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Records Player # Season Refs Games Maury Wills: 165 1962: Highest batting average Tetelo Vargas.471 1943 [1]Most singles Ichiro Suzuki: 225 2004 [2]Most doubles
The highest single-season mark for a right-handed hitter was 1.2449 by Rogers Hornsby in 1925, 13th on the all-time list. Since 1935, the highest single-season OPS for a right-hander is 1.2224 by Mark McGwire in 1998, which was 16th all-time. [6]
[4] [5] Barry Bonds led the National League (NL) in ten seasons, a NL record. [5] [6] Williams also posted the then-highest single-season on-base percentage of .5528 in 1941, a record that stood for 61 years until Bonds broke it with a .5817 OBP in 2002. [7] Bonds broke his own record in 2004, setting the current single-season mark of .6094. [7]
Babe Ruth, the all-time leader in OPS. On-base plus slugging (OPS) is a sabermetric baseball statistic calculated as the sum of a player's on-base percentage and slugging average. [1] The statistic reflects two important offensive skills: the ability of a player to get on base and to hit for power. Babe Ruth is the all-time leader with a career ...
Josh Gibson now leads in several major statistical categories after MLB integrated Negro League statistics into its historical record. Here’s what MLB’s records look like now that it ...
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.
His single-season records set in the 1930s and '40s also rank as some of the highest of all time. Image: 1932 Pittsburgh Crawfords (Mark Rucker / Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images file)
The Brewers' 15-8 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks moved Milwaukee's magic number to clinch the National League Central Division to three.