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This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) players to have accumulated a value of 50 or more career Wins Above Replacement (WAR) using the Baseball Reference calculation. [a] As of the conclusion of the 2024 Major League Baseball season, 320 players have reached a WAR value of 50.0 or higher, as detailed on this list.
WAR is recognized as an official stat by Major League Baseball and by the Elias Sports Bureau, and ESPN publishes the Baseball-Reference version of WAR on its own statistics pages for position players and pitchers. [2] The importance of WAR compared to typical statistical categories has been the subject of ongoing debate.
List of Major League Baseball career fielding errors as a first baseman leaders; List of Major League Baseball career fielding errors as a second baseman leaders; List of Major League Baseball career fielding errors as a third baseman leaders; List of Major League Baseball career fielding errors as a shortstop leaders
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 ...
19 of the league pennants are NL pennants, and the other four are AA pennants. [1] Their 11 World Series titles represent the most in the NL and are second in MLB only to the New York Yankees' 27. Notable players have defined, in part, the Cardinals' success and history. Stan Musial owns the most career batting records with 22.
In 2020, Major League Baseball designated the following seven Negro leagues from 1920–1948 as major leagues: [2] Negro National League I (NNL I) (1920–1931) Eastern Colored League (ECL) (1923–1928) American Negro League (ANL) (1929) East–West League (EWL) (1932) Negro Southern League (NSL) (1932) Negro National League II (NNL II) (1933 ...
Babe Ruth was the first player to reach 600 home runs. He set a career home run mark of 714 that stood until 1974. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 600 home run club is a group of batters who have hit 600 or more regular-season home runs in their careers. [1]
[169] [170] However, because Major League Baseball Enterprises, Inc. does have some official legal rights and responsibilities concerning major league baseball – enforcing copyrights on team logos, making the official rules used by the teams, and so forth – and because Major League Baseball does empower the Elias Sports Bureau with ...