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MLB Stat Leaders

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Who led baseball at the plate and on the mound — and which starters have the best raw stuff, whatever their results?

2026 seasonthrough 162 team gamesregular season

Rate stats (AVG, OBP, SLG, OPS, ERA, WHIP, K/9) need a qualifying sample: 502 plate appearances (3.1 per team game) or 162 innings (1 per team game). Counting stats have no minimum. Ties share a rank.

Hitting

Yordan Alvarez leads (or shares the lead) in AVG, OBP, SLG and OPS.

Pitching

Jacob Misiorowski leads (or shares the lead) in ERA, WHIP, K and K/9.

Pitch qualityqualified starters · 46

Jacob Misiorowski grades best at 130, led by a four-seam fastball graded 147. Among these 46 starters, the rank correlation between stuff and ERA is 0.32 — better stuff goes with a better ERA, but loosely.

Our Stuff+ grade: how nasty a pitcher's pitches are from their physical shape alone (velocity, spin, movement, extension, release), 100 = league average, 10 points = one standard deviation. It cannot see command, sequencing or results — which is why ERA sits beside it. How it is built

#PitcherStuff+ERA
1Jacob Misiorowski1301.80
2Cristopher Sánchez1192.91
3Jacob deGrom1194.20
4Dylan Cease1172.40
5Drew Rasmussen1142.67
6Nolan McLean1143.16
7Chris Sale1112.16
8José Soriano1113.91
9Zack Wheeler1113.00
10Bryan Woo1094.01
11Cam Schlittler1091.95
12Freddy Peralta1084.42
13Logan Gilbert1083.73
14Sean Burke1083.34
15Shane Baz1084.11
16Taj Bradley1083.73
17Braxton Ashcraft1073.65
18Framber Valdez1074.03
19Trevor Rogers1074.03
20Yoshinobu Yamamoto1072.53
21Cade Cavalli1063.02
22George Kirby1064.33
23MacKenzie Gore1064.58
24Paul Skenes1063.82
25Robbie Ray1053.59
26Shota Imanaga1053.77
27Reid Detmers1043.36
28Sonny Gray1042.72
29Andrew Abbott1034.61
30Gavin Williams1033.76
31Kevin Gausman1034.51
32Foster Griffin1023.60
33Jesús Luzardo1022.86
34Sandy Alcantara1023.87
35Tanner Bibee1024.36
36Aaron Nola1014.67
37Michael King1013.21
38Michael Wacha1003.32
39Nick Martinez1003.10
40Parker Messick1002.56
41Andre Pallante993.83
42Noah Cameron984.11
43Eduardo Rodriguez972.89
44Merrill Kelly974.94
45Seth Lugo965.17
46Michael McGreevy923.95

Where these come from

Leaders and season lines are the MLB Stats API's, regular season only, qualified by MLB's own rule. The pitch-quality grades are ours (model/mlb/stuff.py): a gradient-boosted model of each pitch's run value from its release and movement, averaged per pitcher. The board lists only qualified starters we have graded; relievers are graded too, and their grades show on their player pages.