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Reggie Jackson, the all-time leader in strikeouts by a batter This list is for batters. For career strikeouts by pitchers, see List of Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders. In baseball, a strikeout (or strike-out) occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during a time at bat.
Josh Gibson has the highest major-league career batting average (.372). He is also the most recent player to hit .400 in a season (1943). In modern times, a season batting average of .300 or higher is considered to be excellent, and an average higher than .400 is a nearly unachievable goal.
In Major League Baseball (MLB), records play an integral part in evaluating a player's impact on the sport. Holding a career record almost guarantees a player eventual entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame because it represents both longevity and consistency over a long period of time. (For Japanese baseball records see Nippon Professional Baseball)
RBI [2] Player Team Year Years record stood 60: Deacon White *: Chicago White Stockings: 1876: 3 62: Charley Jones: Boston Red Caps: 1879: 1 62: John O'Rourke (r): Boston Red Caps
The site has season, career, and minor league records (when available, back to 1888) for everyone who has played Major League Baseball, year-by-year team pages, all final league standings, all postseason numbers, voting results for all historic awards such as the Cy Young Award and MVP, head-to-head batter vs. pitcher career totals, individual statistical leaders for each season and all-time ...
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
This is a list of the top 100 Major League Baseball pitchers who have the most hit batsmen of all time. Gus Weyhing (277) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] holds the dubious record for most hit batsmen in a career. Chick Fraser (219), [ 3 ] Pink Hawley (210), [ 4 ] and Walter Johnson (205) [ 5 ] are the only other pitchers to hit 200 or more batters in their careers.
whiff rate: a term, usually used in reference to pitchers, that divides the number of pitches swung at and missed by the total number of swings in a given sample. If a pitcher throws 100 pitches at which batters swing, and the batters fail to make contact on 26 of them, the pitcher's whiff rate is 26%.