Ladies, Gents: I Present Your wRC+ Leader

Not Babe Ruth, no. Not Lou Gehrig or Barry Bonds. Not even Neifi Perez.

No, the hitter with the best statistics in the history of baseball is none other than Scott Munninghoff, a right-handed pitcher who participated in only four major league games in his playing career. Munninghoff, or Muney, as I secretly call him, had one career plate appearance — in 1980 — and in that PA he cracked a triple.

This brings us here:

Munningham is not the only player to hit a triple in his only major league at bat, but he hit his tripz in 1980 — just the right environment to get an edge over Eduardo Rodriguez, who cracked a triple in 1973.

Here, dear baseball brethren, is you MLB wRC+ leader:

Batting 1.000 is kind of impressive, I guess. But hitting 1008 with wRC+ is easily far more impressive. Quantitatively, 1008 is precisely 1007 better than 1.000.

Eat it Barry Bonds, there’s a new daddy in town — and he’s a triplin’ daddy.