Trout Among Elite Who Have Led Their League In WAR For Three Or More Consecutive Years Since 1900

The other guys to have done it are among the greatest ever. It is only 11 other players. Trout currently leads the AL with 5.9 (Manny Machado and Jason Kipnis are each next with 4.8). So he has a good chance to lead 4 straight years. Then the list falls to 7 previously to do that.

The table below shows all the streaks and some relevant data. The + sign indicates a Hall of Famer. I think I got everyone just by looking over the annual leaders several times. If I missed anyone, let me know.

Player (yrs)	Streak	Years	Age	WAR	High	Avg
Honus Wagner+ (21)	8	1902-09	28-35	72.2	11.5	9.03
Nap Lajoie+ (21)	3	1906-08	31-33	25.5	10.0	8.50
Ty Cobb+ (24)	3	1909-11	22-24	31.0	10.7	10.33
Rogers Hornsby+ (23)	6	1917-22	21-26	52.4	10.8	8.73
Babe Ruth+ (22)	3	1919-21	24-26	34.2	12.9	11.40
Babe Ruth+ (22)	6	1926-31	31-36	62.6	12.4	10.43
Rogers Hornsby+ (23)	3	1927-29	31-33	29.2	10.4	9.73
Lou Gehrig+ (17)	3	1934-36	31-33	28.1	10.4	9.37
Mickey Mantle+ (18)	5	1955-59	23-27	47.3	11.3	9.46
Willie Mays+ (22)	5	1962-66	31-35	52.3	11.2	10.46
Wade Boggs+ (18)	3	1986-88	28-30	24.6	8.3	8.20
Barry Bonds (22)	4	1990-93	25-28	36.6	9.9	9.15
Barry Bonds (22)	4	2001-04	36-39	43.4	11.9	10.85
Albert Pujols (15)	6	2005-10	25-30	52.0	9.7	8.67
Mike Trout (5)	3	2012-14	20-22	27.9	10.8	9.30

Some notes: Ruth, Hornsby and Bonds each had two separate streaks. Ruth's best year was 1923 with an all-time high WAR of 14.1 and it is not part of either streak he has in the table. Ted Williams led the AL in 1941-42 and 1946-47 but was in the military from 1943-45. Stan Musial led the NL in 1943-44 and 1946 but was in the military in 1945. Besides Trout, only Cobb and Hornsby started streaks at age 22 or younger.