Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Highest BB/SO ratios from 1920-2020 with 5000+ PAs relative to the league average

Data is from the Lee Sinins Complete Baseball Encyclopedia. Sewell walked about 18.7% more than average (so his BB Ratio is 1.187). He struck out only 22.5% as often as average (so his SO ratio is 0.225). Then 1.187/0.22 is about 5.279 far ahead of second place Speaker.

I count 15 Hall of Famers in the top 25. The bottom 25 has just one, George Kelly.

 

Rank

Player

BB

SO

BB Ratio

SO Ratio

BB/SO

1

Joe Sewell

844

114

1.187

0.225

5.279

2

Tris Speaker

636

104

1.652

0.385

4.289

3

Nellie Fox

719

216

0.700

0.196

3.575

4

Jim Gilliam

1036

416

1.476

0.422

3.498

5

Tommy Holmes

480

122

0.964

0.290

3.318

6

Wade Boggs

1412

745

1.730

0.546

3.168

7

Tony Gwynn

790

434

0.931

0.296

3.143

8

Arky Vaughan

937

276

1.713

0.547

3.134

9

Mike Scioscia

567

307

1.376

0.455

3.021

10

Elmer Valo

943

284

1.623

0.548

2.960

11

Willie Randolph

1243

675

1.653

0.567

2.916

12

Mickey Cochrane

857

217

1.642

0.564

2.913

13

Barry Bonds

2558

1539

2.684

0.931

2.883

14

Mark Grace

1075

642

1.391

0.483

2.881

15

Ozzie Smith

1072

589

1.169

0.415

2.818

16

Joe Morgan

1865

1015

2.098

0.755

2.778

17

Mike Hargrove

965

550

1.907

0.731

2.608

18

Rick Ferrell

931

277

1.411

0.541

2.607

19

Brian Giles

1183

835

1.803

0.696

2.589

20

Jackie Robinson

740

291

1.412

0.553

2.553

21

Paul Waner

1091

376

1.426

0.562

2.537

22

Frankie Frisch

724

258

1.010

0.400

2.524

23

Stan Musial

1599

696

1.543

0.615

2.508

24

Ted Williams

2021

709

2.520

1.007

2.502

25

Eric Young

660

462

1.046

0.418

2.502

 

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