This came up on Twitter several weeks ago. One measure that occurred to me was to look at HR rate when not striking out. I used all the guys with 200+ HRs. The first list has the top 25 but the 2nd list is relative to the league average (that is, a player's HR/(AB - SO) divided by the league average in the same number of ABs). I used Stathead and the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia by Lee Sinins.
|
Rank |
Player |
HR |
AB |
SO |
AB - SO |
Rate |
|
1 |
Mark McGwire |
583 |
6187 |
1596 |
4591 |
0.1270 |
|
2 |
Giancarlo Stanton |
347 |
4839 |
1559 |
3280 |
0.1058 |
|
3 |
Jim Thome |
612 |
8422 |
2548 |
5874 |
0.1042 |
|
4 |
Adam Dunn |
462 |
6883 |
2379 |
4504 |
0.1026 |
|
5 |
Babe Ruth |
714 |
8399 |
1330 |
7069 |
0.1010 |
|
6 |
Ryan Howard |
382 |
5707 |
1843 |
3864 |
0.0989 |
|
7 |
Chris Davis |
295 |
4978 |
1852 |
3126 |
0.0944 |
|
8 |
Sammy Sosa |
609 |
8813 |
2306 |
6507 |
0.0936 |
|
9 |
Rob Deer |
230 |
3881 |
1409 |
2472 |
0.0930 |
|
10 |
Khris Davis |
221 |
3394 |
1017 |
2377 |
0.0930 |
|
11 |
Barry Bonds |
762 |
9847 |
1539 |
8308 |
0.0917 |
|
12 |
Dave Kingman |
442 |
6677 |
1816 |
4861 |
0.0909 |
|
13 |
Jose Canseco |
462 |
7057 |
1942 |
5115 |
0.0903 |
|
14 |
Mike Trout |
310 |
4656 |
1215 |
3441 |
0.0901 |
|
15 |
Harmon Killebrew |
573 |
8147 |
1699 |
6448 |
0.0889 |
|
16 |
Nelson Cruz |
449 |
6910 |
1751 |
5159 |
0.0870 |
|
17 |
Manny Ramirez |
555 |
8244 |
1813 |
6431 |
0.0863 |
|
18 |
Mike Napoli |
267 |
4572 |
1468 |
3104 |
0.0860 |
|
19 |
Jay Buhner |
310 |
5013 |
1406 |
3607 |
0.0859 |
|
20 |
Carlos Delgado |
473 |
7283 |
1745 |
5538 |
0.0854 |
|
21 |
Mark Reynolds |
298 |
5432 |
1927 |
3505 |
0.0850 |
|
22 |
Carlos Pena |
286 |
4949 |
1577 |
3372 |
0.0848 |
|
23 |
Mike Schmidt |
548 |
8352 |
1883 |
6469 |
0.0847 |
|
24 |
Richie Sexson |
306 |
4928 |
1313 |
3615 |
0.0846 |
|
25 |
Alex Rodriguez |
696 |
10566 |
2287 |
8279 |
0.0841 |
|
Rank |
Player |
HR/(AB - SO) |
AVGHR/(AB - AVGSO) |
REL Raw Power |
|
1 |
Babe Ruth |
0.1010 |
0.0136 |
7.45 |
|
2 |
Lou Gehrig |
0.0684 |
0.0173 |
3.96 |
|
3 |
Jimmie Foxx |
0.0783 |
0.0199 |
3.94 |
|
4 |
Hack Wilson |
0.0603 |
0.0159 |
3.80 |
|
5 |
Mark McGwire |
0.1270 |
0.0340 |
3.73 |
|
6 |
Wally Berger |
0.0541 |
0.0149 |
3.62 |
|
7 |
Willie Stargell |
0.0793 |
0.0221 |
3.58 |
|
8 |
Rogers Hornsby |
0.0402 |
0.0113 |
3.56 |
|
9 |
Hank Greenberg |
0.0761 |
0.0219 |
3.48 |
|
10 |
Ted Williams |
0.0745 |
0.0223 |
3.34 |
|
11 |
Mickey Mantle |
0.0839 |
0.0254 |
3.31 |
|
12 |
Dave Kingman |
0.0909 |
0.0280 |
3.25 |
|
13 |
Mike Schmidt |
0.0847 |
0.0266 |
3.18 |
|
14 |
Bill Nicholson |
0.0498 |
0.0161 |
3.09 |
|
15 |
Dolph Camilli |
0.0544 |
0.0182 |
2.99 |
|
16 |
Ralph Kiner |
0.0828 |
0.0277 |
2.99 |
|
17 |
Dick Allen |
0.0735 |
0.0247 |
2.98 |
|
18 |
Barry Bonds |
0.0917 |
0.0309 |
2.97 |
|
19 |
Willie McCovey |
0.0784 |
0.0265 |
2.96 |
|
20 |
Darryl Strawberry |
0.0824 |
0.0287 |
2.87 |
|
21 |
Rob Deer |
0.0930 |
0.0326 |
2.86 |
|
22 |
Giancarlo Stanton |
0.1058 |
0.0373 |
2.83 |
|
23 |
Harmon Killebrew |
0.0889 |
0.0317 |
2.80 |
|
24 |
Hal Trosky |
0.0483 |
0.0174 |
2.78 |
|
25 |
Reggie Jackson |
0.0775 |
0.0280 |
2.77 |
