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The base on balls is defined in Section 2.00 of baseball's Official Rules, [1] and further detail is given in 6.08(a). [2] The following table lists the top 100 career base on balls leaders in Major League Baseball history. Since 2007, Barry Bonds [3] [4] holds the record for most career walks drawn with 2,558.
Early forms of baseball or rounders from the mid 19th century did not require a fixed batting order; any player who was not on base could be called upon to bat. [6] The concept of a set batting order is said to have been invented by Alexander Cartwright, who also instituted rules such as the foul ball and tagging the runner (as opposed to pegging him with the ball), and devised the shortstop ...
Yan Gomes, the active leader and is tied for 266th all-time in fielding errors as a catcher. Silver Flint holds the National League record of 436 errors as a catcher, but also held the league record for career assists for 15 years. King Kelly, 10th all-time in fielding errors by a catcher despite playing over 60% of his career at other positions.
This list displays a chronology of the annual top ten leaders in career base hits in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1876 through 2022. The table assists in identifying the most significant players in each era, and helps to understand the importance of many past stars.
(Top) 1 General. 2 Batting. 3 Pitching. 4 Baserunning. 5 ... List of Major League Baseball records includes the following lists of the superlative statistics of Major ...
The following is a chronology of the top ten leaders in lifetime home runs in Major League Baseball.This includes any home runs hit by a player during official regular season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games) in the National Association (1871–1875), National League (since 1876), the American Association (1882–1891), the Union Association (1884), the Players' League (1890 ...
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.
OBP is calculated in Major League Baseball (MLB) by dividing the sum of hits, walks, and times hit by a pitch by the sum of at-bats, walks, times hit by pitch and sacrifice flies. [1] 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 ...