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Mariano Rivera [2] [3] [4] is the all-time leader in saves with 652. Rivera and Trevor Hoffman [5] are the only pitchers in MLB history to save more than 600 career games. Lee Smith, [6] Kenley Jansen, [7] Craig Kimbrel, [8] Francisco Rodríguez, [9] John Franco, [10] and Billy Wagner [11] are the only other pitchers to save more than 400 games ...
Mariano Rivera has the most career saves in Major League Baseball history with 652. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 300 save club is the group of pitchers who have recorded 300 or more regular-season saves in their careers.
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
The term save was being used as far back as 1952. [4] Executives Jim Toomey of the St. Louis Cardinals and Irv Kaze of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and statistician Allan Roth of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers awarded saves to pitchers who finished winning games but were not credited with the win, regardless of the margin of victory.
The statistic was created by Jerome Holtzman in 1959 to "measure the effectiveness of relief pitchers" and was adopted as an MLB official statistic in 1969. [2] [3] The save has been retroactively measured for pitchers before that date. MLB recognizes the player or players in each league with the most saves each season
Cy Young, the all-time leader in career wins. This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this ...
Josh Gibson, who played 510 games in the Negro League, 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.
Josh Gibson has the highest career batting average in major league history with .372. In baseball , the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats . It is usually reported to three decimal places and pronounced as if it were multiplied by 1,000: a player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three hundred."