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  2. Batting average (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    Batting average does not take into account bases on balls (walks) or power, whereas other statistics such as on-base percentage and slugging percentage have been specifically designed to measure such concepts. Adding these statistics together form a player's on-base plus slugging or "OPS". This is commonly seen as a much better, though not ...

  3. Baseball statistics - Wikipedia

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    Baseball statistics include a variety of metrics used to evaluate player and team performance in the sport of baseball. Because the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and player activity is characteristically distinguishable individually, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and thus both compiling and compiling statistics .

  4. List of Major League Baseball career batting average leaders

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    Different sources of baseball records present somewhat differing lists of career batting average leaders. Until the incorporation of statistics from Negro league baseball into major-league records in 2024, Ty Cobb was the consensus leader. Subsequently, he was supplanted by Josh Gibson on the official MLB leaderboard. [1]

  5. Batting (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. The three main goals of batters are to become a baserunner , to drive runners home or to advance runners along the bases for others to drive home, but the techniques ...

  6. Category:Major League Baseball statistics - Wikipedia

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    List of Major League Baseball players with a .400 batting average in a season; List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their final major league at bat; List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat; List of Major League Baseball single-inning home run leaders

  7. List of Major League Baseball leaders - Wikipedia

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    List of Major League Baseball pitchers who have thrown an immaculate inning; List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle; List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise; List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat

  8. List of Major League Baseball career records - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of Major League Baseball batting champions - Wikipedia

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    Ty Cobb won more batting titles than any other player, though the precise number is unclear because of the race in the 1910 American League. 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).