1885 American Association Batting Leaders

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American Association Batting Leaders

Wins Above Replacement--all
1.	Morris • PIT	12.7
2.	Caruthers • STL	10.0
3.	Hecker • LOU	8.2
4.	Henderson • BAL	7.8
5.	Porter • BRO	6.3
6.	Mathews • PHA	5.7
7.	Browning • LOU	5.3
8.	Foutz • STL	5.0
9.	Orr • NYP	4.5
10.	Larkin • PHA	4.3

WAR Position Players
1.	Browning • LOU	5.3
2.	Orr • NYP	5.0
3.	Larkin • PHA	4.3
4.	Jones • CIN	4.0
5.	Nelson • NYP	3.9
6.	Stovey • PHA	3.8
7.	Smith • BRO	3.4
8.	Fennelly • CIN	3.3
9.	Phillips • BRO	2.9
10.	Barkley • STL	2.9

Offensive WAR
1.	Orr • NYP	5.4
2.	Browning • LOU	4.9
3.	Stovey • PHA	4.1
4.	Larkin • PHA	3.9
5.	Nelson • NYP	3.7
6.	Fennelly • CIN	3.7
7.	Jones • CIN	3.2
8.	Phillips • BRO	3.0
	Roseman • NYP	3.0
10.	Brown • PIT	2.9

Defensive WAR
1.	Smith • BRO	2.4
2.	Bushong • STL	1.7
3.	Milligan • PHA	1.6
4.	Smith • PIT	1.5
5.	Barkley • STL	1.4
6.	Hankinson • NYP	1.1
7.	Miller • LOU	1.0
8.	McPhee • CIN	0.9
9.	Scott • PIT	0.9
	Nelson • NYP	0.9

Batting Average
1.	Browning • LOU	.362
2.	Orr • NYP	.342
3.	Larkin • PHA	.329
4.	Jones • CIN	.322
5.	Stovey • PHA	.315
6.	Brown • PIT	.307
7.	Phillips • BRO	.302
8.	Coleman • PHA	.299
9.	Reilly • CIN	.297
10.	Brady • NYP	.295

On-Base%
1.	Browning • LOU	.393
2.	Larkin • PHA	.373
3.	Stovey • PHA	.371
4.	Brown • PIT	.366
5.	Phillips • BRO	.364
6.	Jones • CIN	.362
7.	Orr • NYP	.358
8.	Nelson • NYP	.353
9.	Hotaling • BRO	.350
10.	Coleman • PHA	.345

Slugging %
1.	Orr • NYP	.543
2.	Browning • LOU	.530
3.	Larkin • PHA	.525
4.	Stovey • PHA	.488
5.	Jones • CIN	.462
6.	Fennelly • CIN	.445
7.	Brown • PIT	.426
8.	Phillips • BRO	.422
9.	Wolf • LOU	.416
10.	Coleman • PHA	.415

On-Base Plus Slugging
1.	Browning • LOU	.923
2.	Orr • NYP	.901
3.	Larkin • PHA	.899
4.	Stovey • PHA	.858
5.	Jones • CIN	.824
6.	Brown • PIT	.792
7.	Phillips • BRO	.786
8.	Fennelly • CIN	.778
9.	Coleman • PHA	.760
10.	Roseman • NYP	.742

Games Played
1.	McClellan • BRO	112
	Carpenter • CIN	112
	Corkhill • CIN	112
	Fennelly • CIN	112
	Jones • CIN	112
	Browning • LOU	112
	Kerins • LOU	112
	McLaughlin • LOU	112
	Wolf • LOU	112
	Stovey • PHA	112
	Gleason • STL	112
	Nicol • STL	112
	Welch • STL	112

At Bats
1.	Jones • CIN	487
2.	Stovey • PHA	486
3.	Latham • STL	485
4.	Wolf • LOU	483
5.	Reilly • CIN	482
6.	Browning • LOU	481
7.	Carpenter • CIN	473
8.	Gleason • STL	472
9.	Sommer • BAL	471
10.	McClellan • BRO	464

Plate Appearances
1.	Stovey • PHA	529
2.	Jones • CIN	517
3.	Gleason • STL	516
4.	Latham • STL	508
5.	Browning • LOU	506
6.	Reilly • CIN	500
7.	Sommer • BAL	498
	McClellan • BRO	498
9.	Fennelly • CIN	495
	Wolf • LOU	495

Runs Scored
1.	Stovey • PHA	130
2.	Larkin • PHA	114
3.	Jones • CIN	108
4.	Browning • LOU	98
	Nelson • NYP	98
6.	Reilly • CIN	92
7.	Carpenter • CIN	89
8.	McClellan • BRO	85
	Smith • PIT	85
10.	Sommer • BAL	84
	Latham • STL	84
	Welch • STL	84

Hits
1.	Browning • LOU	174
2.	Jones • CIN	157
3.	Stovey • PHA	153
4.	Orr • NYP	152
5.	Larkin • PHA	149
6.	Reilly • CIN	143
7.	Wolf • LOU	141
8.	Brown • PIT	134
9.	Carpenter • CIN	131
10.	Brady • NYP	128

Total Bases
1.	Browning • LOU	255
2.	Orr • NYP	241
3.	Larkin • PHA	238
4.	Stovey • PHA	237
5.	Jones • CIN	225
6.	Fennelly • CIN	202
7.	Wolf • LOU	201
8.	Reilly • CIN	198
9.	Brown • PIT	186
10.	Roseman • NYP	167

Doubles
1.	Larkin • PHA	37
2.	Browning • LOU	34
3.	Orr • NYP	29
4.	Stovey • PHA	27
5.	Sommer • BAL	23
	Wolf • LOU	23
7.	McClellan • BRO	22
8.	Muldoon • BAL	20
9.	Jones • CIN	19
10.	Reilly • CIN	18
	Eden • PIT	18
	Barkley • STL	18
	Welch • STL	18

Triples
1.	Orr • NYP	21
2.	Kuehne • PIT	19
3.	Fennelly • CIN	17
	Jones • CIN	17
	Wolf • LOU	17
6.	Kerins • LOU	16
7.	Roseman • NYP	14
	Larkin • PHA	14
9.	Smith • PIT	13
10.	Brown • PIT	12

Home Runs
1.	Stovey • PHA	13
2.	Fennelly • CIN	10
3.	Browning • LOU	9
4.	Larkin • PHA	8
5.	Orr • NYP	6
6.	Burns • BAL	5
	Reilly • CIN	5
	Jones • CIN	5
9.	Smith • BRO	4
	Roseman • NYP	4
	Brown • PIT	4

Runs Batted In
1.	Fennelly • CIN	89
2.	Larkin • PHA	88
3.	Orr • NYP	77
4.	Stovey • PHA	75
5.	Browning • LOU	73
6.	Coleman • PHA	70
7.	Welch • STL	69
8.	Brown • PIT	68
9.	Phillips • BRO	63
10.	Smith • BRO	62

Bases on Balls
1.	Nelson • NYP	61
2.	Macullar • BAL	49
	Hotaling • BRO	49
4.	Stovey • PHA	39
5.	Stearns • BAL	38
	Fennelly • CIN	38
7.	Swartwood • BRO	36
8.	Brown • PIT	34
	Nicol • STL	34
10.	Mann • PIT	31

Singles
1.	Browning • LOU	121
2.	Jones • CIN	116
3.	Carpenter • CIN	109
	Reilly • CIN	109
5.	Brady • NYP	106
6.	Stovey • PHA	104
7.	Pinkney • BRO	103
8.	Brown • PIT	102
	Gleason • STL	102
10.	Wolf • LOU	100

Adjusted OPS+
1.	Orr • NYP	202
2.	Browning • LOU	190
3.	Larkin • PHA	175
4.	Stovey • PHA	163
5.	Jones • CIN	155
6.	Roseman • NYP	150
7.	Brown • PIT	149
8.	Phillips • BRO	146
9.	Brady • NYP	141
10.	Fennelly • CIN	141

Runs Created
1.	Browning • LOU	100
2.	Larkin • PHA	87
	Stovey • PHA	87
4.	Orr • NYP	85
5.	Jones • CIN	79
6.	Fennelly • CIN	67
7.	Brown • PIT	66
8.	Reilly • CIN	62
	Wolf • LOU	62
10.	Phillips • BRO	57

Adj. Batting Runs
1.	Browning • LOU	48
2.	Orr • NYP	45
3.	Larkin • PHA	39
4.	Stovey • PHA	36
5.	Jones • CIN	30
6.	Brown • PIT	25
7.	Roseman • NYP	22
8.	Phillips • BRO	22
9.	Fennelly • CIN	21
10.	Brady • NYP	20

Adj. Batting Wins
1.	Browning • LOU	5.3
2.	Orr • NYP	5.0
3.	Larkin • PHA	4.4
4.	Stovey • PHA	4.0
5.	Jones • CIN	3.3
6.	Brown • PIT	2.8
7.	Roseman • NYP	2.5
8.	Phillips • BRO	2.4
9.	Fennelly • CIN	2.3
10.	Brady • NYP	2.3

Extra Base Hits
1.	Larkin • PHA	59
2.	Orr • NYP	56
3.	Browning • LOU	53
4.	Stovey • PHA	49
5.	Fennelly • CIN	41
	Jones • CIN	41
	Wolf • LOU	41
8.	Reilly • CIN	34
9.	Smith • BRO	32
	Brown • PIT	32

Times On Base
1.	Browning • LOU	199
2.	Stovey • PHA	196
3.	Jones • CIN	187
4.	Larkin • PHA	181
5.	Brown • PIT	175
6.	Nelson • NYP	171
7.	Fennelly • CIN	165
8.	Orr • NYP	163
	Gleason • STL	163
10.	Reilly • CIN	161

Offensive Win %
1.	Browning • LOU	.846
2.	Orr • NYP	.817
3.	Larkin • PHA	.812
4.	Stovey • PHA	.785
5.	Jones • CIN	.757
6.	Brown • PIT	.724
7.	Phillips • BRO	.708
8.	Fennelly • CIN	.698
9.	Coleman • PHA	.694
10.	Reilly • CIN	.656

Hit By Pitch
1.	Gleason • STL	15
2.	Phillips • BRO	11
3.	Roseman • NYP	10
4.	Jones • CIN	9
5.	Field • 2TM	8
	Eden • PIT	8
7.	Welch • STL	7
	Robinson • STL	7
	Stricker • PHA	7
	Brown • PIT	7
	Reilly • CIN	7
	McPhee • CIN	7
	Corkhill • CIN	7
	Houck • PHA	7
	Clinton • CIN	7
	Pinkney • BRO	7

AB per HR
1.	Stovey • PHA	37.4
2.	Fennelly • CIN	45.4
3.	Browning • LOU	53.4
4.	Larkin • PHA	56.6
5.	Burns • BAL	64.2
6.	Orr • NYP	74.0
7.	Reilly • CIN	96.4
8.	Jones • CIN	97.4
9.	Roseman • NYP	102.5
10.	Smith • BRO	104.8

Outs Made
1.	Latham • STL	385
2.	Sommer • BAL	353
	Gleason • STL	353
4.	Kerins • LOU	345
5.	Carpenter • CIN	342
	Wolf • LOU	342
7.	McClellan • BRO	340
	Smith • PIT	340
9.	Reilly • CIN	339
10.	Nicol • STL	337

A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order.

For batting rate stats, generally a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances/G, 1.0 IP/G, 0.67 Gm and Chances/Team Game (fielding), 0.2 SB att/Team Game (catchers), and 0.1 SB att/Team Game (baserunners only since 1951), and 0.1 decision/G for single-season leaderboards generally needed for rate statistics. For pitcher fielding the minimums are reduced by a third. For LF, CF, RF fielding stats, we only have reliable data since 1901, so all leaders are since 1901. Explanation of min. requirements