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Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox is the last player to hit .400 in the American League. Four players – Ed Delahanty , Ty Cobb , Rogers Hornsby and Oscar Charleston – have accomplished the feat in three different seasons, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Ross Barnes was the first player to bat .400 in a season, posting a .429 batting average in the National ...
A hitter with a .400 on-base percentage is considered to be great [2] and rare; [3] only 61 players in MLB history with at least 3,000 career plate appearances (PA) have maintained such an OBP. Left fielder Ted Williams, who played 19 seasons for the Boston Red Sox, has the highest career on-base percentage, .4817, in MLB history. [4]
Since 1941, no American League or National League player has hit .400 or above—the highest single-season average in those leagues has been .394 by Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres in 1994. [4] Wade Boggs hit .401 over a 162-game span with Boston from June 9, 1985, to June 6, 1986, [8] but never hit above .368 for an MLB season. [9]
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." A point (or percentage point) is understood to be .001.
Royals star Bobby Witt Jr. has played in exactly 400 career games, and no one in MLB ... no one in Major League Baseball had ever had at least 60 home runs, 100 stolen bases and 25 triples in his ...
Shohei Ohtani became the first player in 23 years and only 19th in MLB history to reach 400 total bases in a season when the Dodgers clinched the National League West title.
No players at all had 200 hits in 2013, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022 seasons, in 2023 only three players had 200 hits, and in 2019, only Whit Merrifield and Rafael Devers did so. Going into the 2025 season, Luis Arráez is the only player with even two consecutive 200-hit seasons. [61]
The congratulatory video shown to Kenley Jansen in the clubhouse after his 400th save included: Joe Torre, AJ Ellis, Clayton Kershaw, Ozzie Albies, Russell Martin, Austin Barnes, Eric Gagne ...