League batting leaders -- American
Regular season -- as of 10/1/1996

Batting average On-base percentage Slugging percentage
           
Thomas,FSTB .383 Thomas,FSTB .468 Thomas,FSTB .693
Rodriguez,ABAL .376 BondsBAL .447 Gonzalez,JSTB .675
PiazzaCAN .360 KnoblauchPAN .444 BurksNOZ .671
BurksNOZ .357 HendersonBAL .435 LarkinSTB .658
Martin,ABAL .351 ThomeNOZ .435 Rodriguez,ABAL .644
Gonzalez,JSTB .349 BurksNOZ .435 Anderson,BraBSS .641
Franco,JuBAL .336 Rodriguez,ABAL .432 SosaFRA .641
KnoblauchPAN .333 LarkinSTB .429 ThomeNOZ .615
VenturaGOB .331 Anderson,BraBSS .424 PiazzaCAN .608
HigginsonSTB .326 PiazzaCAN .422 VenturaGOB .587
           
           
Hits Runs Runs batted in
           
BurksNOZ226 LarkinSTB148 Rodriguez,ABAL160
Rodriguez,ABAL225 BurksNOZ135 BurksNOZ156
Thomas,FSTB202 Anderson,BraBSS134 Thomas,FSTB143
GrudzielanekIND201 BondsBAL126 BondsBAL141
PiazzaCAN193 ThomeNOZ126 CastillaIND139
Gonzalez,JSTB190 Thomas,FSTB119 SpragueDEX138
VenturaGOB190 Rodriguez,ABAL113 Anderson,BraBSS136
Anderson,BraBSS188 VenturaGOB112 Gonzalez,JSTB132
LansingKCM182 Phillips,TIND112 ThomeNOZ127
FrymanBAL179 KnoblauchPAN111 CarterSTB126
           
           
Doubles Triples Homeruns
           
Rodriguez,ABAL66 Howard,TPAN16 SosaFRA50
BurksNOZ66 DeShieldsSHK14 LarkinSTB50
Alomar,RMEH50 KoslofskiFRA8 SpragueDEX50
Anderson,BraBSS43 GrudzielanekIND8 Gonzalez,JSTB47
FrymanBAL43 Hubbard,TMEH7 ThomeNOZ45
HigginsonSTB42 PrideFRA7 Thomas,FSTB43
CoraNOZ41 McLemoreSTB7 Anderson,BraBSS42
NilssonDEX40 CoraNOZ7 BuhnerGOB41
O'NeillDEX40 ThomeNOZ7 BurksNOZ41
JoynerNOZ38 Anderson,BraBSS7 CarterSTB40
           
           
Extra base hits Stolen bases Steal percentage
           
BurksNOZ112 Goodwin,TIND63-26 BondsBAL .960
Rodriguez,ABAL98 LarkinSTB38-18 SosaFRA .857
Anderson,BraBSS92 NixonKCM37-14 JefferiesDEX .850
Gonzalez,JSTB83 DeShieldsSHK36-12 Martin,ABAL .829
LarkinSTB82 Martin,ABAL34-7 DamonDEX .826
ThomeNOZ82 GrudzielanekIND29-7 GrudzielanekIND .806
SpragueDEX78 CurtisFRA29-7 CurtisFRA .806
CastillaIND77 BondsBAL24-1 Lewis,DBSS .783
Thomas,FSTB76 SosaFRA24-4 DeShieldsSHK .750
VenturaGOB74 KnoblauchPAN23-10 McLemoreSTB .750
           
           
Walks Intentional walks Strikeouts
           
ThomeNOZ135 ThomeNOZ21 NievesNOZ169
BondsBAL134 Alomar,RMEH18 ThomeNOZ161
LarkinSTB110 GirardiIND16 ElsterNOZ158
Phillips,TIND110 BurksNOZ15 BuhnerGOB148
HendersonBAL101 ElsterNOZ12 FielderIND146
O'NeillDEX98 Thomas,FSTB12 JahaSHK142
KnoblauchPAN95 Williams,BeMEH12 HollinsBSS135
McLemoreSTB90 LarkinSTB11 Wilkins,RNOZ134
Alomar,RMEH90 BondsBAL11 Vaughn,GIND134
CurtisFRA89 Rodriguez,ABAL11 SpragueDEX134
           
           
Sacrifice bunts Sacrifice flies Hit by pitch
           
GlavineMEH21 CarterSTB13 Anderson,BraBSS20
LansingKCM21 BondsBAL12 ServaisBSS19
Goodwin,TIND18 Rodriguez,ABAL11 SantangeloBAL15
PortugalGOB16 CastillaIND11 Miller,OSHK14
NomoGOB13 GaettiKCM10 LansingKCM14
Hamilton,JIND12 HollinsBSS10 KnoblauchPAN13
Martinez,PJDEX12 SpragueDEX9 TuckerKCM12
Benes,AlSTB12 Gonzalez,JSTB8 BerryPAN11
HarnischBAL10 FrymanBAL8 CoraNOZ11
Maddux,GKCM10 BurksNOZ8 WidgerBAL10
           
           
Ground ball DP Runs created Runs created/27 outs
           
VenturaGOB25 BurksNOZ 179.8 Thomas,FSTB13.4
CastillaIND25 Thomas,FSTB 170.4 Rodriguez,ABAL11.3
Reed,JoBSS24 Rodriguez,ABAL 167.8 BurksNOZ10.9
PiazzaCAN24 Anderson,BraBSS 160.9 LarkinSTB10.4
BurksNOZ23 ThomeNOZ 158.5 BondsBAL10.4
FielderIND20 LarkinSTB 152.1 Anderson,BraBSS10.3
Gonzalez,JSTB19 BondsBAL 147.1 ThomeNOZ10.2
GiambiCAN18 Gonzalez,JSTB 142.9 Gonzalez,JSTB10.1
Valentin,JnPAN18 VenturaGOB 131.3 PiazzaCAN 9.5
BrumfieldPAN17 PiazzaCAN 131.2 KnoblauchPAN 8.9
           
           
Isolated power Total average Total bases
           
LarkinSTB .353 Thomas,FSTB1.324 BurksNOZ425
SosaFRA .345 LarkinSTB1.280 Rodriguez,ABAL386
Gonzalez,JSTB .327 BondsBAL1.232 Anderson,BraBSS371
SpragueDEX .317 BurksNOZ1.221 Gonzalez,JSTB368
Anderson,BraBSS .316 Anderson,BraBSS1.201 Thomas,FSTB366
ThomeNOZ .315 Rodriguez,ABAL1.189 ThomeNOZ350
BurksNOZ .314 ThomeNOZ1.184 LarkinSTB343
Thomas,FSTB .311 Gonzalez,JSTB1.134 VenturaGOB337
BuhnerGOB .271 SosaFRA1.060 CastillaIND329
Rodriguez,ABAL .269 PiazzaCAN1.054 PiazzaCAN326
           
           
On-base plus slugging Secondary average AB per homerun
           
Thomas,FSTB1.161 LarkinSTB .603 SosaFRA 10.0
BurksNOZ1.106 BondsBAL .569 LarkinSTB 10.4
LarkinSTB1.087 ThomeNOZ .552 SpragueDEX 11.3
Gonzalez,JSTB1.078 Anderson,BraBSS .482 Gonzalez,JSTB 11.6
Rodriguez,ABAL1.077 BurksNOZ .469 Thomas,FSTB 12.3
Anderson,BraBSS1.065 Thomas,FSTB .468 ThomeNOZ 12.6
ThomeNOZ1.050 SosaFRA .458 BuhnerGOB 13.7
PiazzaCAN1.030 SpragueDEX .447 Anderson,BraBSS 13.8
BondsBAL1.022 Gonzalez,JSTB .426 PiazzaCAN 14.5
SosaFRA .993 BuhnerGOB .425 FielderIND 15.4
           
           
Atbats Plate appearances Games
           
Finley,SDEX651 BurksNOZ734 BurksNOZ162
GrudzielanekIND642 Finley,SDEX716 FrymanBAL162
BurksNOZ633 ThomeNOZ715 CarterSTB158
CastillaIND627 LansingKCM711 BooneFRA156
CarterSTB621 Phillips,TIND692 CastillaIND156
LansingKCM618 Anderson,BraBSS691 Davis,CFRA156
FrymanBAL608 FrymanBAL691 DeShieldsSHK156
Rodriguez,ABAL599 CarterSTB690 BonillaSHK155
BonillaSHK582 CastillaIND686 Finley,SDEX155
Anderson,BraBSS579 Rodriguez,ABAL678 Rodriguez,ABAL155
           
           
Current hit streak Longest hit streak 
           
May,DeMEH7 SantangeloBAL27    
Anderson,BraBSS5 KnoblauchPAN25    
AlouBSS4 GrudzielanekIND21    
Cruz,FCAN4 Thomas,FSTB20    
Gonzalez,LPAN4 BerryPAN19    
MitchellBSS4 Phillips,TIND19    
Palmeiro,ONOZ3 CastillaIND18    
Pena,TBSS3 Gonzalez,JSTB17    
White,RPAN3 Martin,ABAL16    
BordersMEH3 WidgerBAL16    
           
           
Total bases + BB + HBP TB+BB+HBP rate Plate appearances per game
           
BurksNOZ518 Thomas,FSTB .735 LansingKCM4.65
ThomeNOZ490 LarkinSTB .714 ThomeNOZ4.64
Anderson,BraBSS476 BurksNOZ .706 Finley,SDEX4.62
LarkinSTB460 Gonzalez,JSTB .696 Phillips,TIND4.55
Rodriguez,ABAL454 Anderson,BraBSS .689 BurksNOZ4.53
Thomas,FSTB452 ThomeNOZ .685 HollinsBSS4.52
BondsBAL433 Rodriguez,ABAL .670 Anderson,BraBSS4.49
Gonzalez,JSTB423 SosaFRA .668 Alomar,RMEH4.48
VenturaGOB413 BondsBAL .652 BuhnerGOB4.48
SpragueDEX406 PiazzaCAN .643 KnoblauchPAN4.47
           
           
Total bases plus walks TB+BB rate AB per game
           
BurksNOZ514 Thomas,FSTB .728 GrudzielanekIND4.22
ThomeNOZ485 LarkinSTB .703 Finley,SDEX4.20
Anderson,BraBSS456 BurksNOZ .700 LansingKCM4.04
LarkinSTB453 Gonzalez,JSTB .692 CastillaIND4.02
Rodriguez,ABAL449 ThomeNOZ .678 CoraNOZ3.98
Thomas,FSTB448 Rodriguez,ABAL .662 CarterSTB3.93
BondsBAL430 Anderson,BraBSS .660 BurksNOZ3.91
Gonzalez,JSTB421 SosaFRA .651 Gonzalez,JSTB3.87
VenturaGOB407 BondsBAL .648 Rodriguez,ABAL3.86
SpragueDEX399 PiazzaCAN .635 Valentin,JnPAN3.84
           
           
Balls in park In-play average Strikeout/walk ratio
           
GrudzielanekIND561 Rodriguez,ABAL .408 BondsBAL 0.4
LansingKCM535 BurksNOZ .389 LarkinSTB 0.6
Finley,SDEX526 Franco,JuBAL .382 O'NeillDEX 0.6
CoraNOZ519 Martin,ABAL .382 Alomar,RMEH 0.6
CastillaIND514 KnoblauchPAN .381 BaergaIND 0.6
CarterSTB502 PiazzaCAN .377 Thomas,FSTB 0.6
BonillaSHK498 Hunter,BLMEH .368 Reed,JoBSS 0.7
FrymanBAL489 Thomas,FSTB .366 HendersonBAL 0.8
Alomar,RMEH486 HigginsonSTB .363 McLemoreSTB 0.8
BaergaIND479 Davis,CFRA .355 Williams,BeMEH 0.9
           
           
Batting average vs LHP On-base percentage vs LHP Slugging percentage vs LHP
           
BurksNOZ .461 BurksNOZ .556 BurksNOZ .796
PiazzaCAN .414 PiazzaCAN .473 SpragueDEX .692
Valentin,JnPAN .385 Valentin,JnPAN .468 BuhnerGOB .667
BonillaSHK .369 HendersonBAL .465 PiazzaCAN .641
HoilesSHK .361 FielderIND .462 Hill,GCAN .636
Williams,BeMEH .340 HoilesSHK .459 HoilesSHK .624
AlouBSS .340 Phillips,TIND .450 BonillaSHK .601
Lewis,MGOB .337 Williams,BeMEH .440 Williams,BeMEH .582
Hill,GCAN .336 Hill,GCAN .430 AlouBSS .560
GrudzielanekIND .335 BonillaSHK .430 Valentin,JnPAN .548
           
           
Hits vs LHP Runs batted in vs LHP On-base plus slugging vs LHP
           
BurksNOZ70 SpragueDEX50 BurksNOZ1.352
GrudzielanekIND63 Hill,GCAN42 PiazzaCAN1.114
BonillaSHK62 BuhnerGOB42 SpragueDEX1.099
PiazzaCAN60 BondsBAL39 HoilesSHK1.083
Lewis,MGOB56 Gonzalez,JSTB38 Hill,GCAN1.066
AlouBSS54 Rodriguez,ABAL37 BuhnerGOB1.061
JefferiesDEX54 NaehringFRA36 BonillaSHK1.031
Gonzalez,JSTB52 MacfarlaneFRA36 Williams,BeMEH1.021
Valentin,JnPAN52 Thomas,FSTB35 Valentin,JnPAN1.016
Williams,BeMEH52 PiazzaCAN32 HendersonBAL1.005
           
           
Doubles vs LHP Triples vs LHP Homeruns vs LHP
           
BurksNOZ24 DeShieldsSHK11 Gonzalez,JSTB19
AlouBSS20 Valentin,JnPAN5 SpragueDEX19
BonillaSHK17 Finley,SDEX5 BuhnerGOB15
White,RPAN16 GrudzielanekIND4 Thomas,FSTB14
FrymanBAL16 NievesNOZ3 SosaFRA14
NixonKCM15 TuckerKCM3 MacfarlaneFRA14
BuhnerGOB15 White,RPAN3 NaehringFRA11
Rodriguez,ABAL14 ElsterNOZ3 BondsBAL11
ElsterNOZ14 BurksNOZ3 Hill,GCAN11
JavierSHK13 Anderson,BraBSS3 WhitenKCM10
           
           
Extra base hits vs LHP Total bases vs LHP Isolated power vs LHP
           
BurksNOZ34 BurksNOZ121 SpragueDEX .391
BuhnerGOB30 SpragueDEX117 BuhnerGOB .364
SpragueDEX28 Gonzalez,JSTB115 BurksNOZ .336
Gonzalez,JSTB25 BuhnerGOB110 Hill,GCAN .300
AlouBSS25 BonillaSHK101 Vaughn,GIND .267
BonillaSHK25 MacfarlaneFRA96 HoilesSHK .263
MacfarlaneFRA23 Thomas,FSTB93 VenturaGOB .248
Rodriguez,ABAL21 PiazzaCAN93 Williams,BeMEH .242
ElsterNOZ21 SosaFRA91 StanleyDEX .236
Thomas,FSTB20 Hill,GCAN89 BonillaSHK .232
           
           
Walks vs LHP Strikeouts vs LHP Hit by pitch vs LHP
           
FielderIND42 DeShieldsSHK52 MarzanoIND8
Phillips,TIND42 ThomeNOZ47 PrincePAN6
VelardeGOB35 Anderson,BraBSS44 SantangeloBAL6
BurksNOZ34 ElsterNOZ43 VenturaGOB6
LarkinSTB31 JahaSHK43 PetaginePAN5
HendersonBAL31 Finley,SDEX42 WhitenKCM5
SpragueDEX31 GaettiKCM41 FrymanBAL5
GagneMEH30 BuhnerGOB41 ServaisBSS4
CurtisFRA29 Wilkins,RNOZ40 Anderson,BraBSS4
Williams,BeMEH28 HollinsBSS39 MosqueraGOB3
           
           
Sacrifice bunts vs LHP Sacrifice flies vs LHP Atbats vs LHP
           
GlavineMEH8 Rodriguez,ABAL5 Finley,SDEX199
Maddux,GKCM6 VenturaGOB4 GrudzielanekIND188
NomoGOB6 SaboSHK3 JefferiesDEX184
LansingKCM6 GirardiIND3 O'NeillDEX177
BenjaminIND5 SamuelNOZ3 DeShieldsSHK171
Goodwin,TIND5 LarkinSTB3 SpragueDEX169
ElsterNOZ5 BondsBAL3 BonillaSHK168
Benes,AlSTB4 CarterSTB3 Lewis,MGOB166
Martinez,PJDEX4 FrymanBAL3 BuhnerGOB165
LiraPAN4 Anderson,BraBSS3 Anderson,BraBSS164
           
           
AB per homerun vs LHP AB per double vs LHP Plate appearances vs LHP
           
SpragueDEX 8.9 BurksNOZ 6.3 Finley,SDEX216
BuhnerGOB 11.0 AlouBSS 7.9 O'NeillDEX207
Hill,GCAN 12.7 FrymanBAL 9.4 SpragueDEX204
HoilesSHK 13.3 BonillaSHK 9.9 JefferiesDEX202
StanleyDEX 14.1 ElsterNOZ 10.7 VelardeGOB197
Vaughn,GIND 14.6 BuhnerGOB 11.0 Lewis,MGOB196
Williams,BeMEH 17.0 TartabullBAL 11.4 GrudzielanekIND194
VenturaGOB 17.4 Alomar,RMEH 12.2 Anderson,BraBSS193
PiazzaCAN 18.1 Valentin,JnPAN 15.0 Phillips,TIND191
FielderIND 18.7 Owens,EMEH 15.2 BuhnerGOB190
           
           
Batting average vs RHP On-base percentage vs RHP Slugging percentage vs RHP
           
Martin,ABAL .385 ThomeNOZ .472 Anderson,BraBSS .699
Thomas,FSTB .379 BondsBAL .466 ThomeNOZ .679
HigginsonSTB .365 KnoblauchPAN .460 LarkinSTB .667
Rodriguez,ABAL .361 Thomas,FSTB .459 Thomas,FSTB .659
VenturaGOB .355 O'NeillDEX .454 BurksNOZ .632
O'NeillDEX .347 Anderson,BraBSS .446 Rodriguez,ABAL .624
Anderson,BraBSS .345 HigginsonSTB .443 SosaFRA .621
NilssonDEX .341 Franco,JuBAL .436 VenturaGOB .614
PiazzaCAN .340 Martin,ABAL .436 Gonzalez,JSTB .604
Franco,JuBAL .340 VenturaGOB .429 CastillaIND .599
           
           
Hits vs RHP Runs batted in vs RHP On-base plus slugging vs RHP
           
Rodriguez,ABAL174 BurksNOZ125 ThomeNOZ1.151
Martin,ABAL159 CastillaIND124 Anderson,BraBSS1.145
Thomas,FSTB157 Rodriguez,ABAL123 Thomas,FSTB1.118
BurksNOZ156 Anderson,BraBSS113 LarkinSTB1.088
VenturaGOB148 Thomas,FSTB108 VenturaGOB1.042
CastillaIND145 CarterSTB103 BondsBAL1.039
Anderson,BraBSS143 BondsBAL102 Rodriguez,ABAL1.034
Gonzalez,JSTB138 ThomeNOZ102 HigginsonSTB1.030
GrudzielanekIND138 FrymanBAL96 BurksNOZ1.025
FrymanBAL136 Gonzalez,JSTB94 Martin,ABAL1.019
           
           
Doubles vs RHP Triples vs RHP Homeruns vs RHP
           
Rodriguez,ABAL52 Howard,TPAN16 LarkinSTB42
BurksNOZ42 KoslofskiFRA8 ThomeNOZ39
CoraNOZ41 PrideFRA7 CastillaIND38
HigginsonSTB40 McLemoreSTB7 SosaFRA36
NilssonDEX40 CoraNOZ7 Anderson,BraBSS35
Alomar,RMEH37 Hubbard,TMEH6 BurksNOZ34
JoynerNOZ37 MorrisDEX6 CarterSTB33
O'NeillDEX35 DamonDEX6 SpragueDEX31
GiambiCAN35 BransonSTB5 PiazzaCAN29
Martin,ABAL35 Gonzalez,LPAN5 Thomas,FSTB29
           
           
Extra base hits vs RHP Total bases vs RHP Isolated power vs RHP
           
BurksNOZ78 BurksNOZ304 LarkinSTB .362
Rodriguez,ABAL77 Rodriguez,ABAL301 ThomeNOZ .360
Anderson,BraBSS73 Anderson,BraBSS290 Anderson,BraBSS .354
CastillaIND67 CastillaIND288 SosaFRA .338
LarkinSTB66 ThomeNOZ279 BurksNOZ .308
ThomeNOZ65 LarkinSTB278 CastillaIND .297
Gonzalez,JSTB58 Thomas,FSTB273 SpragueDEX .286
Finley,SDEX58 CarterSTB260 Thomas,FSTB .280
Thomas,FSTB56 VenturaGOB256 Gonzalez,JSTB .274
VenturaGOB55 Gonzalez,JSTB253 Rodriguez,ABAL .263
           
           
Walks vs RHP Strikeouts vs RHP Hit by pitch vs RHP
           
ThomeNOZ119 NievesNOZ146 Anderson,BraBSS16
BondsBAL115 FielderIND118 ServaisBSS15
McLemoreSTB79 ElsterNOZ115 LansingKCM14
LarkinSTB79 ThomeNOZ114 KnoblauchPAN12
KnoblauchPAN77 SpragueDEX111 BerryPAN11
O'NeillDEX73 Delgado,CCAN110 Miller,OSHK11
JoynerNOZ72 Vaughn,GIND109 WidgerBAL10
HendersonBAL70 BuhnerGOB107 HoilesSHK10
Phillips,TIND68 SosaFRA102 CoraNOZ10
Alomar,RMEH66 BurksNOZ101 SantangeloBAL9
           
           
Sacrifice bunts vs RHP Sacrifice flies vs RHP Atbats vs RHP
           
LansingKCM15 CastillaIND11 Rodriguez,ABAL482
PortugalGOB14 CarterSTB10 BurksNOZ481
GlavineMEH13 BondsBAL9 CastillaIND481
Goodwin,TIND13 GaettiKCM8 CarterSTB478
Hamilton,JIND9 HollinsBSS8 CoraNOZ478
DamonDEX9 TuckerKCM7 LansingKCM458
VelardeGOB9 Gonzalez,JSTB7 FrymanBAL457
CoraNOZ9 BonillaSHK7 GrudzielanekIND454
CandiottiMEH8 HuskeyKCM6 Finley,SDEX452
NeagleDEX8 BerryPAN6 BooneFRA438
           
           
AB per homerun vs RHP AB per double vs RHP Plate appearances vs RHP
           
LarkinSTB 9.9 HigginsonSTB 8.6 BurksNOZ545
SosaFRA 10.2 NilssonDEX 9.2 ThomeNOZ538
ThomeNOZ 10.5 Rodriguez,ABAL 9.3 Rodriguez,ABAL532
Anderson,BraBSS 11.9 O'NeillDEX 10.0 CarterSTB531
CastillaIND 12.7 Alomar,RMEH 10.5 LansingKCM531
SpragueDEX 12.7 JoynerNOZ 11.4 CoraNOZ528
PiazzaCAN 13.5 BurksNOZ 11.5 CastillaIND521
BurksNOZ 14.1 CoraNOZ 11.7 BondsBAL515
Thomas,FSTB 14.3 GiambiCAN 11.8 FrymanBAL510
CarterSTB 14.5 Martin,ABAL 11.8 LarkinSTB506