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Josh Gibson holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler 's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season. Record.
A point (or percentage point) is understood to be .001. If necessary to break ties, batting averages could be taken to more than three decimal places. Catcher Josh Gibson, whose career ended in 1946, has the highest batting average in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. [a] He batted .372 over 14 seasons, mostly with the Homestead Grays. In ...
Williams led the American League (AL) in on-base percentage in twelve seasons, the most such seasons for any player in the major leagues. [4][5] Barry Bonds led the National League (NL) in ten seasons, a NL record. [5][6] Williams also posted the then-highest single-season on-base percentage of .5528 in 1941, a record that stood for 61 years ...
List of Major League Baseball career double plays as a second baseman leaders. List of Major League Baseball career double plays as a third baseman leaders. List of Major League Baseball career double plays as a shortstop leaders. List of Major League Baseball career double plays as a left fielder leaders.
This is a list of the top 100 players in career earned run average, who have thrown at least 1,000 innings. Ed Walsh [1][2] holds the major league earned run average record at 1.816. Addie Joss [3] (1.887) and Jim Devlin [4] (1.896) are the only other pitchers with a career earned run average under 2.000.
Pedro Martínez won five ERA titles across both leagues; his 2000 margin of victory over Clemens for the ERA title is the largest in Major League Baseball history. John Lackey 's 3.01 ERA in 2007 led the American League. Cliff Lee won the Cy Young Award in 2008 [177] in addition to the ERA title.
The record was previously held by Cobb until the integration of Negro league statistics into Major League Baseball's record books on May 28, 2024. Since then, Gibson not only holds the new record for career batting average, but also the records for career OPS with 1.177 and slugging percentage with .718, as well as the single-season records in ...
Kenley Jansen, the active leader and 36th all-time in games played as a pitcher. John Franco holds the National League record. Mariano Rivera holds the American League record, as well as the record for right-handed pitchers. Hoyt Wilhelm held the major league record for 30 years. Cy Young held the major league record for 63 years.