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In MLB, a player in each league wins the "batting title" each season for having the highest batting average that year. [1] [2] The American League (AL) winner is known as the "Rod Carew American League Batting Champion", while the National League (NL) leader is designated the "Tony Gwynn National League Batting Champion".
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."
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Set a Major League record for a team with the most consecutive games to start a season trailing, with 30 games in a row on May 1 against the Miami Marlins. [82] Became the first team in Major League history to record a walk-off win with a pitch clock violation on June 22 against the Washington Nationals. [83] Chicago White Sox:
At the end of the 2024 season, the only active player with a .300 batting average is Jose Altuve at .306 (Freddie Freeman is at .300 by rounding, with his actual average at .2999). [76] The record was previously held by Cobb until the integration of Negro league statistics into Major League Baseball's record books on May 28, 2024.
At the end of each Major League Baseball season, the league leaders of various statistical categories are announced. [1] Leading either the American League or the National League in a particular category is referred to as a title. The following lists describe which players hold the most titles in a career for a particular category.
The list on this page is compiled from Baseball-Reference, which credits RBIs from 1907 to 1919 as recorded by baseball writer and historian Ernest Lanigan. One difference between the lists is that Babe Ruth is ranked third by Baseball Reference, but seventh by MLB, which does not count Ruth's 224 RBI compiled before 1920.
Pete Rose [2] [3] is the all-time leader in at bats with 14,053, and the only player in MLB history with more than 13,000 at bats. Only 30 MLB players have reached 10,000 career at bats. As of September 22, 2024, no active players are in the top 100 of career at-bats. The active leader is Andrew McCutchen in 169th with 7,862.