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. Gibson • STL 11.9
2. Clemente • PIT 8.1
3. Seaver • NYM 7.0
4. McCovey • SFG 7.0
5. Aaron • ATL 6.8
6. Jenkins • CHC 6.6
7. Alou • ATL 6.5
8. Santo • CHC 6.4
9. Mays • SFG 6.2
10. Koosman • NYM 6.0

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. Clemente • PIT 8.1
2. McCovey • SFG 7.0
3. Aaron • ATL 6.8
4. Alou • ATL 6.5
5. Santo • CHC 6.4
6. Mays • SFG 6.2
7. Pérez • CIN 5.9
8. Brock • STL 5.8
9. Beckert • CHC 5.6
10. Rose • CIN 5.5

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. McCovey • SFG 6.6
2. Wynn • HOU 6.4
3. Alou • ATL 6.0
4. Mays • SFG 5.7
5. Rose • CIN 5.7
6. Allen • PHI 5.4
7. Pérez • CIN 5.4
8. Santo • CHC 5.3
9. Aaron • ATL 5.3
10. Alou • PIT 5.2

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. Alley • PIT 3.7
2. Mazeroski • PIT 2.6
3. Clemente • PIT 2.5
4. Lanier • SFG 2.4
5. Hundley • CHC 2.3
6. Ryan • PHI 1.9
7. Kessinger • CHC 1.9
8. Haller • LAD 1.8
9. May • PIT 1.7
10. Santo • CHC 1.5

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. Rose • CIN .335
2. Alou • PIT .332
3. Alou • ATL .317
4. Johnson • CIN .312
5. Flood • STL .301
6. Jones • NYM .297
7. Beckert • CHC .294
8. McCovey • SFG .293
9. Staub • HOU .291
10. Clemente • PIT .291

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. Rose • CIN .391
2. McCovey • SFG .378
3. Wynn • HOU .376
4. Staub • HOU .373
5. Mays • SFG .372
6. Hunt • SFG .371
7. Alou • ATL .365
8. Alou • PIT .362
9. Clemente • PIT .355
10. Santo • CHC .354

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. McCovey • SFG .545
2. Allen • PHI .520
3. Williams • CHC .500
4. Aaron • ATL .498
5. Mays • SFG .488
6. Clemente • PIT .482
7. Wynn • HOU .474
8. Rose • CIN .470
9. Banks • CHC .469
10. May • CIN .469

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. McCovey • SFG .923
2. Allen • PHI .872
3. Rose • CIN .861
4. Mays • SFG .860
5. Aaron • ATL .852
6. Wynn • HOU .850
7. Clemente • PIT .838
8. Williams • CHC .836
9. May • CIN .805
10. Alou • ATL .803

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Williams • CHC 163
2. Santo • CHC 162
3. Staub • HOU 161
4. Aaron • ATL 160
Alou • ATL 160
Hundley • CHC 160
Kessinger • CHC 160
Pérez • CIN 160
Davis • LAD 160
10. Brock • STL 159

At Bats

At Bats

1. Alou • ATL 662
2. Brock • STL 660
3. Kessinger • CHC 655
4. Beckert • CHC 643
Davis • LAD 643
6. Williams • CHC 642
7. Wills • PIT 627
8. Rose • CIN 626
9. Pérez • CIN 625
10. Rojas • PHI 621

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. Alou • ATL 718
2. Brock • STL 712
3. Kessinger • CHC 707
4. Williams • CHC 699
5. Rose • CIN 692
6. Pérez • CIN 690
7. Davis • LAD 686
8. Beckert • CHC 685
Wills • PIT 685
10. Santo • CHC 682
Staub • HOU 682

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Beckert • CHC 98
2. Rose • CIN 94
3. Pérez • CIN 93
4. Brock • STL 92
5. Williams • CHC 91
6. Allen • PHI 87
7. Santo • CHC 86
Davis • LAD 86
9. Wynn • HOU 85
10. Aaron • ATL 84
Mays • SFG 84

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Alou • ATL 210
Rose • CIN 210
3. Beckert • CHC 189
4. Johnson • CIN 188
5. Flood • STL 186
6. Williams • CHC 185
Alou • PIT 185
8. Brock • STL 184
9. Pérez • CIN 176
10. Aaron • ATL 174
Wills • PIT 174

Total Bases

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

1. Williams • CHC 321
2. Aaron • ATL 302
3. Rose • CIN 294
4. Alou • ATL 290
5. McCovey • SFG 285
6. Brock • STL 276
7. Allen • PHI 271
8. Pérez • CIN 269
9. May • CIN 262
10. Banks • CHC 259

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Brock • STL 46
2. Rose • CIN 42
3. Bench • CIN 40
4. Alou • ATL 37
Staub • HOU 37
6. Aaron • ATL 33
7. Johnson • CIN 32
May • CIN 32
9. Williams • CHC 30
10. Pinson • CIN 29
Jones • NYM 29
Shannon • STL 29

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Brock • STL 14
2. Clemente • PIT 12
3. Davis • LAD 10
4. Allen • PHI 9
5. Williams • CHC 8
6. Kessinger • CHC 7
Pérez • CIN 7
8. Johnson • CIN 6
Pinson • CIN 6
Rose • CIN 6
Menke • HOU 6
Swoboda • NYM 6
Clendenon • PIT 6
Wills • PIT 6
McCarver • STL 6

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. McCovey • SFG 36
2. Allen • PHI 33
3. Banks • CHC 32
4. Williams • CHC 30
5. Aaron • ATL 29
6. Santo • CHC 26
Wynn • HOU 26
8. Stargell • PIT 24
9. Hart • SFG 23
Mays • SFG 23

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. McCovey • SFG 105
2. Santo • CHC 98
Williams • CHC 98
4. Pérez • CIN 92
5. Allen • PHI 90
6. Clendenon • PIT 87
7. Aaron • ATL 86
8. Banks • CHC 83
9. Bench • CIN 82
10. May • CIN 80

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Santo • CHC 96
2. Wynn • HOU 90
3. Hunt • SFG 78
4. Allen • PHI 74
5. Staub • HOU 73
6. McCovey • SFG 72
7. Mays • SFG 67
8. Aaron • ATL 64
Menke • HOU 64
10. Briggs • PHI 58

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Clendenon • PIT 163
2. Allen • PHI 161
3. Wynn • HOU 131
4. Brock • STL 124
5. Shannon • STL 114
6. Swoboda • NYM 113
7. Santo • CHC 106
8. Stargell • PIT 105
9. Agee • NYM 103
10. May • CIN 100

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Brock • STL 62
2. Wills • PIT 52
3. Davis • LAD 36
4. Aaron • ATL 28
5. Jones • NYM 23
6. Taylor • PHI 22
7. Alou • PIT 18
Patek • PIT 18
9. Pinson • CIN 17
10. Jackson • ATL 16
Johnson • CIN 16
Bonds • SFG 16

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Flood • STL 160
2. Alou • ATL 157
3. Wills • PIT 156
4. Beckert • CHC 153
Alou • PIT 153
6. Rose • CIN 152
7. Johnson • CIN 148
8. Millán • ATL 140
9. Kessinger • CHC 135
10. Staub • HOU 128

Adjusted OPS+

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

1. McCovey • SFG 174
2. Allen • PHI 160
3. Wynn • HOU 158
4. Mays • SFG 156
5. Aaron • ATL 153
6. Clemente • PIT 152
7. Rose • CIN 152
8. Williams • CHC 142
9. Alou • ATL 140
10. Jones • NYM 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. Rose • CIN 113
2. McCovey • SFG 110
3. Williams • CHC 107
4. Aaron • ATL 104
5. Alou • ATL 103
6. Wynn • HOU 98
Brock • STL 98
8. Allen • PHI 97
9. Mays • SFG 91
10. Pérez • CIN 88
Staub • HOU 88

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. McCovey • SFG 49
2. Rose • CIN 42
3. Wynn • HOU 41
4. Aaron • ATL 39
5. Allen • PHI 38
6. Mays • SFG 36
7. Alou • ATL 33
8. Williams • CHC 32
9. Clemente • PIT 31
10. Staub • HOU 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. McCovey • SFG 5.4
2. Rose • CIN 4.7
3. Wynn • HOU 4.6
4. Aaron • ATL 4.4
5. Allen • PHI 4.2
6. Mays • SFG 4.0
7. Alou • ATL 3.6
8. Williams • CHC 3.5
9. Clemente • PIT 3.4
10. Staub • HOU 3.1

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Williams • CHC 68
2. Aaron • ATL 66
Brock • STL 66
4. Banks • CHC 59
Allen • PHI 59
6. Rose • CIN 58
7. Bench • CIN 57
8. McCovey • SFG 56
9. May • CIN 55
10. Wynn • HOU 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. Rose • CIN 270
2. Alou • ATL 262
3. Staub • HOU 252
4. Santo • CHC 241
Wynn • HOU 241
6. Aaron • ATL 239
7. Williams • CHC 235
Hunt • SFG 235
9. Pérez • CIN 233
Brock • STL 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. McCovey • SFG .800
2. Rose • CIN .772
3. Mays • SFG .749
4. Allen • PHI .747
5. Wynn • HOU .732
6. Aaron • ATL .725
7. Williams • CHC .724
8. Clemente • PIT .715
9. Alou • ATL .711
10. Jones • NYM .681

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Hunt • SFG 25
2. Cepeda • STL 9
3. Johnson • CHC 7
Staub • HOU 7
Shamsky • NYM 7
González • PHI 7
7. Millán • ATL 6
May • CIN 6
Pérez • CIN 6
Menke • HOU 6
Stargell • PIT 6

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Niekro • ATL 18
2. Hunt • SFG 16
3. Millán • ATL 14
Lanier • SFG 14
5. Torres • HOU 12
Parker • LAD 12
7. Kessinger • CHC 11
Culver • CIN 11
Wills • PIT 11
Washburn • STL 11

Sacrifice Flies

Sacrifice Flies
First tracked in 1954.

1. Haller • LAD 9
2. Bench • CIN 8
Clendenon • PIT 8
McCovey • SFG 8
5. Williams • CHC 7
Pérez • CIN 7
Allen • PHI 7
Rojas • PHI 7
Stargell • PIT 7
10. Pinson • CIN 6
Aspromonte • HOU 6
Fairly • LAD 6
González • PHI 6
Hart • SFG 6
Lanier • SFG 6
Mays • SFG 6
Shannon • STL 6

Intentional Bases on Balls

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

1. Clemente • PIT 27
2. Staub • HOU 24
3. Aaron • ATL 23
4. Phillips • CHC 20
McCovey • SFG 20
6. Cárdenas • CIN 18
7. Bateman • HOU 16
8. Rose • CIN 15
Allen • PHI 15
10. Alou • ATL 14

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. Aaron • ATL 21
2. May • CIN 20
Alley • PIT 20
Alou • SFG 20
5. Hundley • CHC 19
Pérez • CIN 19
7. Santo • CHC 18
Johnson • CIN 18
Mazeroski • PIT 18
10. Millán • ATL 17
Lanier • SFG 17

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Wills • PIT 21
2. Wynn • HOU 17
3. Jones • NYM 12
Brock • STL 12
5. Alou • ATL 11
Pinson • CIN 11
7. Davis • LAD 10
Alou • PIT 10
9. Kessinger • CHC 9
10. Menke • HOU 8
Agee • NYM 8
Rojas • PHI 8

SB %

Stolen Base Percentage
SB / (SB + CS)

1. Aaron • ATL 84.85
2. Brock • STL 83.78
3. Taylor • PHI 81.48
4. Davis • LAD 78.26
5. Jackson • ATL 72.73
Johnson • CIN 72.73
7. Alley • PIT 72.22
8. Patek • PIT 72.00
9. Wills • PIT 71.23
10. Bonds • SFG 69.57

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 • ATL 28.5
2. Jones • NYM 17.4
3. Mays • SFG 15.8
4. Wynn • HOU 15.5
5. Clendenon • PIT 12.6
6. Davis • LAD 11.7
7. Allen • PHI 11.6
8. Bonds • SFG 11.5
9. Alou • ATL 11.5
10. Brock • STL 10.9

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. Beckert • CHC 32.2
2. Millán • ATL 21.9
3. Alou • PIT 21.5
4. Helms • CIN 18.8
5. Mazeroski • PIT 13.3
6. Hunt • SFG 12.9
7. Williams • CHC 12.1
8. Alou • ATL 11.8
9. Rojas • PHI 11.3
10. Wills • PIT 11.0

AB per HR

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

1. McCovey • SFG 14.5
2. Allen • PHI 15.8
3. Banks • CHC 17.3
4. Stargell • PIT 18.1 **
5. Wynn • HOU 20.8
6. Hart • SFG 20.9
7. Aaron • ATL 20.9
8. Williams • CHC 21.4
9. Mays • SFG 21.7
10. Santo • CHC 22.2

Outs Made

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

1. Kessinger • CHC 526
2. Rojas • PHI 511
3. Davis • LAD 506
4. Wills • PIT 496
5. Brock • STL 495
6. Williams • CHC 478
Pérez • CIN 478
8. Alou • ATL 477
9. Cepeda • STL 474
10. Beckert • CHC 473

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. McCovey • SFG 55.16
2. Williams • CHC 49.88
3. Allen • PHI 43.42
4. Mays • SFG 40.75
5. Wynn • HOU 34.80
6. Brock • STL 34.79
7. Staub • HOU 34.34
8. Rose • CIN 33.78
9. Pérez • CIN 32.94
10. Santo • CHC 32.88

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. Allen • PHI 6.6
2. McCovey • SFG 6.1
3. Mays • SFG 6.0
4. Aaron • ATL 5.6
5. Williams • CHC 5.2
6. Brock • STL 5.1
7. Wynn • HOU 4.1
8. Alou • ATL 3.9
9. Jones • NYM 3.7
10. Pérez • CIN 3.6

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. McCovey • SFG 5.9
2. Allen • PHI 5.7
3. Wynn • HOU 5.2
4. Williams • CHC 4.6
5. Aaron • ATL 4.5
6. Mays • SFG 4.4
7. Brock • STL 3.7
8. Alou • ATL 3.4
9. Rose • CIN 3.3
10. Jones • NYM 3.2

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. Brock • STL 8.1
2. Shannon • STL 7.8
3. Flood • STL 6.1
4. McCovey • SFG 4.6
5. Mays • SFG 4.4
6. Allen • PHI 3.5
7. Alou • ATL 3.3
8. Aaron • ATL 2.7
9. Maris • STL 2.4
10. Johnson • CIN 2.3

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. McCovey • SFG 6.0
2. Williams • CHC 5.3
3. Allen • PHI 4.8
4. Mays • SFG 4.5
5. Wynn • HOU 3.9
6. Brock • STL 3.9
7. Staub • HOU 3.9
8. Rose • CIN 3.6
Jones • NYM 3.6
10. Aaron • ATL 3.6

rOBA

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

1. McCovey • SFG .424
2. Allen • PHI .393
3. Mays • SFG .393
4. Aaron • ATL .392
5. Wynn • HOU .391
6. Rose • CIN .390
7. Clemente • PIT .389
8. Jones • NYM .383
9. Williams • CHC .379
10. Alou • ATL .378

Rbat+

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

1. McCovey • SFG 193
2. Wynn • HOU 177
3. Allen • PHI 171
4. Clemente • PIT 171
5. Mays • SFG 166
6. Rose • CIN 164
7. Aaron • ATL 161
8. Jones • NYM 159
9. Alou • ATL 158
10. May • CIN 153

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