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RBI Team [1] Season Hack Wilson * 191: Chicago Cubs: 1930: Lou Gehrig * 185: New York Yankees: 1931: Hank Greenberg * 184: ... List of Major League Baseball runs ...
In Major League Baseball (MLB), a player in each league wins the "RBI crown" [4] or "RBI title" [5] [6] each season by hitting the most runs batted in that year. The first RBI champion in the National League (NL) was Deacon White; in the league's inaugural 1876 season, White hit 60 RBIs for the Chicago White Stockings. [7]
The list on this page is compiled from Baseball-Reference, which credits RBIs from 1907 to 1919 as recorded by baseball writer and historian Ernest Lanigan. One difference between the lists is that Babe Ruth is ranked third by Baseball Reference, but seventh by MLB, which does not count Ruth's 224 RBI compiled before 1920.
Consecutive seasons hitting .300 or better (50 or more games) 23 – Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers – 1906–1928; Consecutive seasons, 100 or more RBI. 13 (3 tied) Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees – 1926–1938; Jimmie Foxx, Philadelphia A's and Boston Red Sox – 1929–1941; Alex Rodriguez, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers and New York Yankees ...
Player Runs Team [2] Season Billy Hamilton: 198: Philadelphia Phillies: 1894 Babe Ruth: 177: New York Yankees: 1921 Lou Gehrig: 167: New York Yankees: 1936 Billy Hamilton
Over the course of 145 seasons (from 1876 to 2023, excluding 1981, 1994, and 2020), 119 teams have won 100 or more games in a single Major League Baseball season. While this makes the feat a relatively common occurrence, the 100-win threshold remains the hallmark of the best teams in a given season.
The 2018 edition of the Official Baseball Rules of Major League Baseball (MLB), Rule 9.04 Runs Batted In, reads: [6] A run batted in is a statistic credited to a batter whose action at bat causes one or more runs to score, as outlined in Rule 9.04. (a) The official scorer shall credit the batter with a run batted in for every run that scores
Neither the number of baserunners nor the RBI percentage is within the top 60 seasons for those statistics in MLB history, with some seasons in the top 60 of both categories having been recorded in the 21st century, and he added "we've all seen players hit 56 home runs, even this decade." [27]