1887 American Association Batting Leaders

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American Association Batting Leaders

Wins Above Replacement--all
1.	Kilroy • BAL	12.1
2.	Smith • CIN	10.8
3.	Caruthers • STL	10.7
4.	Ramsey • LOU	7.8
5.	Mullane • CIN	7.6
6.	O'Neill • STL	6.9
7.	Seward • PHA	6.4
8.	Browning • LOU	6.0
9.	King • STL	5.3
10.	Lyons • PHA	5.1

WAR Position Players
1.	O'Neill • STL	6.9
2.	Browning • LOU	6.0
3.	Lyons • PHA	5.1
4.	Burns • BAL	5.0
5.	Caruthers • STL	3.9
6.	Robinson • STL	3.5
7.	Reilly • CIN	3.5
8.	McPhee • CIN	3.4
9.	Davis • BAL	3.3
10.	Latham • STL	3.3

Offensive WAR
1.	O'Neill • STL	6.7
2.	Burns • BAL	6.2
3.	Browning • LOU	6.1
4.	Lyons • PHA	5.8
5.	Robinson • STL	3.8
6.	Caruthers • STL	3.7
7.	Davis • BAL	3.5
8.	Radford • NYP	3.4
9.	Fennelly • CIN	3.1
10.	Griffin • BAL	3.0

Defensive WAR
1.	Smith • BRO	1.2
2.	Latham • STL	1.2
	McPhee • CIN	1.2
4.	Boyle • STL	1.1
5.	Pinkney • BRO	1.0
6.	Holbert • NYP	0.9
7.	Trott • BAL	0.9
8.	Corkhill • CIN	0.8
9.	Tucker • BAL	0.8
10.	Fennelly • CIN	0.8

Batting Average
1.	O'Neill • STL	.435
2.	Browning • LOU	.402
3.	Orr • NYP	.368
4.	Lyons • PHA	.367
5.	Caruthers • STL	.357
6.	Foutz • STL	.357
7.	Burns • BAL	.341
8.	Comiskey • STL	.335
9.	Hecker • LOU	.319
10.	Latham • STL	.316

On-Base%
1.	O'Neill • STL	.490
2.	Browning • LOU	.464
3.	Caruthers • STL	.463
4.	Robinson • STL	.445
5.	Lyons • PHA	.421
6.	Mack • LOU	.415
7.	Burns • BAL	.414
8.	Orr • NYP	.408
9.	Radford • NYP	.403
10.	Foutz • STL	.393

Slugging %
1.	O'Neill • STL	.691
2.	Caruthers • STL	.547
3.	Browning • LOU	.547
4.	Lyons • PHA	.523
5.	Burns • BAL	.519
6.	Orr • NYP	.516
7.	Foutz • STL	.508
8.	Davis • BAL	.485
9.	Reilly • CIN	.477
10.	Kerins • LOU	.443

On-Base Plus Slugging
1.	O'Neill • STL	1.180
2.	Browning • LOU	1.011
3.	Caruthers • STL	1.010
4.	Lyons • PHA	.943
5.	Burns • BAL	.933
6.	Orr • NYP	.924
7.	Foutz • STL	.901
8.	Robinson • STL	.850
9.	Davis • BAL	.838
10.	Reilly • CIN	.829

Games Played
1.	Burns • BAL	140
	Purcell • BAL	140
3.	Pinkney • BRO	138
4.	Wolf • LOU	137
	Lyons • PHA	137
	McGarr • PHA	137
7.	Griffin • BAL	136
	Tucker • BAL	136
	McClellan • BRO	136
	Werrick • LOU	136
	Latham • STL	136

At Bats
1.	Latham • STL	627
2.	Gleason • STL	598
3.	Poorman • PHA	585
4.	Pinkney • BRO	580
5.	Lyons • PHA	570
6.	Wolf • LOU	569
7.	Purcell • BAL	567
8.	Collins • LOU	559
9.	Burns • BAL	551
	Reilly • CIN	551

Plate Appearances
1.	Latham • STL	677
2.	Pinkney • BRO	647
	Gleason • STL	647
4.	McClellan • BRO	634
5.	Poorman • PHA	630
6.	Purcell • BAL	623
	Lyons • PHA	623
8.	Burns • BAL	619
9.	Fennelly • CIN	612
10.	Wolf • LOU	611

Runs Scored
1.	O'Neill • STL	167
2.	Latham • STL	163
3.	Griffin • BAL	142
4.	Poorman • PHA	140
5.	Comiskey • STL	139
6.	McPhee • CIN	137
	Browning • LOU	137
8.	Gleason • STL	135
9.	Pinkney • BRO	133
	Fennelly • CIN	133

Hits
1.	O'Neill • STL	225
2.	Browning • LOU	220
3.	Lyons • PHA	209
4.	Latham • STL	198
5.	Burns • BAL	188
6.	Comiskey • STL	180
7.	Gleason • STL	172
8.	Reilly • CIN	170
9.	Corkhill • CIN	168
10.	Collins • LOU	162

Total Bases
1.	O'Neill • STL	357
2.	Browning • LOU	299
3.	Lyons • PHA	298
4.	Burns • BAL	286
5.	Reilly • CIN	263
6.	Latham • STL	259
7.	Davis • BAL	235
8.	O'Brien • NYP	228
9.	Griffin • BAL	227
10.	Corkhill • CIN	224
	Comiskey • STL	224

Doubles
1.	O'Neill • STL	52
2.	Lyons • PHA	43
3.	Reilly • CIN	35
	Browning • LOU	35
	Latham • STL	35
6.	Phillips • BRO	34
7.	Burns • BAL	33
8.	Griffin • BAL	32
	Robinson • STL	32
	Welch • STL	32

Triples
1.	Burns • BAL	19
	Davis • BAL	19
	McPhee • CIN	19
	Kerins • LOU	19
	Poorman • PHA	19
	O'Neill • STL	19
7.	Smith • BRO	16
	Fennelly • CIN	16
	Browning • LOU	16
10.	Reilly • CIN	14
	Lyons • PHA	14

Home Runs
1.	O'Neill • STL	14
2.	Reilly • CIN	10
3.	Burns • BAL	9
4.	Davis • BAL	8
	Caruthers • STL	8
	Fennelly • CIN	8
7.	Werrick • LOU	7
8.	Tucker • BAL	6
	Lyons • PHA	6
10.	Kerins • LOU	5
	Jones • 2TM	5
	Seward • PHA	5
	O'Brien • NYP	5
	Corkhill • CIN	5

Runs Batted In
1.	O'Neill • STL	123
2.	Browning • LOU	118
3.	Davis • BAL	109
4.	Foutz • STL	108
	Welch • STL	108
6.	Comiskey • STL	103
7.	Wolf • LOU	102
	Lyons • PHA	102
9.	Phillips • BRO	101
10.	Burns • BAL	99
	Werrick • LOU	99

Bases on Balls
1.	Radford • NYP	106
2.	Robinson • STL	92
3.	Nicol • CIN	86
4.	Mack • LOU	83
5.	Fennelly • CIN	82
6.	McClellan • BRO	80
7.	McTamany • BRO	76
8.	Caruthers • STL	66
9.	Burns • BAL	63
	Sommer • BAL	63

Strikeouts
1.	Fennelly • CIN	81
2.	McGarr • PHA	67
3.	Mack • LOU	63
4.	Boyle • STL	51
5.	Werrick • LOU	49
	Robinson • STL	49
7.	Burns • BAL	47
	Nicol • CIN	47
9.	Hotaling • CLE	46
	Poorman • PHA	46

Stolen Bases
1.	Nicol • CIN	138
2.	Latham • STL	129
3.	Comiskey • STL	117
4.	Browning • LOU	103
5.	McPhee • CIN	95
6.	Griffin • BAL	94
7.	Welch • STL	89
8.	Purcell • BAL	88
	Poorman • PHA	88
10.	Stricker • CLE	86

Singles
1.	Browning • LOU	165
2.	Gleason • STL	152
3.	Latham • STL	151
4.	Comiskey • STL	149
5.	Lyons • PHA	146
6.	O'Neill • STL	140
7.	Corkhill • CIN	133
8.	Collins • LOU	131
9.	McGarr • PHA	128
10.	Burns • BAL	127

Adjusted OPS+
1.	O'Neill • STL	213
2.	Browning • LOU	177
3.	Caruthers • STL	169
4.	Burns • BAL	164
5.	Lyons • PHA	162
6.	Orr • NYP	161
7.	Foutz • STL	139
8.	Davis • BAL	137
9.	Griffin • BAL	128
10.	Robinson • STL	128

Runs Created
1.	O'Neill • STL	173
2.	Browning • LOU	137
3.	Lyons • PHA	124
4.	Burns • BAL	117
5.	Latham • STL	94
6.	Caruthers • STL	91
7.	Reilly • CIN	88
8.	Foutz • STL	84
9.	Griffin • BAL	83
10.	Davis • BAL	82
	Comiskey • STL	82

Adj. Batting Runs
1.	O'Neill • STL	82
2.	Browning • LOU	60
3.	Burns • BAL	48
4.	Lyons • PHA	48
5.	Caruthers • STL	39
6.	Orr • NYP	27
7.	Robinson • STL	26
8.	Foutz • STL	21
9.	Griffin • BAL	21
10.	Mack • LOU	21

Adj. Batting Wins
1.	O'Neill • STL	7.8
2.	Browning • LOU	5.8
3.	Burns • BAL	4.7
4.	Lyons • PHA	4.7
5.	Caruthers • STL	3.8
6.	Orr • NYP	2.6
7.	Robinson • STL	2.5
8.	Foutz • STL	2.1
9.	Griffin • BAL	2.1
10.	Mack • LOU	2.1

Extra Base Hits
1.	O'Neill • STL	85
2.	Lyons • PHA	63
3.	Burns • BAL	61
4.	Reilly • CIN	59
5.	Browning • LOU	55
6.	Davis • BAL	50
7.	Griffin • BAL	48
	O'Brien • NYP	48
9.	Phillips • BRO	47
	Stovey • PHA	47
	Latham • STL	47

Times On Base
1.	Browning • LOU	283
2.	O'Neill • STL	280
3.	Lyons • PHA	262
4.	Burns • BAL	256
5.	Latham • STL	248
6.	Radford • NYP	241
7.	Robinson • STL	240
8.	Mack • LOU	235
9.	McClellan • BRO	230
10.	Fennelly • CIN	226

Offensive Win %
1.	O'Neill • STL	.907
2.	Browning • LOU	.839
3.	Caruthers • STL	.819
4.	Lyons • PHA	.783
5.	Orr • NYP	.771
6.	Burns • BAL	.763
7.	Foutz • STL	.748
8.	Robinson • STL	.665
9.	Davis • BAL	.660
10.	Hecker • LOU	.656

Hit By Pitch
1.	Tucker • BAL	29
2.	Robinson • STL	17
3.	Reilly • CIN	15
	Mann • 2TM	15
5.	McTamany • BRO	12
6.	Welch • STL	11
7.	Purcell • BAL	10
	Poorman • PHA	10
9.	Jones • 2TM	9
	Roseman • 3TM	9

Power-Speed #
1.	O'Neill • STL	19.1
2.	Reilly • CIN	16.7
3.	Burns • BAL	15.6
4.	Fennelly • CIN	14.4
5.	Davis • BAL	13.8
	Caruthers • STL	13.8
7.	Werrick • LOU	12.3
8.	Tucker • BAL	11.2
9.	Lyons • PHA	11.1
10.	Kerins • LOU	9.1
	O'Brien • NYP	9.1

AB per SO
1.	Corkhill • CIN	54.1
2.	Comiskey • STL	48.9
3.	Bierbauer • PHA	44.2
4.	Larkin • PHA	38.2
5.	Lyons • PHA	35.6
6.	Stricker • CLE	33.4
7.	Griffin • BAL	31.3
8.	Trott • BAL	30.0
9.	Wolf • LOU	29.9
10.	Pinkney • BRO	29.0

AB per HR
1.	O'Neill • STL	36.9
2.	Caruthers • STL	45.5
3.	Reilly • CIN	55.1
4.	Davis • BAL	60.6
5.	Burns • BAL	61.2
6.	Fennelly • CIN	65.8
7.	Werrick • LOU	76.1
8.	Tebeau • CIN	79.5
9.	Jones • 2TM	80.0
10.	Tucker • BAL	87.3

Outs Made
1.	Poorman • PHA	430
2.	Latham • STL	429
3.	Gleason • STL	426
4.	Purcell • BAL	425
	Pinkney • BRO	425
6.	Wolf • LOU	409
7.	McClellan • BRO	404
8.	Collins • LOU	397
9.	Stricker • CLE	393
	Welch • STL	393

rOBA
1.	O'Neill • STL	.519
2.	Browning • LOU	.477
3.	Caruthers • STL	.472
4.	Lyons • PHA	.440
5.	Burns • BAL	.433
6.	Robinson • STL	.425
7.	Orr • NYP	.417
8.	Foutz • STL	.406
9.	Hecker • LOU	.391
10.	Mack • LOU	.386

Rbat+
1.	O'Neill • STL	188
2.	Browning • LOU	165
3.	Caruthers • STL	156
4.	Burns • BAL	152
5.	Lyons • PHA	150
6.	Orr • NYP	148
7.	Robinson • STL	131
8.	Foutz • STL	128
9.	Davis • BAL	126
10.	Mack • LOU	125

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