Largest PA/AB Difference

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

Does anyone know the largest difference between seasonal plate appearances and at-bats? Say a player with 200 PA but only 80 AB?

[GiambiJuice]

Barry Bonds in 2004 would be the obvious guess.

[chicagowhitesox1173]

I dont know who it is but I would guess Barry Bonds the year he had 232 base on balls.

[Nerdlinger]

Does anyone know the largest difference between seasonal plate appearances and at-bats? Say a player with 200 PA but only 80 AB?

Are you asking as a trivia question or because you don't know?

[Tyrus4189Cobb]

Are you asking as a trivia question or because you don't know?

Because I don't know. My guess was also Bonds, but ya never know.

[Joltin' Joe]

How about the other way around? Which player had the least amount of PA/AB delta out of all players who qualified for the batting title (502 PA)?

The one that comes to mind is Ozzie Guillen's 1996 season w/ 528 PA and 499 AB. He only walked 10 times! He had 12 SHs and 7 SFs. His isolated discipline was only .010 with an OBP of .273 v. a BA of .263. He had a WAR of -1.8, a pretty brutal season. Still got paid $4,000,000. :disbelief:

[GiambiJuice]

How about the other way around? Which player had the least amount of PA/AB delta out of all players who qualified for the batting title (502 PA)?

The one that comes to mind is Ozzie Guillen's 1996 season w/ 528 PA and 499 AB. He only walked 10 times! He had 12 SHs and 7 SFs. His isolated discipline was only .010 with an OBP of .273 v. a BA of .263. He had a WAR of -1.8, a pretty brutal season. Still got paid $4,000,000. :disbelief:

Since 1900, the record for the largest percentage of PA resulting in an official AB belongs to Virgil Stallcup of the 1949 Cinicinnati Reds. He had 589 PA and 575 AB. (97.6% of his PA resulted in an official AB. He only walked 9 times all season.)

If we lower the minimum from 500 PA to 100, there is one player who had an AB in 100% of his PA's and that was Alejandro Sanchez in 1985.

The record for a career (minimum 3,000 PA) belongs to Don Mueller. 4,364 AB in 4593 PA (95%).

[Joltin' Joe]

Since 1900, the record for the largest percentage of PA resulting in an official AB belongs to Virgil Stallcup of the 1949 Cinicinnati Reds. He had 589 PA and 575 AB. (97.6% of his PA resulted in an official AB. He only walked 9 times all season.)

If we lower the minimum from 500 PA to 100, there is one player who had an AB in 100% of his PA's and that was Alejandro Sanchez in 1985.

The record for a career (minimum 3,000 PA) belongs to Don Mueller. 4,364 AB in 4593 PA (95%).

Wow these are pretty amazing! Thanks Juice!

[GiambiJuice]

Wow these are pretty amazing! Thanks Juice!

Don't thank me, thank the Play Index :-)

[Nerdlinger]

Because I don't know. My guess was also Bonds, but ya never know.

Bonds did set the record for highest season PA/AB ratio in 2004.

[brett]

How about the other way around? Which player had the least amount of PA/AB delta out of all players who qualified for the batting title (502 PA)?

The one that comes to mind is Ozzie Guillen's 1996 season w/ 528 PA and 499 AB. He only walked 10 times! He had 12 SHs and 7 SFs. His isolated discipline was only .010 with an OBP of .273 v. a BA of .263. He had a WAR of -1.8, a pretty brutal season. Still got paid $4,000,000. :disbelief:

On a percentage basis that is 94.5% of his plate appearances that were at bats. Willie Wilson was at 94.6% in 1980 with 705 out of 745. He was at 93.0% for his career.
Gary Templeton was at 96.6% in '79 and 96.4% in '77.