hunt • NYM 10.7
8. Virdon • PIT 10.1
9. Davis • LAD 9.4
10. Roseboro • LAD 9.4

AB per HR

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

1. McCovey • SFG 12.8
2. Aaron • MLN 14.3
3. Mays • SFG 15.7
4. Cepeda • SFG 17.0
5. Robinson • CIN 23.0
6. Demeter • PHI 23.4
7. Sievers • PHI 23.7
8. Mathews • MLN 23.8
9. Callison • PHI 24.1
10. White • STL 24.4

Outs Made

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

1. Taylor • PHI 491
2. Rose • CIN 488
3. Flood • STL 487
4. Javier • STL 482
5. White • STL 481
6. Pinson • CIN 478
7. Santo • CHC 475
8. Callison • PHI 473
9. Hubbs • CHC 466
10. Bailey • PIT 465
Boyer • STL 465

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. Aaron • MLN 84.57
2. Mays • SFG 58.12
3. White • STL 54.17
4. McCovey • SFG 53.81
5. Mathews • MLN 49.76
6. Robinson • CIN 48.31
7. Williams • CHC 43.76
8. Pinson • CIN 43.03
9. Cepeda • SFG 42.04
10. Callison • PHI 39.38

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. Aaron • MLN 6.7
2. Mays • SFG 6.5
3. White • STL 6.4
4. Howard • LAD 4.5
5. Mathews • MLN 4.5
6. Pinson • CIN 4.5
7. Williams • CHC 4.4
8. McCovey • SFG 3.9
9. Boyer • STL 3.8
10. Cepeda • SFG 3.8

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. Aaron • MLN 8.0
2. Mays • SFG 7.2
3. McCovey • SFG 6.2
4. White • STL 5.0
5. Mathews • MLN 4.9
6. Cepeda • SFG 4.7
7. Howard • LAD 4.4
8. Williams • CHC 4.3
9. Pinson • CIN 4.1
10. Callison • PHI 3.9

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. White • STL 14.3
2. Howard • LAD 12.9
3. Mays • SFG 11.9
4. Davis • LAD 9.3
5. Fairly • LAD 7.5
6. McCovey • SFG 6.8
7. Davis • LAD 6.8
8. Williams • CHC 6.5
9. Gilliam • LAD 6.2
10. Groat • STL 5.4

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. Aaron • MLN 8.8
2. Mays • SFG 6.1
3. McCovey • SFG 5.7
4. White • STL 5.4
5. Mathews • MLN 5.3
6. Robinson • CIN 5.0
7. Williams • CHC 4.5
8. Pinson • CIN 4.5
9. Cepeda • SFG 4.4
10. Callison • PHI 4.2

rOBA

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

1. Aaron • MLN .451
2. Mays • SFG .440
3. Cepeda • SFG .425
4. McCovey • SFG .413
5. Pinson • CIN .396
6. White • STL .392
7. Mathews • MLN .390
8. Callison • PHI .389
9. Williams • CHC .388
10. Clemente • PIT .388

Rbat+

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

1. Aaron • MLN 196
2. Mays • SFG 192
3. Cepeda • SFG 182
4. McCovey • SFG 173
5. Mathews • MLN 158
6. Callison • PHI 155
7. Davis • LAD 152
8. González • PHI 152
9. Pinson • CIN 152
10. Clemente • PIT 151

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