2008 postseason · rankings

2008 MLB Postseason Batting Leaders

61 players from 8 clubs qualified, ranked by OPS. October is short and uneven — one club plays two games, another nineteen — so the qualifier is 3.1 plate appearances per game the player's own club played, and never fewer than 10. None of it counts toward the regular-season leaders.

GamesRegular season Postseason

TableBatting Pitching

PositionLeaguePool

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61 of 61 qualifiedDownload Parquet

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1	Manny Ramirez	Dominican Republic	LF	36	LCS	8	36	9	13	2	4	10	11	4	0	.520	.667	1.080	1.747
2	Derrek Lee	United States	1B	33	Division Series	3	12	2	6	3	0	0	1	2	0	.545	.583	.818	1.402
3	Mike Napoli	United States	C	27	Division Series	4	15	3	3	0	2	4	2	3	0	.250	.400	.750	1.150
4	Vladimir Guerrero	Dominican Republic	RF	33	Division Series	4	19	2	7	1	0	0	4	1	1	.467	.579	.533	1.112
5	Jason Bay	Canada	LF	30	LCS	11	51	6	14	3	3	9	9	12	0	.341	.471	.634	1.105
6	Mark DeRosa	United States	2B	33	Division Series	3	12	2	4	2	1	4	0	1	0	.333	.333	.750	1.083
7	Paul Konerko	United States	1B	32	Division Series	4	17	3	5	0	2	2	1	1	0	.313	.353	.688	1.040
8	Jermaine Dye	United States	RF	34	Division Series	4	17	1	6	1	1	1	1	3	0	.375	.412	.625	1.037
9	Mark Teixeira	United States	1B	28	Division Series	4	20	4	7	0	0	1	4	3	0	.467	.550	.467	1.017
10	J.J. Hardy	United States	SS	26	Division Series	4	16	2	6	1	0	2	2	0	0	.429	.500	.500	1.000
11	B.J. Upton	United States	CF	24	World Series	16	72	16	19	1	7	16	5	16	6	.288	.333	.652	.985
12	Jayson Werth	United States	RF	29	World Series	14	62	9	17	7	2	4	7	17	4	.309	.387	.582	.969
13	A.J. Pierzynski	United States	C	32	Division Series	4	16	1	5	1	0	1	2	1	0	.385	.500	.462	.962
14	James Loney	United States	1B	24	LCS	8	33	2	10	3	1	8	3	7	0	.333	.394	.533	.927
15	Ryan Howard	United States	1B	29	World Series	14	63	8	14	3	3	9	11	16	0	.269	.397	.500	.897
16	Dustin Pedroia	United States	2B	25	LCS	11	52	9	10	2	3	6	7	5	2	.233	.365	.488	.854
17	Carlos Pena	Dominican Republic	1B	30	World Series	15	63	9	14	2	3	10	10	17	3	.264	.381	.472	.853
18	Chase Utley	United States	2B	30	World Series	14	64	10	11	3	3	9	13	14	3	.220	.391	.460	.851
19	Kevin Youkilis	United States	1B	29	LCS	11	52	6	14	4	2	7	4	7	0	.292	.346	.500	.846
20	Shane Victorino	United States	CF	28	World Series	14	59	5	14	3	2	13	6	4	3	.269	.345	.481	.826
21	J.D. Drew	United States	RF	33	LCS	11	43	3	10	2	2	6	4	10	0	.263	.349	.474	.823
22	Torii Hunter	United States	CF	33	Division Series	4	19	0	7	0	0	5	1	3	0	.389	.421	.389	.810
23	Chone Figgins	United States	3B	30	Division Series	4	21	2	7	1	0	1	0	6	1	.333	.333	.476	.810
24	Carl Crawford	United States	LF	27	World Series	16	66	9	18	3	2	8	3	10	7	.290	.333	.468	.801
25	Pat Burrell	United States	LF	32	World Series	14	52	3	10	1	3	8	8	13	0	.227	.346	.455	.801
26	Evan Longoria	United States	3B	23	World Series	16	67	10	12	3	6	13	5	20	1	.194	.254	.532	.786
27	Akinori Iwamura	Japan	2B	29	World Series	16	73	8	18	4	1	5	7	12	2	.273	.342	.409	.752
28	Carlos Ruiz	Panama	C	29	World Series	14	52	6	12	3	1	4	6	1	1	.261	.346	.391	.737
29	Russell Martin	Canada	C	25	LCS	8	36	5	6	3	1	6	4	10	1	.200	.333	.400	.733
30	Rafael Furcal	Dominican Republic	SS	31	LCS	8	38	9	8	0	1	3	6	4	0	.258	.378	.355	.733
31	Ryan Braun	United States	LF	25	Division Series	4	17	0	5	2	0	2	0	4	0	.313	.294	.438	.732
32	Matt Kemp	United States	CF	24	LCS	8	32	1	7	3	0	1	4	9	0	.250	.344	.357	.701
33	Dioner Navarro	Venezuela	C	24	World Series	16	62	4	17	4	0	5	4	11	0	.293	.339	.362	.701
34	Casey Blake	United States	3B	35	LCS	8	33	4	8	0	1	4	2	5	0	.267	.333	.367	.700
35	Jimmy Rollins	United States	SS	30	World Series	14	64	10	14	4	2	2	4	13	3	.237	.286	.407	.692
36	David Ortiz	Dominican Republic	DH	33	LCS	11	52	4	8	2	1	5	9	13	0	.186	.327	.349	.676
37	Jason Bartlett	United States	SS	29	World Series	16	58	8	12	1	1	3	4	10	2	.235	.316	.353	.669
38	Ryan Theriot	United States	SS	29	Division Series	3	12	0	3	0	0	0	1	3	0	.273	.333	.273	.606
39	Mark Kotsay	United States	CF	33	LCS	10	40	2	10	3	0	0	0	5	0	.250	.250	.325	.575
40	Jed Lowrie	United States	SS	24	LCS	9	36	4	6	1	0	2	5	7	0	.207	.333	.241	.575
41	Corey Hart	United States	RF	26	Division Series	4	16	0	3	0	0	0	1	3	0	.231	.333	.231	.564
42	Pedro Feliz	Dominican Republic	3B	33	World Series	14	46	1	11	1	0	4	2	6	0	.250	.283	.273	.555
43	Jacoby Ellsbury	United States	CF	25	LCS	8	36	2	6	3	0	7	3	5	3	.188	.250	.281	.531
44	Blake DeWitt	United States	3B	23	LCS	8	26	2	4	2	0	6	1	6	0	.167	.192	.333	.526
45	Aramis Ramirez	Dominican Republic	3B	30	Division Series	3	12	1	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	.182	.250	.273	.523
46	Geovany Soto	Puerto Rico	C	25	Division Series	3	12	0	2	1	0	0	1	3	0	.182	.250	.273	.523
47	Alexei Ramirez	Cuba	2B	27	Division Series	4	15	1	3	0	0	2	1	1	0	.250	.267	.250	.517
48	Andre Ethier	United States	RF	26	LCS	8	37	6	6	1	0	0	5	10	0	.188	.297	.219	.516
49	Mike Cameron	United States	CF	35	Division Series	4	17	3	2	0	0	0	3	4	0	.154	.353	.154	.507
50	Jim Edmonds	United States	CF	38	Division Series	3	10	1	2	1	0	1	0	2	0	.200	.200	.300	.500

Reading this table

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are all measured against a league season, and a dozen clubs playing each other's best pitchers for a month is not one — borrowing the regular season's baselines would print numbers that look comparable and are not. Reached is the last round the player's club played in. The Parquet holds every round as well as the October totals. See the methodology →