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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. Record.
All three were banned by Kuhn, and all three were later reinstated. By the time of Kuhn's tenure, players had organized the Major League Baseball Players Association and negotiated the first Basic Agreement with the owners. Among other things the Agreement provided, for the first time, an independent process through which active players could ...
Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [ a] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714, and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only ...
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] Williams led the American League (AL) in on-base percentage in twelve seasons, the most such seasons for any player in the major leagues. [ 4][ 5] Barry Bonds led the National League (NL) in ten seasons ...
The following list is of the top 100 pitchers in career strikeouts in Major League Baseball. In baseball, a strikeout occurs when the batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. Strikeouts are associated with dominance on the part of the pitcher and failure on the part of the batter. Nolan Ryan [1] [2] [3] has the most career ...
Both lists are current through the games of August 9 of the 2024 Major League Baseball season . Connie Mack is the all-time leader in wins (3,731) and losses (3,948). Bruce Bochy is the active wins leader (2,147) and is ninth in overall wins. Vic Harris, who was a manager in the segregated Negro leagues, has the highest percentage at 547–278 ...
A strikeout is a statistic recorded for both pitchers and batters, and is usually denoted by the letter K, or sometimes by the initialism SO. [ 1] Reggie Jackson [ 2][ 3][ 4] holds the record for the most career strikeouts by a batter with 2,597. [ 5] Jim Thome [ 6] (2,548), Adam Dunn [ 7] (2,379), Sammy Sosa [ 8] (2,306), Alex Rodriguez [ 9 ...
Mariano Rivera [ 2][ 3][ 4] is the all-time leader in saves with 652. Rivera and Trevor Hoffman [ 5] are the only pitchers in MLB history to save more than 600 career games. Lee Smith, [ 6] Kenley Jansen, [ 7] Craig Kimbrel, [ 8] Francisco Rodríguez, [ 9] John Franco, [ 10] and Billy Wagner [ 11] are the only other pitchers to save more than ...