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. Bellinger • LAD 8.7
2. deGrom • NYM 7.8
3. Rendon • WSN 7.2
4. Arenado • COL 7.1
Yelich • MIL 7.1
6. Story • COL 6.9
7. Marte • ARI 6.9
8. Báez • CHC 6.6
9. Gray • CIN 6.1
10. Strasburg • WSN 5.9

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. Bellinger • LAD 8.7
2. Rendon • WSN 7.2
3. Arenado • COL 7.1
Yelich • MIL 7.1
5. Story • COL 6.9
6. Marte • ARI 6.9
7. Báez • CHC 6.6
8. Alonso • NYM 5.4
9. Wong • STL 5.4
10. DeJong • STL 5.3
Donaldson • ATL 5.3
Muncy • LAD 5.3

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. Yelich • MIL 7.3
2. Rendon • WSN 6.7
3. Marte • ARI 6.6
4. Bellinger • LAD 6.5
5. Alonso • NYM 5.6
6. Arenado • COL 5.1
7. Soto • WSN 5.0
Story • COL 5.0
9. Bryant • CHC 4.8
10. Acuña • ATL 4.7

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. Báez • CHC 3.9
2. DeJong • STL 3.1
3. Story • COL 2.7
4. Robles • WSN 2.5
5. Arenado • COL 2.4
6. Wong • STL 2.2
7. Cain • MIL 2.1
8. Ahmed • ARI 2.1
9. Wolters • COL 2.0
10. Realmuto • 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. Yelich • MIL .329
2. Marte • ARI .329
3. Rendon • WSN .319
4. McNeil • NYM .318
5. Arenado • COL .315
6. Blackmon • COL .314
7. Reynolds • PIT .314
8. Newman • PIT .308
9. Bellinger • LAD .305
10. Turner • WSN .298

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. Yelich • MIL .429
2. Rendon • WSN .412
3. Bellinger • LAD .406
4. Rizzo • CHC .405
5. Soto • WSN .401
6. Freeman • ATL .389
7. Marte • ARI .389
8. McNeil • NYM .384
9. Bryant • CHC .382
10. Grandal • MIL .380

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. Yelich • MIL .671
2. Bellinger • LAD .629
3. Rendon • WSN .598
4. Marte • ARI .592
5. Arenado • COL .583
6. Alonso • NYM .583
7. Blackmon • COL .576
8. Suárez • CIN .572
9. Bell • PIT .569
10. Story • COL .554

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. Yelich • MIL 1.100
2. Bellinger • LAD 1.035
3. Rendon • WSN 1.010
4. Marte • ARI .981
5. Arenado • COL .962
6. Soto • WSN .949
7. Alonso • NYM .941
8. Blackmon • COL .940
9. Freeman • ATL .938
10. Bell • PIT .936

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Castro • MIA 162
2. Alonso • NYM 161
Hernández • PHI 161
Goldschmidt • STL 161
5. Albies • ATL 160
Hoskins • PHI 160
Hosmer • SDP 160
8. Suárez • CIN 159
DeJong • STL 159
10. Ahmed • ARI 158
Escobar • ARI 158
Freeman • ATL 158

At Bats

At Bats

1. Albies • ATL 640
2. Escobar • ARI 636
Castro • MIA 636
4. Acuña • ATL 626
5. Hosmer • SDP 619
6. Rosario • NYM 616
7. Hernández • PHI 612
8. Freeman • ATL 597
Alonso • NYM 597
Goldschmidt • STL 597

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. Acuña • ATL 715
2. Hoskins • PHI 705
3. Albies • ATL 702
4. Escobar • ARI 699
5. Alonso • NYM 693
6. Freeman • ATL 692
7. Harper • PHI 682
Goldschmidt • STL 682
9. Castro • MIA 676
10. Hernández • PHI 667
Hosmer • SDP 667

Runs Scored

Runs Scored/Allowed

1. Acuña • ATL 127
2. Bellinger • LAD 121
3. Rendon • WSN 117
4. Freeman • ATL 113
5. Blackmon • COL 112
6. Story • COL 111
7. Soto • WSN 110
8. Bryant • CHC 108
9. Alonso • NYM 103
Eaton • WSN 103

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Albies • ATL 189
2. Marte • ARI 187
3. Arenado • COL 185
4. Blackmon • COL 182
5. Rosario • NYM 177
6. Freeman • ATL 176
7. Acuña • ATL 175
8. Rendon • WSN 174
9. Story • COL 173
10. Castro • MIA 172

Total Bases

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

1. Bellinger • LAD 351
2. Alonso • NYM 348
3. Arenado • COL 343
4. Marte • ARI 337
5. Blackmon • COL 334
6. Suárez • CIN 329
7. Freeman • ATL 328
Yelich • MIL 328
9. Story • COL 326
Rendon • WSN 326

Doubles

Doubles Hit/Allowed

1. Seager • LAD 44
Rendon • WSN 44
3. Albies • ATL 43
4. Blackmon • COL 42
5. Báez • CHC 38
Story • COL 38
McNeil • NYM 38
8. Segura • PHI 37
Bell • PIT 37
Reynolds • PIT 37
Pillar • SFG 37
Turner • WSN 37

Triples

Triples Hit/Allowed

1. Escobar • ARI 10
2. Marte • ARI 9
3. Albies • ATL 8
4. Ervin • CIN 7
Blackmon • COL 7
Rosario • NYM 7
Frazier • PIT 7
Edman • STL 7
Eaton • WSN 7
10. Ahmed • ARI 6
Marte • PIT 6
Newman • PIT 6
Tatís • SDP 6

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Alonso • NYM 53
2. Suárez • CIN 49
3. Bellinger • LAD 47
4. Yelich • MIL 44
5. Acuña • ATL 41
Arenado • COL 41
7. Freeman • ATL 38
Schwarber • CHC 38
9. Donaldson • ATL 37
Bell • PIT 37

Runs Batted In

Runs Batted In

1. Rendon • WSN 126
2. Freeman • ATL 121
3. Alonso • NYM 120
4. Escobar • ARI 118
Arenado • COL 118
6. Bell • PIT 116
7. Bellinger • LAD 115
8. Harper • PHI 114
9. Soto • WSN 110
10. Suárez • CIN 103

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Hoskins • PHI 116
2. Grandal • MIL 109
3. Soto • WSN 108
4. Donaldson • ATL 100
5. Harper • PHI 99
6. Bellinger • LAD 95
7. Muncy • LAD 90
8. Freeman • ATL 87
9. Conforto • NYM 84
10. Belt • SFG 83

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Suárez • CIN 189
2. Acuña • ATL 188
3. Alonso • NYM 183
4. Harper • PHI 178
5. Story • COL 174
6. Hoskins • PHI 173
7. Myers • SDP 168
8. Goldschmidt • STL 166
9. Hosmer • SDP 163
10. McMahon • COL 160

Stolen Bases

Stolen Bases

1. Acuña • ATL 37
2. Turner • WSN 35
3. Dyson • ARI 30
Yelich • MIL 30
5. Robles • WSN 28
6. Marte • PIT 25
7. Wong • STL 24
8. Story • COL 23
9. Margot • SDP 20
10. Rosario • NYM 19

Singles

Singles Hit/Allowed

1. Rosario • NYM 125
2. Hernández • PHI 123
3. Castro • MIA 115
4. Albies • ATL 114
Newman • PIT 114
6. Arenado • COL 111
Hosmer • SDP 111
Eaton • WSN 111
9. Marte • ARI 110
Acuña • ATL 110
Iglesias • CIN 110

Adjusted OPS+

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

1. Yelich • MIL 179
2. Bellinger • LAD 167
3. Rendon • WSN 157
4. Marte • ARI 149
5. Alonso • NYM 147
6. McNeil • NYM 143
7. Soto • WSN 142
8. Bell • PIT 142
9. Rizzo • CHC 139
10. Freeman • ATL 135

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. Yelich • MIL 150
2. Bellinger • LAD 146
3. Rendon • WSN 139
4. Marte • ARI 134
5. Arenado • COL 129
6. Soto • WSN 128
7. Freeman • ATL 127
8. Alonso • NYM 126
9. Acuña • ATL 125
10. Story • COL 123

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. Yelich • MIL 60
2. Bellinger • LAD 58
3. Rendon • WSN 51
4. Alonso • NYM 41
5. Marte • ARI 41
6. Soto • WSN 38
7. Bell • PIT 35
8. McNeil • NYM 34
9. Rizzo • CHC 33
10. Freeman • ATL 33

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. Yelich • MIL 5.6
2. Bellinger • LAD 5.4
3. Rendon • WSN 4.7
4. Alonso • NYM 3.9
5. Marte • ARI 3.9
6. Soto • WSN 3.6
7. Bell • PIT 3.2
8. Rizzo • CHC 3.1
McNeil • NYM 3.1
10. Freeman • ATL 3.1

Extra Base Hits

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

1. Alonso • NYM 85
2. Bellinger • LAD 84
3. Blackmon • COL 81
Rendon • WSN 81
5. Story • COL 78
6. Marte • ARI 77
Bell • PIT 77
8. Yelich • MIL 76
9. Albies • ATL 75
10. Escobar • ARI 74
Freeman • ATL 74
Arenado • COL 74

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. Freeman • ATL 269
2. Bellinger • LAD 268
3. Rendon • WSN 266
4. Soto • WSN 264
5. Acuña • ATL 260
6. Hoskins • PHI 256
7. Harper • PHI 254
8. Arenado • COL 251
9. Donaldson • ATL 250
10. Yelich • MIL 249

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. Yelich • MIL .830
2. Bellinger • LAD .770
3. Rendon • WSN .765
4. Marte • ARI .753
5. Soto • WSN .725
6. Arenado • COL .710
7. McNeil • NYM .697
8. Rizzo • CHC .695
9. Freeman • ATL .690
Story • COL .690

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Rizzo • CHC 27
2. Dietrich • CIN 25
Robles • WSN 25
4. Locastro • ARI 22
5. Alonso • NYM 21
McNeil • NYM 21
7. Marte • PIT 16
8. Bryant • CHC 15
9. Turner • LAD 14
Anderson • MIA 14

Sacrifice Hits

Sacrifice Hits (Sacrifice Bunts)

1. Kershaw • LAD 15
2. Maeda • LAD 13
3. Gray • CIN 12
Ryu • LAD 12
5. Márquez • COL 10
6. Quintana • CHC 9
Gray • COL 9
Flaherty • STL 9
Eaton • WSN 9
10. Musgrove • PIT 8

Sacrifice Flies

Sacrifice Flies
First tracked in 1954.

1. Ahmed • ARI 12
2. Escobar • ARI 10
3. Castro • MIA 9
Rendon • WSN 9
5. Arenado • COL 8
Realmuto • PHI 8
7. Bell • PIT 7
8. Markakis • ATL 6
McCann • ATL 6
Schwarber • CHC 6
Suárez • CIN 6
Wolters • COL 6
Verdugo • LAD 6
Arcia • MIL 6
Hoskins • PHI 6
Renfroe • SDP 6
Pillar • SFG 6
DeJong • STL 6
Soto • WSN 6

Intentional Bases on Balls

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

1. Bellinger • LAD 21
2. Franco • PHI 19
3. Yelich • MIL 16
4. Bell • PIT 13
5. Freeman • ATL 11
Arenado • COL 11
Harper • PHI 11
8. Kelly • ARI 10
9. Rendon • WSN 8
10. Avila • ARI 7
Barnhart • CIN 7

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. Machado • SDP 24
2. Castro • MIA 23
3. Ozuna • STL 21
4. Posey • SFG 18
5. Freeman • ATL 17
Iglesias • CIN 17
7. Báez • CHC 16
Grandal • MIL 16
Canó • NYM 16
Ramos • NYM 16

Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

1. Rosario • NYM 10
2. Acuña • ATL 9
Robles • WSN 9
4. Story • COL 8
Cain • MIL 8
Newman • PIT 8
7. Báez • CHC 7
Myers • SDP 7
9. Iglesias • CIN 6
Peraza • CIN 6
McNeil • NYM 6
Marte • PIT 6
Tatís • SDP 6

SB %

Stolen Base Percentage
SB / (SB + CS)

1. Locastro • ARI 100.00
2. Edman • STL 93.75
Yelich • MIL 93.75
4. Dyson • ARI 88.24
5. Turner • WSN 87.50
6. Wong • STL 85.71
7. Berti • MIA 85.00
8. Eaton • WSN 83.33
Hampson • COL 83.33
Margot • SDP 83.33
Harper • PHI 83.33

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. Acuña • ATL 38.9
2. Yelich • MIL 35.7
3. Story • COL 27.8
4. Turner • WSN 24.6
5. Marte • PIT 24.0
6. Bellinger • LAD 22.7
7. Robles • WSN 21.2
8. Harper • PHI 21.0
9. Tatís • SDP 18.5
10. Albies • ATL 18.5

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. Newman • PIT 8.0
2. Segura • PHI 7.9
3. Rojas • MIA 7.8
4. Panik • 2TM 9.3 **
5. Frazier • PIT 7.4
6. Iglesias • CIN 7.2
7. Pillar • SFG 6.9
8. Ramos • NYM 6.9
9. McNeil • NYM 6.8
10. Marte • ARI 6.6

AB per HR

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

1. Yelich • MIL 11.1
2. Alonso • NYM 11.3
3. Suárez • CIN 11.7
4. Bellinger • LAD 11.9
5. Pederson • LAD 12.5
6. Renfroe • SDP 13.3 **
7. Muncy • LAD 13.9
8. Schwarber • CHC 13.9
9. Bell • PIT 14.2
10. Arenado • COL 14.3

Outs Made

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

1. Castro • MIA 498
2. Escobar • ARI 484
3. Hosmer • SDP 475
4. DeJong • STL 473
5. Acuña • ATL 469
6. Rosario • NYM 467
Machado • SDP 467
8. Pillar • SFG 464
9. Albies • ATL 461
10. Hoskins • PHI 459

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. Rendon • WSN 65.92
2. Yelich • MIL 63.94
3. Bellinger • LAD 61.88
4. Freeman • ATL 52.07
5. Harper • PHI 48.73
6. Rizzo • CHC 47.88
7. Marte • ARI 46.32
8. Arenado • COL 46.22
9. Alonso • NYM 41.93
10. Acuña • ATL 40.48

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. Yelich • MIL 7.1
2. Bellinger • LAD 5.0
3. Rendon • WSN 4.9
4. Harper • PHI 4.6
5. Muncy • LAD 4.6
6. Rizzo • CHC 4.5
7. Freeman • ATL 4.4
8. Acuña • ATL 4.3
9. Arenado • COL 4.1
10. Blackmon • COL 3.7

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. Yelich • MIL 6.5
2. Bellinger • LAD 5.9
3. Rendon • WSN 4.8
4. Alonso • NYM 4.5
5. Marte • ARI 4.4
6. Soto • WSN 4.3
7. Freeman • ATL 4.0
8. Arenado • COL 3.8
9. Rizzo • CHC 3.7
10. Muncy • LAD 3.5

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. Yelich • MIL 5.5
2. Rizzo • CHC 4.5
3. Rendon • WSN 3.3
4. Freeman • ATL 3.1
5. Harper • PHI 3.0
6. Bryant • CHC 2.9
7. Bellinger • LAD 2.6
8. Edman • STL 2.6
9. Acuña • ATL 2.2
10. Soto • WSN 2.1

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. Rendon • WSN 6.1
2. Yelich • MIL 5.9
3. Bellinger • LAD 5.8
4. Freeman • ATL 4.7
5. Harper • PHI 4.5
6. Rizzo • CHC 4.5
7. Marte • ARI 4.3
8. Alonso • NYM 4.1
9. Arenado • COL 4.0
10. Muncy • LAD 3.8

rOBA

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

1. Yelich • MIL .458
2. Rendon • WSN .422
3. Bellinger • LAD .421
4. Marte • ARI .413
5. Arenado • COL .404
6. Soto • WSN .404
7. Alonso • NYM .399
8. Rizzo • CHC .395
9. Blackmon • COL .393
10. Story • COL .392

Rbat+

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

1. Yelich • MIL 188
2. Bellinger • LAD 172
3. Rendon • WSN 166
4. Alonso • NYM 160
5. Marte • ARI 159
6. McNeil • NYM 155
7. Soto • WSN 151
8. Rizzo • CHC 149
9. Muncy • LAD 146
10. Bell • PIT 145

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