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The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
The all-time best single season record belongs to the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who posted baseball's only perfect record at 67–0 (57–0 against National Association of Base Ball Players clubs) in 1869, prior to Major League baseball.
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, 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.
List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game records; List of Major League Baseball attendance records; List of Major League Baseball postseason records. List of World Series career records; List of World Series single-game records; List of World Series single-series records
Record Player # Season Most wins Old Hoss Radbourn: 60 1884: Most losses John Coleman: 48 1883 Lowest E.R.A. Eugene Bremer: 0.711 1937: Most strikeouts Matt Kilroy: 513 1886: Most shutouts George Bradley Pete Alexander: 16 1876 1916: Most innings pitched Will White: 680 1879: Most complete games Will White 75 1879: Lowest WHIP Hilton Smith.6176 ...
In 1965, his first year back in Cleveland, Colavito led the Amercian League in games played (162), RBIs (108) and walks (93) and became the first outfielder in American League history to finish a ...
Cy Young, the all-time leader in career wins. This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this ...
Why the Yankees are winning at a historic rate: 5 players, stats and trends that explain MLB's best team. Zach Crizer. ... and the Yankees are on pace to challenge MLB's all-time wins record.