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Ty Cobb is second all-time with a career batting average of .366. He won a record 11 batting titles in the American League from 1907–1909, 1911–1915 and 1917–1919. Oscar Charleston is third with a career batting average of .364. He is the only player to have won consecutive Triple Crowns, having done so in 1924 and 1925.
In baseball, batting average (AVG) is a measure of a batter's success rate in achieving a hit during an at bat. In Major League Baseball (MLB), it is calculated by dividing a player's hits by his at bats (AB). In MLB, a player in each league wins the "batting title" each season for having the highest batting average that year.
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.
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.
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.
Contents. List of Major League Baseball annual runs batted in leaders. Lou Gehrig briefly held the single-season RBI record with his 175 in 1927 before Hack Wilson topped this total with 191 in 1930. In total Gehrig was responsible for three of the nine seasons in which a player hit 170 or more RBI.
5 Steve Carlton (1972, 1974, 1980, 1982–1983) 5 Roger Clemens (1988, 1991, 1996–1998) 5 Justin Verlander (2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018) 4 Dizzy Dean (1932–1935) 4 Warren Spahn (1949–1952) 4 Sandy Koufax (1961, 1963, 1965–1966) § In 1998, because of a mid-season trade, Randy Johnson led Major League Baseball in strikeouts, but neither ...
Hugh Duffy set a National League record in 1894 that has never been matched with a .440 batting average. Nap Lajoie's .426 batting average in 1901 remains the highest in American League history. Shoeless Joe Jackson batted .408 in 1911, the highest mark ever set by a rookie in the American League. Josh Gibson is the most recent player to hit ...