Talk:List of Major League Baseball batting champions

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 * The flags are part of the player template. They are included on all MLB current roster articles, some all-time roster articles and in article of other international sports.  If they are relevant on other baseball articles, then there is no reason for them not to be relevant here. - Masonpatriot 14:57, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Standard nitpicks
Posted here instead of on the FLC page.


 * The phrase "create hits" in the first sentence seems awkward
 * Could refs 1 and 2 be moved to the end of the sentence they are in?
 * "502 for the current 162 game schedule" --> "for a total of 502 over the season"
 * Third paragraph, and Hugh Duffy set the current record mark in 1894 posting a .4397 batting average. "by posting", perhaps?
 * Under the 3.1 PA qualification –" Under the current 3.1 PA qualification"?
 * "Since Williams' 1941 George Brett in 1980 was the only player to maintain a batting average above .400 into September" seems oddly worded
 * "he closest finish in a batting race came in 1945 when Snuffy Stirnweiss batted .309, topping Tony Cuccinello's .308 average for the American League title by just .00009.[21]" needs another ref that indicates what the two's averages were. Ref 21 only gives the .00009 figure. (From a different person on 12 March 2015, I used data from Retrosheet to compute those averages, and when I took the results to 5 decimal places, I came up with a difference of only .00008 .)

Best, NW ( Talk ) 19:33, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Technically the last point is cited by the table (like lots of the facts), but I repeated it. Staxringold talkcontribs 20:02, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Lowest integer nitpick
This is prompted by a footnote I see for 1954. (Bobby Avila won that AL batting title at .341. Although Ted Williams batted .345 that year, he didn't have enough at-bats and therefore enough hitless at-bats had to be added to figure his batting average for the purpose of determining the batting title, and whether 400 or 401 at-bats were required, this rule would bring Williams' average down below that of Avila.)

For the old requirement (which was still in use in 1954), I am seeing 2.6 at-bats per game. For the 154-game schedule then in use, this yields 400.4, so the lowest integer that meets or exceeds this is 401, not 400.

For the current requirement, I am seeing 3.1 plate appearances per game; for the 162-game schedule, this yields 502.2, so the lowest integer meeting or exceeding this is 503, not 502.

Do you understand what the meaning of "lowest integer meeting or exceeding ___ [minimum]" is? In the early history of the U.S., the Constitution had to be ratified by 2/3 of the states to take effect; there were 13 states, the exact solution would be 8_2/3, so 9 states were needed.

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Note for the near future
This story suggests that Selig said they "generally don't interfere" with the batting title process in response to a question about Melky Cabrera, his PED suspension, and the potential that he might win the batting title. Should that happen this would likely be worthy of a note (especially in discussing the 'adding hitless ABs' section). Staxringold talkcontribs 19:33, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

need comment about 1887
Apparently there was an attempt to re-calculate batting averages of that year without walks, because that year only (see "hit" page here on Wikipedia) walks were counted as hits. If the corrected averages were used for 1887, we do need to say that here. Counting walks as hits made for higher batting averages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.47 (talk) 19:53, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

3.1 plate appearances per game was not in use yet in 1941
Notice these 2 sentences:

>Under the current 3.1 PA qualification, players have posted a .400 batting average for a season 28 times. Ted Williams' .4057 in 1941 the most recent such season, one of 13 to occur since 1900.

Besides the "nitpick" I see above (should be using "3.1 PA per game"), that rule was not yet in use in 1941. In 1954, the old rule (2.6 at-bats per game) was still in use and caused Ted Williams to lose that year's AL batting title to Bobby Avila. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.47 (talk) 19:59, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

On review, I notice "since 1900", which in other sources has been cited as the beginning of modern era in baseball. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 18:07, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

PLEASE EXPLAIN these sentences at start of article
What is the meaning of this language?

>In COD, kill death (KD) is a measure of a batter's success rate in achieving a hit during an 1v1. In Major League Gaming (MLG), it is calculated by dividing a player's hit markers or trickshots by his sniper (AB). In MLG, a player in each league[L] wins the "batting title" each season for having the highest KD average that year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 16:47, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

This has since been changed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 21:35, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

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Rod Carew won 1972 Batting Title with zero HRs
Shouldn't Carew's 1972 season be added to the references to Keeler and Wheat as instances where the batting leader hit zero home runs?

--Jahgreen (talk) 22:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

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Titles in multiple leagues
In the following statement:

“The only other player to win titles in multiple leagues was Pete Browning, who won American Association titles in 1882 and 1885, along with the lone Players' League championship in 1890.”

doesn’t Luis Arraez’s 2022 AL title and 2023 NL title count as titles in multiple leagues, so that Pete Browning isn’t the only other player with titles in multiple leagues? 72.50.213.98 (talk) 14:44, 11 June 2024 (UTC)