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His total number of bases (388) divided by his total at-bats (458) is .847, which constitutes his slugging percentage for the season. [5] Ruth's 1920 figure set a record in Major League Baseball (MLB), which stood until 2001 when Barry Bonds achieved 411 bases in 476 at-bats for a slugging percentage of .863.
The ability of a player both to get on base and to hit for power, two important offensive skills, are represented. An OPS of .800 or higher in Major League Baseball puts the player in the upper echelon of hitters. Typically, the league leader in OPS will score near, and sometimes above, the 1.000 mark.
WHIP near 1.000 or lower over the course of a season will often rank among the league leaders in Major League Baseball (MLB).. The lowest single-season WHIP in MLB history through 2024 is held by George Walker of the 1940 Kansas City Monarchs, with a WHIP of 0.7347 which broke the previous record of 0.7692 of Guy Hecker of the 1882 Louisville Eclipse. [3]
The NL was joined by the American League (AL) in 1903; together the two constitute contemporary Major League Baseball. New advances in both statistical analysis and technology made possible by the " PC revolution " of the 1980s and 1990s have driven teams and fans to evaluate players by an ever-increasing set of new statistics, which hold them ...
Josh Gibson hit .466 in 1943 while playing for the Homestead Grays of the Negro National League, one of several leagues within Negro league baseball that are now recognized by MLB. [10] 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 ...
Cook's 1964 book Percentage Baseball was one of the first of its kind. [4] At first, most organized baseball teams and professionals dismissed Cook's work as meaningless. The idea of a science of baseball statistics began to achieve legitimacy in 1977 when Bill James began releasing Baseball Abstracts, his annual compendium of baseball data.
Negro Leagues statistics will officially become part of Major League historical record on Wednesday. The more than 2,300 players who played in the seven iterations of the Negro Leagues from 1920 ...
James's criticism has also stemmed from the application and usage of WAR in recent years. In the 2017 Major League Baseball season, there was debate similar to 2012 regarding who should be the recipient of the American League Most Valuable Player Award: Jose Altuve or Aaron Judge. Judge outranked Altuve in FanGraphs' calculation of WAR that ...