1878 Major League Batting Leaders

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Major League Batting Leaders

Wins Above Replacement--all
1.	Bond • BSN	13.4
2.	Weaver • MLG	10.2
3.	Larkin • CHC	5.6
4.	Ward • PRO	4.7
5.	Shafer • IND	3.5
6.	Ferguson • CHC	3.1
7.	Hines • PRO	2.8
8.	Jones • CIN	2.8
9.	Gerhardt • CIN	2.5
10.	White • CIN	2.4

WAR Position Players
1.	Shafer • IND	3.5
2.	Ferguson • CHC	3.1
3.	Hines • PRO	2.8
4.	Jones • CIN	2.8
5.	Gerhardt • CIN	2.5
6.	White • CIN	2.4
7.	Start • CHC	2.4
8.	Dalrymple • MLG	2.3
9.	Clapp • IND	2.1
10.	Brown • PRO	2.1

Offensive WAR
1.	Shafer • IND	2.9
2.	Ferguson • CHC	2.7
3.	Hines • PRO	2.6
4.	Start • CHC	2.5
5.	McVey • CIN	2.5
6.	White • CIN	2.3
7.	Brown • PRO	2.2
8.	Clapp • IND	2.2
9.	Jones • CIN	2.1
10.	Anson • CHC	2.1

Defensive WAR
1.	Hague • PRO	1.6
2.	Snyder • BSN	1.2
3.	Flint • IND	1.0
4.	Wright • BSN	1.0
5.	Sullivan • CIN	0.9
6.	Ferguson • CHC	0.9
7.	Gerhardt • CIN	0.8
8.	Burdock • BSN	0.6
9.	Carey • PRO	0.5
10.	Hankinson • CHC	0.5

Batting Average
1.	Hines • PRO	.358
2.	Dalrymple • MLG	.354
3.	Ferguson • CHC	.351
4.	Start • CHC	.351
5.	Anson • CHC	.341
6.	Shafer • IND	.338
7.	Higham • PRO	.320
8.	White • CIN	.314
9.	Jones • CIN	.310
10.	Peters • MLG	.309

On-Base%
1.	Ferguson • CHC	.375
2.	Anson • CHC	.372
3.	Shafer • IND	.369
4.	Dalrymple • MLG	.368
5.	Hines • PRO	.363
6.	Start • CHC	.355
7.	White • CIN	.340
8.	Larkin • CHC	.337
9.	Clapp • IND	.337
10.	Higham • PRO	.332

Slugging %
1.	Hines • PRO	.486
2.	York • PRO	.465
3.	Shafer • IND	.455
4.	Brown • PRO	.453
5.	Jones • CIN	.441
6.	Start • CHC	.439
7.	Dalrymple • MLG	.421
8.	Higham • PRO	.416
9.	O'Rourke • BSN	.412
10.	Ferguson • CHC	.405

On-Base Plus Slugging
1.	Hines • PRO	.849
2.	Shafer • IND	.824
3.	Start • CHC	.794
4.	York • PRO	.793
5.	Dalrymple • MLG	.789
6.	Ferguson • CHC	.781
7.	Brown • PRO	.777
8.	Anson • CHC	.775
9.	Jones • CIN	.761
10.	Higham • PRO	.749

Games Played
1.	Williamson • IND	63
	Shafer • IND	63
	McKelvy • IND	63
	Flint • IND	63
	Clapp • IND	63
6.	York • PRO	62
	Hines • PRO	62
	Higham • PRO	62
	Hague • PRO	62
	Quest • IND	62

At Bats
1.	Start • CHC	285
2.	Higham • PRO	281
3.	Quest • IND	278
4.	McVey • CIN	271
	Dalrymple • MLG	271
6.	York • PRO	269
7.	Wright • BSN	267
8.	Shafer • IND	266
9.	Clapp • IND	263
10.	Leonard • BSN	262

Plate Appearances
1.	Quest • IND	290
2.	Start • CHC	287
3.	Higham • PRO	286
4.	Shafer • IND	279
5.	York • PRO	277
	Dalrymple • MLG	277
7.	McVey • CIN	276
	Clapp • IND	276
9.	Anson • CHC	274
10.	Wright • BSN	273

Runs Scored
1.	Higham • PRO	60
2.	Start • CHC	58
3.	York • PRO	56
4.	Anson • CHC	55
5.	Dalrymple • MLG	52
6.	Jones • CIN	50
7.	Shafer • IND	48
8.	Gerhardt • CIN	46
9.	Quest • IND	45
10.	O'Rourke • BSN	44
	Ferguson • CHC	44
	Brown • PRO	44

Hits
1.	Start • CHC	100
2.	Dalrymple • MLG	96
3.	Hines • PRO	92
4.	Ferguson • CHC	91
5.	Shafer • IND	90
	Higham • PRO	90
7.	Anson • CHC	89
8.	McVey • CIN	83
	York • PRO	83
10.	White • CIN	81
	Jones • CIN	81

Total Bases
1.	York • PRO	125
	Hines • PRO	125
	Start • CHC	125
4.	Shafer • IND	121
5.	Higham • PRO	117
6.	Jones • CIN	115
7.	Dalrymple • MLG	114
8.	Brown • PRO	110
9.	McVey • CIN	107
10.	O'Rourke • BSN	105
	Anson • CHC	105
	Ferguson • CHC	105

Doubles
1.	Higham • PRO	22
2.	Brown • PRO	21
3.	Shafer • IND	19
	York • PRO	19
5.	O'Rourke • BSN	17
6.	Geer • CIN	13
	Hines • PRO	13
8.	Burdock • BSN	12
	Start • CHC	12
	Harbridge • CHC	12
	Anson • CHC	12

Triples
1.	York • PRO	10
2.	O'Rourke • BSN	7
	Jones • CIN	7
4.	Burdock • BSN	6
	Shafer • IND	6
	Brown • PRO	6
7.	Leonard • BSN	5
	Start • CHC	5
	Foley • MLG	5
10.	Larkin • CHC	4
	McVey • CIN	4
	Dalrymple • MLG	4
	Hines • PRO	4
	Ward • PRO	4

Home Runs
1.	Hines • PRO	4
2.	Jones • CIN	3
3.	McVey • CIN	2
	McKelvy • IND	2
5.	O'Rourke • BSN	1
	Sutton • BSN	1
	Hankinson • CHC	1
	Remsen • CHC	1
	Start • CHC	1
	Williamson • IND	1
	Bennett • MLG	1
	Goodman • MLG	1
	Brown • PRO	1
	Higham • PRO	1
	Ward • PRO	1
	York • PRO	1

Runs Batted In
1.	Hines • PRO	50
2.	Brown • PRO	43
3.	Anson • CHC	40
4.	Jones • CIN	39
	Ferguson • CHC	39
6.	Harbridge • CHC	37
7.	McKelvy • IND	36
8.	Larkin • CHC	32
9.	Shafer • IND	30
10.	McClellan • CHC	29
	Clapp • IND	29
	White • CIN	29
	Higham • PRO	29
	Cassidy • CHC	29
	O'Rourke • BSN	29
	Sutton • BSN	29

Bases on Balls
1.	Remsen • CHC	17
	Larkin • CHC	17
3.	Shafer • IND	13
	Clapp • IND	13
	Anson • CHC	13
6.	Quest • IND	12
7.	Weaver • MLG	11
8.	Ferguson • CHC	10
	Bennett • MLG	10
	Manning • BSN	10
	White • CIN	10
	Geer • CIN	10

Strikeouts
1.	White • CIN	41
2.	McKelvy • IND	38
3.	Brown • PRO	37
4.	Hankinson • CHC	36
5.	Golden • MLG	35
6.	Hague • PRO	34
7.	Remsen • CHC	33
	Goodman • MLG	33
9.	Dalrymple • MLG	29
10.	Bennett • MLG	26

Singles
1.	Start • CHC	82
	Dalrymple • MLG	82
3.	Ferguson • CHC	79
4.	White • CIN	76
5.	Anson • CHC	75
6.	Hines • PRO	71
7.	Peters • MLG	69
8.	Clapp • IND	68
	Gerhardt • CIN	68
10.	McVey • CIN	67

Adjusted OPS+
1.	Shafer • IND	184
2.	Hines • PRO	177
3.	Jones • CIN	158
4.	York • PRO	158
5.	Brown • PRO	153
6.	Start • CHC	152
7.	Dalrymple • MLG	151
8.	Ferguson • CHC	149
9.	Anson • CHC	147
10.	Higham • PRO	144

Runs Created
1.	Shafer • IND	45
	Hines • PRO	45
3.	Start • CHC	44
4.	Dalrymple • MLG	42
5.	York • PRO	41
6.	Anson • CHC	39
	Ferguson • CHC	39
	Higham • PRO	39
9.	Jones • CIN	37
10.	Brown • PRO	36

Adj. Batting Runs
1.	Shafer • IND	24
2.	Hines • PRO	20
3.	York • PRO	16
4.	Start • CHC	15
5.	Jones • CIN	15
6.	Dalrymple • MLG	15
7.	Ferguson • CHC	14
8.	Anson • CHC	14
9.	Brown • PRO	14
10.	Higham • PRO	14

Adj. Batting Wins
1.	Shafer • IND	2.6
2.	Hines • PRO	2.3
3.	York • PRO	1.8
4.	Start • CHC	1.7
5.	Jones • CIN	1.7
6.	Dalrymple • MLG	1.7
7.	Ferguson • CHC	1.6
8.	Anson • CHC	1.6
9.	Brown • PRO	1.6
10.	Higham • PRO	1.6

Extra Base Hits
1.	York • PRO	30
2.	Brown • PRO	28
3.	Shafer • IND	25
	O'Rourke • BSN	25
5.	Higham • PRO	24
6.	Jones • CIN	21
	Hines • PRO	21
8.	Burdock • BSN	18
	Start • CHC	18
10.	McVey • CIN	16

Times On Base
1.	Shafer • IND	103
2.	Start • CHC	102
	Dalrymple • MLG	102
	Anson • CHC	102
5.	Ferguson • CHC	101
6.	Higham • PRO	95
7.	Hines • PRO	94
8.	Clapp • IND	93
9.	White • CIN	91
	York • PRO	91

Offensive Win %
1.	Hines • PRO	.802
2.	Shafer • IND	.783
3.	Dalrymple • MLG	.762
4.	Start • CHC	.759
5.	Ferguson • CHC	.751
6.	Anson • CHC	.743
7.	York • PRO	.733
8.	Brown • PRO	.720
9.	Jones • CIN	.707
10.	Higham • PRO	.705

AB per SO
1.	Anson • CHC	261.0
2.	Start • CHC	95.0
3.	White • CIN	51.6
4.	Kelly • CIN	33.9
5.	Clapp • IND	32.9
6.	Peters • MLG	30.8
7.	Sullivan • CIN	27.1
8.	McVey • CIN	27.1
9.	Bond • BSN	26.2
10.	Hines • PRO	25.7

AB per HR
1.	Hines • PRO	64.3
2.	Jones • CIN	87.0
3.	McKelvy • IND	126.5
4.	McVey • CIN	135.5
5.	Ward • PRO	138.0
6.	Bennett • MLG	184.0
7.	Remsen • CHC	224.0
8.	Sutton • BSN	239.0
9.	Hankinson • CHC	240.0
10.	Brown • PRO	243.0

Outs Made
1.	Quest • IND	221
2.	Wright • BSN	207
3.	Hague • PRO	199
4.	Flint • IND	197
5.	McKelvy • IND	196
6.	Leonard • BSN	194
7.	Carey • PRO	193
8.	Williamson • IND	192
9.	Higham • PRO	191
10.	Goodman • MLG	190

rOBA
1.	Hines • PRO	.395
2.	Shafer • IND	.380
3.	Start • CHC	.375
4.	Anson • CHC	.371
5.	Ferguson • CHC	.368
6.	York • PRO	.363
7.	Dalrymple • MLG	.360
8.	Jones • CIN	.350
9.	Higham • PRO	.348
10.	Brown • PRO	.344

Rbat+
1.	Shafer • IND	167
2.	Hines • PRO	162
3.	Jones • CIN	147
4.	Start • CHC	144
5.	York • PRO	144
6.	Anson • CHC	142
7.	Clapp • IND	140
8.	Ferguson • CHC	140
9.	McVey • CIN	139
10.	Dalrymple • MLG	136

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