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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 ...
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.
Gibson holds the record for highest major-league career batting average at .372, [11] six points higher than Ty Cobb who has the second-highest career average at .366. [12] The record for lowest career batting average for a player with more than 2,500 at-bats belongs to Bill Bergen , a catcher who played from 1901 to 1911 and recorded a .170 ...
Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers, who also holds the highest career batting average of .366, led the AL in average in 11 (or 12) seasons. [9] Honus Wagner and Gwynn are tied for the second-most titles, with eight apiece in the NL. [5] [10] It is unclear whether Lajoie or Cobb won the 1910 AL title, with some sources attributing the title to each man.
List of Major League Baseball career double plays as a first baseman leaders. 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.
At the end of the 2023 season, after the retirement of Miguel Cabrera, Jose Altuve leads active players in career batting average with .307, 6 points above Freddie Freeman at .301. [75] 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.
Highest caught-stealing %: Mike LaValliere, 72.73% (1993) [20] Most no-hitters caught: 2, Carlos Ruiz (2010) and Wilson Ramos (2015) (List of Major League Baseball no-hitters) Both of Ruiz's no-hitters were by Roy Halladay; the second was in Game 1 of the National League Division Series, Halladay's first career postseason start.
Shoeless Joe Jackson of the Cleveland Naps hit .408 in 1911, the highest batting average ever recorded by a rookie in the American League. Joe Strong has the lowest career batting average among players who have batted .400 in a season with .266, while Gibson – with .372 – recorded the highest career average in major league history. [12]