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The last Major League Baseball (MLB) player to do so, with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting championship, was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, who hit .406 in 1941. [4] Note that batting averages are rounded ; [ 5 ] entering the final day of the 1941 season, Williams was at 179-for-448, which is .39955 and would have been ...
Longest Hitting streak: Joe Dimaggio: 56 Highest batting average: Josh Gibson.372 Most singles: Pete Rose: 3,215 [1] Most doubles: Tris Speaker: 792 [2] Most triples: Sam Crawford: 309 [3] Most home runs: Barry Bonds: 762 [4] Most grand slams: Alex Rodriguez: 25 Most home runs by a pitcher Wes Ferrell: 37 Most grand slams by a pitcher shared by ...
The MLB's bat-tracking data shows that Shohei Ohtani's swing generates the most bat speed for the Dodgers, while Mookie Betts' swing squares up the most and Freddie Freeman's swing is the shortest.
Rod Carew had a .408 BABIP in 1977, one of the best single-season BABIPs since 1945. [1]In baseball statistics, batting average on balls in play (abbreviated BABIP) is a measurement of how often batted balls result in hits, excluding home runs. [2]
Highest batting average Tetelo Vargas.471 1943 [1] Most singles Ichiro Suzuki: 225 2004 [2] Most doubles Earl Webb: 67 1931 [3] Most triples Chief Wilson: 36 1912 [4] Most home runs Barry Bonds: 73 2001: Most runs batted in Hack Wilson: 191 1930 [5] Most hits Ichiro Suzuki: 262 2004 [6] Most runs scored Billy Hamilton: 198 1894 [7] Highest on ...
Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game. New York: Copernicus Books, 2001. ISBN 0-387-98816-5. A book on new statistics for baseball. MLB Record Book by: MLB.com; Alan Schwarz, The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics (New York: St. Martin's, 2005). ISBN 0-312-32223-2.
Giancarlo Stanton held the MLB record for highest exit velocity at 122.2 miles per hour (196.7 km/h) from 2015 to 2022. In baseball statistics, exit velocity (EV) is the estimated speed at which a batted ball is travelling as it is coming off the player's bat.
2 Batting. 3 Pitching. 4 Baserunning. 5 Other. 6 See also. ... List of Major League Baseball records includes the following lists of the superlative statistics of ...