Talk:List of Major League Baseball career records

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inchiro needs an * for his hits record. sisler is still the hit/game champion! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.53.19.235 (talk) 04:57, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Trivia and additional records
While this topic is off to a good start, more records need to be put in there. --Hourick 12:54, 16 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I just added subsections of career and single-season pitching records for the live-ball era. IMHO, the post-1920 era is so fundamentally different from what came before it that separate records are needed to put that era in perspective. — Dale Arnett 05:27, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


 * It has improved quite a bit with just the layout. I'm apprehensive about the trivia section.  Don't know if it deserves it's own article (HIGHLY organized, mind you) or to keep it here and have it sorted and cited. I'm starting to lean that it deserves it's own article, though with a link on here.--Hourick 13:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * This (renamed "Noteworthy Accomplishments") has gotten quite long now. I suggest we move it to a new article. Most of these are not really records anyway. I mean, how can you break the record of "oldest-born player"? Or "first batter in the major leagues"? Also, these are strongly in need of references; the real records can easily be verified, but these can't.--BillFlis 21:24, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, this section is really long now. Time to move to new article. Question: What do we call it?--BillFlis 00:03, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't have the slightest clue as how to go about. This is such a mishmash of information that the only thing that I can think of is to split the facts into the articles of the appropriate player and provide a LINK to that particular article to show who it is. This would be a highly unlikely solution, I would imagine.  --Hourick 00:41, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking "Baseball trivia". You like? Also, I would like to put back the section headings I added previously: Home runs, Grand slams, Perfect games, Triple crown, etc. Comments?--BillFlis 01:09, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I moved all that stuff to Baseball trivia. Fly, little bird, fly!--BillFlis 00:51, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Please leave the trivia in its own article. Thanks!--BillFlis 17:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Ripken's record should be changed to "Most *Consecutive* Games Played" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.189.196.244 (talk) 15:47, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Catching no-hitters
I'd like to see added this one: the record for catching no-hitters. It appears from the following page that the record is four. Varitek just reached three. See http://bb_catchers.tripod.com/catchers/catchnoh.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.237.125 (talk) 04:34, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Steroid era
Shouldn't there be at least a footnote to Bonds' claimed "record"? Solicitr (talk) 21:16, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Proposal to Merge
I really think the article List of Major League Baseball career records should be merged into this page. It contains virtually the exact same information, so there's no urgent need to keep two separate articles that cover exactly the same stats and numbers. Plus, maintaining two separate pages is repetitive and inconvenient with regards to updating stats. —Bloom6132 (talk) 11:21, 4 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree, it's completely unnecessary to have two separate articles with the same information. ̣̣--WBritten (talk) 10:43, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree, it's completely unnecessary to have two separate articles with the same information. ̣̣--WBritten (talk) 10:43, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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Discrepancy re. Madison Bumgarner's tying vs. holding the record for most career grand slams for a pitcher. This page says he holds the record at 3 while Bumgarner's individual page says he's tied. Which is it? I'm looking into it. Juliska357 (talk) 21:21, 21 July 2017 (UTC) [[User: Juliska357]

Requested move 29 August 2018

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved. (page mover nac) The editor  whose username is Z0  08:50, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

List of Major League Baseball record holders → List of Major League Baseball career records – I am re-visiting the previous merge (see previous talk item "Proposal to Merge" above). I think this was done the wrong way round. Since we have List of Major League Baseball single-game records and List of Major League Baseball single-season records, it is logical to have List of Major League Baseball career records for career records. List of Major League Baseball records can then be either a simple disambiguation/index page pointing to those three or a condensed summary of important records of all types (with List of Major League Baseball record holders redirecting to it in either case). Naturally, any non-career records would then be removed from the career records list and added to the appropriate list. For this reason I propose that we reverse the move, i.e. we should move List of Major League Baseball record holders to List of Major League Baseball career records. Jameboy (talk) 13:14, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Baseball project notified. --Jameboy (talk) 13:24, 29 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I'll support as a standardization with List of Major League Baseball single-game records and List of Major League Baseball single-season records. – Muboshgu (talk) 13:39, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Support standardization makes sense. Lepricavark (talk) 15:00, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Support, no point in having different articles that overlap. WBritten (talk) 16:07, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Support, makes sense to me. Taffe316 (talk) 16:49, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Support. A logical consistency in naming that doesn't become pedantic. I like it. oknazevad (talk) 17:58, 29 August 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Runs scored in a season
We have RBI in a single season but not runs scored? Babe Ruth scored 177 (cf. 179) runs in 1921; this record is already 98 years old. Doesn't it seem unbreakable? No other MLBer has scored even 170 runs in a season. BubbleDine (talk) 04:04, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Since?
Given the incredible longevity of some of these records; Is it worth a "since" column being added to the tables? Mjquinn_id (talk) 13:30, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Ohtani
Curious why Ohtani isn’t listed for most homers by a pitcher? Ohtani has over 100 while the person listed has 37. 2600:1700:2D60:B400:D018:942D:2F67:A2B1 (talk) 00:44, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

until
Considered unbreakable until they're broken and removed from the list. 2600:4040:5D30:4800:5A3:FE91:E9F7:49D1 (talk) 18:25, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Negro League officially incorporated into MLB record books
Josh Gibson is now the all-time career leader in BA, OPS and Slug Percentage - BeFriendlyGoodSir (talk) 04:58, 29 May 2024 (UTC)