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A hitter with a .400 on-base percentage is considered to be great [2] and rare; [3] only 61 players in MLB history with at least 3,000 career plate appearances (PA) have maintained such an OBP. Left fielder Ted Williams, who played 19 seasons for the Boston Red Sox, has the highest career on-base percentage, .4817, in MLB history. [4]
Rickey Henderson leads all Major League Baseball players with 2,295 career runs scored. Listed are all Major League Baseball (MLB) players with 1,000 or more career runs scored. Players in boldface are active as of the 2025 Major League Baseball season.
This is a list of the 300 Major League Baseball players who have hit the most career home runs in regular season play (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games). In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play
Chris Sale, Steven Kwan, Carlos Correa and Zack Wheeler have been among the best players on some of baseball's best teams. (Gregory Hodge/Yahoo Sports) (Gregory Hodge/Yahoo Sports) 9.
WAR is recognized as an official stat by Major League Baseball and by the Elias Sports Bureau, and ESPN publishes the Baseball-Reference version of WAR on its own statistics pages for position players and pitchers. [2] The importance of WAR compared to typical statistical categories has been the subject of ongoing debate.
Ranking the top 25 MLB players of the last 25 years. Brian Fitzsimmons. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:39 PM. Major League Baseball has seen more rapid change over the last two decades than ever ...
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.
The consensus best team in baseball sent two relievers to the All-Star Game in Jeff Hoffman and Matt Strahm, and that was entirely deserved. Meanwhile, the team’s current saves leader, José ...