Rickey Henderson, who died Friday at age 65, stole 1,406 bases in his unimaginable 25-year Main League Baseball profession. That not solely made him the all-time chief, it put him 468 steals forward of second-place Lou Brock. Henderson stole his ultimate 109 bases after he handed the age of 40.
Henderson additionally holds the document for many house runs main off a sport. He played 3,081 games in his profession, fourth on the all-time listing. He led off 81 of those games with a house run. George Springer of the Toronto Blue Jays is available in second, however at 60 he’ll want to drag off the feat 22 extra occasions to interrupt Henderson’s document.
The item of the sport in baseball is to attain runs, and no person scored greater than Henderson, who crossed the plate 2,295 occasions, 50 greater than second-place Ty Cobb.
Was Henderson the best baseball participant of all time? If not, the place does he rank, out of the 20,787 gamers who’ve worn a Main League uniform for the reason that Nationwide League was based in 1876?
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There are just a few alternative ways of evaluating Henderson’s place on the “Best of All Time” listing. In 2022, ESPN.com put together its own rating of the highest 100 MLB gamers ever. On that listing, Henderson positioned twenty third, a fairly respectable displaying. Baseball-Reference.com assembled it personal listing of the highest 25 gamers, and Henderson in on there too, although that listing is in alphabetical order.
However ranked by Wins Above Alternative, or WAR, Henderson places 19th in Main League historical past. WAR is a statistic that, in response to Baseball-Reference.com, “measures a participant’s worth in comparison with a typical participant that might change him.”
Henderson’s WAR variety of 111.1 places him forward of Mickey Mantle (110.2), Albert Pujols (101.4) and Mike Trout (86.2), amongst many different baseball greats.
It doesn’t matter what statistic is used to guage him, there isn’t any doubt that baseball has now misplaced one of many best gamers ever to play the sport.
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