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Babe Ruth is the all-time leader in WAR with a value of 182.6. He predominantly played for the New York Yankees, but before that he played for the Boston Red Sox until he was traded to the New York Yankees in 1919. He is widely regarded as the greatest player of all time. Mike Trout is the active WAR leader with 86.2.
Wins Above Replacement or Wins Above Replacement Player, commonly abbreviated to WAR or WARP, is a non-standardized sabermetric baseball statistic developed to sum up "a player's total contributions to his team". [1] A player's WAR value is claimed to be the number of additional wins his team has achieved above the number of expected team wins ...
The Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score, commonly abbreviated JAWS, is a sabermetric baseball statistic developed to evaluate the strength of a player's career and merit for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Created by averaging a player's career WAR with their 7-year peak WAR, its "stated goal is to improve the Hall of Fame's standards ...
A good player off the bench, Naehring earned the starting 3B job in 1995 and hit .295 with an .838 OPS the rest of a career that was cut short by an elbow injury in 1997.
Barry Bonds. Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) [1] is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Bonds was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1986 to 1992 and the San Francisco Giants from 1993 to 2007. [2] He is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of ...
40–40 club. Alfonso Soriano, the fourth player to join the 40–40 club, commemorated the occasion in 2006 by retrieving the bag from second base after his 40th steal. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 40–40 club is the group of batters, currently six, who have collected 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season.
Ted Williams. Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the ...
Ryan holds the record for most no-hitters in a career, with seven. Sandy Koufax is second on the list with four no-hitters. The first black pitcher to toss a no-hitter was Sam Jones who did it for the Chicago Cubs in 1955. The first Latin pitcher to throw one was San Francisco Giant Juan Marichal in 1963.