1877 Major League Batting Leaders

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Major League Batting Leaders

Wins Above Replacement--all
1.	Devlin • LOU	13.4
2.	Bond • BSN	11.5
3.	White • BSN	3.4
4.	Nichols • STL	3.0
5.	Bradley • CHC	2.8
6.	O'Rourke • BSN	2.6
7.	Start • HAR	2.6
8.	Jones • 2TM	2.3
9.	Clapp • STL	2.3
10.	Anson • CHC	2.2

WAR Position Players
1.	White • BSN	3.4
2.	O'Rourke • BSN	2.6
3.	Start • HAR	2.6
4.	Jones • 2TM	2.3
5.	Clapp • STL	2.3
6.	Anson • CHC	2.2
7.	Gerhardt • LOU	2.1
8.	McVey • CHC	2.1
	Cassidy • HAR	2.1
10.	Peters • CHC	1.9

Offensive WAR
1.	White • BSN	3.4
2.	Cassidy • HAR	2.6
3.	O'Rourke • BSN	2.5
4.	Start • HAR	2.4
5.	McVey • CHC	2.4
6.	Manning • CIN	2.3
7.	Jones • 2TM	2.3
8.	Clapp • STL	2.2
9.	Anson • CHC	2.2
10.	Pike • CIN	2.1

Defensive WAR
1.	Gerhardt • LOU	1.2
2.	Ferguson • HAR	1.1
3.	Force • STL	1.0
4.	Shafer • LOU	0.9
5.	Peters • CHC	0.8
6.	Snyder • LOU	0.7
7.	Craver • LOU	0.7
8.	Wright • BSN	0.7
9.	Burdock • HAR	0.6
	Allison • HAR	0.6

Batting Average
1.	White • BSN	.387
2.	Cassidy • HAR	.378
3.	McVey • CHC	.368
4.	O'Rourke • BSN	.362
5.	Anson • CHC	.337
6.	Start • HAR	.332
7.	Hall • LOU	.323
8.	Clapp • STL	.318
9.	Manning • CIN	.317
10.	Peters • CHC	.317

On-Base%
1.	O'Rourke • BSN	.407
2.	White • BSN	.405
3.	McVey • CHC	.387
4.	Cassidy • HAR	.386
5.	Anson • CHC	.360
6.	Jones • 2TM	.353
7.	Hall • LOU	.352
8.	Start • HAR	.347
9.	Clapp • STL	.338
10.	Dorgan • STL	.331

Slugging %
1.	White • BSN	.545
2.	Jones • 2TM	.471
3.	Cassidy • HAR	.458
4.	McVey • CHC	.455
5.	O'Rourke • BSN	.445
6.	Hall • LOU	.439
7.	Manning • CIN	.437
8.	York • HAR	.422
9.	Pike • CIN	.420
10.	Anson • CHC	.420

On-Base Plus Slugging
1.	White • BSN	.950
2.	O'Rourke • BSN	.852
3.	Cassidy • HAR	.844
4.	McVey • CHC	.842
5.	Jones • 2TM	.824
6.	Hall • LOU	.791
7.	Anson • CHC	.779
8.	Manning • CIN	.767
9.	Start • HAR	.745
10.	Pike • CIN	.741

Games Played
1.	Morrill • BSN	61
	O'Rourke • BSN	61
	Bond • BSN	61
	Crowley • LOU	61
	Devlin • LOU	61
	Hall • LOU	61
	Wright • BSN	61
	Shafer • LOU	61
	Snyder • LOU	61
10.	Hines • CHC	60
	Spalding • CHC	60
	McVey • CHC	60
	Peters • CHC	60
	Clapp • STL	60
	Start • HAR	60
	Cassidy • HAR	60
	Carey • HAR	60
	Dorgan • STL	60

At Bats
1.	Wright • BSN	290
2.	Latham • LOU	278
3.	Burdock • HAR	277
4.	Carey • HAR	274
5.	Leonard • BSN	272
6.	Start • HAR	271
7.	Hall • LOU	269
8.	Devlin • LOU	268
9.	Dorgan • STL	266
	McVey • CHC	266
	White • BSN	266

Plate Appearances
1.	Wright • BSN	299
2.	O'Rourke • BSN	285
3.	Latham • LOU	283
4.	Hall • LOU	281
5.	Burdock • HAR	279
6.	Leonard • BSN	277
	Start • HAR	277
8.	Dorgan • STL	275
	Devlin • LOU	275
10.	White • BSN	274
	McVey • CHC	274
	Carey • HAR	274

Runs Scored
1.	O'Rourke • BSN	68
2.	Wright • BSN	58
	McVey • CHC	58
4.	Start • HAR	55
5.	Hall • LOU	53
	Jones • 2TM	53
7.	Anson • CHC	52
8.	White • BSN	51
9.	Morrill • BSN	47
	Clapp • STL	47
	Manning • CIN	47

Hits
1.	White • BSN	103
2.	McVey • CHC	98
3.	O'Rourke • BSN	96
4.	Cassidy • HAR	95
5.	Start • HAR	90
6.	Hall • LOU	87
7.	Anson • CHC	86
8.	Peters • CHC	84
9.	Dorgan • STL	82
10.	Latham • LOU	81
	Clapp • STL	81

Total Bases
1.	White • BSN	145
2.	McVey • CHC	121
3.	Hall • LOU	118
	O'Rourke • BSN	118
5.	Cassidy • HAR	115
6.	Jones • 2TM	113
7.	Pike • CIN	110
	Manning • CIN	110
9.	Start • HAR	108
10.	Anson • CHC	107

Doubles
1.	Anson • CHC	19
2.	Manning • CIN	16
	York • HAR	16
4.	Hall • LOU	15
	Wright • BSN	15
6.	O'Rourke • BSN	14
	White • BSN	14
8.	Brown • BSN	12
	Jones • 2TM	12
	Pike • CIN	12

Triples
1.	White • BSN	11
2.	Jones • 2TM	10
3.	Brown • BSN	8
	Hall • LOU	8
5.	Dorgan • STL	7
	Manning • CIN	7
	Battin • STL	7
	McVey • CHC	7
	Hines • CHC	7
	York • HAR	7

Home Runs
1.	Pike • CIN	4
2.	Shafer • LOU	3
3.	White • BSN	2
	Snyder • LOU	2
	Jones • 2TM	2
6.	Brown • BSN	1
	Murnane • BSN	1
	Carey • HAR	1
	Larkin • HAR	1
	Start • HAR	1
	York • HAR	1
	Crowley • LOU	1
	Devlin • LOU	1
	Gerhardt • LOU	1
	Hague • LOU	1
	Battin • STL	1

Runs Batted In
1.	White • BSN	49
2.	Peters • CHC	41
3.	Sutton • BSN	39
4.	Jones • 2TM	38
5.	York • HAR	37
6.	McVey • CHC	36
	Manning • CIN	36
8.	Ferguson • HAR	35
	Wright • BSN	35
	Gerhardt • LOU	35
	Spalding • CHC	35

Bases on Balls
1.	O'Rourke • BSN	20
2.	Jones • 2TM	15
3.	Hall • LOU	12
	Booth • CIN	12
5.	Force • STL	11
6.	Pike • CIN	9
	Dorgan • STL	9
	Shafer • LOU	9
	Anson • CHC	9
	Wright • BSN	9

Strikeouts
1.	Brown • BSN	33
2.	Devlin • LOU	27
3.	Jones • 2TM	25
4.	Larkin • HAR	23
5.	Blong • STL	22
6.	Dehlman • STL	21
7.	Hall • LOU	19
	Bradley • CHC	19
9.	Hague • LOU	18
10.	Shafer • LOU	17
	Battin • STL	17

Singles
1.	McVey • CHC	82
2.	Start • HAR	80
	Cassidy • HAR	80
4.	O'Rourke • BSN	78
5.	White • BSN	76
6.	Leonard • BSN	73
7.	Peters • CHC	71
8.	Clapp • STL	69
9.	Morrill • BSN	67
10.	Dorgan • STL	66
	Burdock • HAR	66
	Anson • CHC	66

Adjusted OPS+
1.	White • BSN	193
2.	Cassidy • HAR	178
3.	Jones • 2TM	171
4.	O'Rourke • BSN	165
5.	Manning • CIN	153
6.	McVey • CHC	153
7.	Start • HAR	146
8.	Pike • CIN	145
9.	Anson • CHC	134
10.	Clapp • STL	134

Runs Created
1.	White • BSN	59
2.	O'Rourke • BSN	48
3.	McVey • CHC	47
4.	Cassidy • HAR	44
5.	Hall • LOU	42
6.	Jones • 2TM	40
7.	Anson • CHC	39
8.	Start • HAR	37
9.	Manning • CIN	36
10.	Dorgan • STL	35
	Pike • CIN	35

Adj. Batting Runs
1.	White • BSN	27
2.	O'Rourke • BSN	21
3.	Cassidy • HAR	21
4.	Jones • 2TM	19
5.	McVey • CHC	16
6.	Manning • CIN	15
7.	Pike • CIN	13
8.	Start • HAR	13
9.	Anson • CHC	11
10.	Hall • LOU	11

Adj. Batting Wins
1.	White • BSN	2.9
2.	O'Rourke • BSN	2.2
3.	Cassidy • HAR	2.2
4.	Jones • 2TM	2.0
5.	McVey • CHC	1.7
6.	Manning • CIN	1.6
7.	Pike • CIN	1.4
8.	Start • HAR	1.4
9.	Anson • CHC	1.2
10.	Hall • LOU	1.2

Extra Base Hits
1.	White • BSN	27
2.	York • HAR	24
	Jones • 2TM	24
4.	Hall • LOU	23
	Manning • CIN	23
6.	Brown • BSN	21
7.	Anson • CHC	20
	Pike • CIN	20
9.	O'Rourke • BSN	18
	Hines • CHC	18

Times On Base
1.	O'Rourke • BSN	116
2.	White • BSN	111
3.	McVey • CHC	106
4.	Hall • LOU	99
5.	Cassidy • HAR	98
6.	Start • HAR	96
7.	Anson • CHC	95
8.	Dorgan • STL	91
9.	Jones • 2TM	90
10.	Wright • BSN	89
	Clapp • STL	89

Offensive Win %
1.	White • BSN	.846
2.	O'Rourke • BSN	.779
3.	Cassidy • HAR	.777
4.	McVey • CHC	.775
5.	Jones • 2TM	.726
6.	Anson • CHC	.707
	Hall • LOU	.707
8.	Manning • CIN	.669
9.	Start • HAR	.659
10.	Clapp • STL	.641

AB per SO
1.	Start • HAR	135.5
2.	White • BSN	88.7
3.	Anson • CHC	85.0
4.	Cassidy • HAR	83.7
5.	Leonard • BSN	54.4
6.	Addy • CIN	49.0
7.	Latham • LOU	46.3
8.	McGeary • STL	43.0
9.	Clapp • STL	42.5
10.	Manning • CIN	42.0

AB per HR
1.	Pike • CIN	65.5
2.	Shafer • LOU	86.7
3.	Jones • 2TM	120.0
4.	Snyder • LOU	124.0
5.	White • BSN	133.0
6.	Brown • BSN	221.0
7.	Battin • STL	226.0
8.	Larkin • HAR	228.0
9.	York • HAR	237.0
10.	Crowley • LOU	238.0

Outs Made
1.	Wright • BSN	210
2.	Burdock • HAR	205
3.	Carey • HAR	204
4.	Bond • BSN	200
5.	Latham • LOU	197
6.	Devlin • LOU	196
7.	Holdsworth • HAR	194
	Leonard • BSN	194
9.	Hague • LOU	193
	McGeary • STL	193

rOBA
1.	White • BSN	.435
2.	O'Rourke • BSN	.396
3.	Cassidy • HAR	.392
4.	McVey • CHC	.387
5.	Jones • 2TM	.365
6.	Anson • CHC	.365
7.	Hall • LOU	.358
8.	Manning • CIN	.353
9.	Start • HAR	.349
10.	Pike • CIN	.342

Rbat+
1.	White • BSN	173
2.	Cassidy • HAR	165
3.	O'Rourke • BSN	152
4.	Jones • 2TM	151
5.	Manning • CIN	145
6.	Start • HAR	142
7.	McVey • CHC	140
8.	Pike • CIN	139
9.	Clapp • STL	131
10.	Anson • CHC	128

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