Editing Slugging percentage (section)

==In Major League Baseball==
As an example: with the [[New York Yankees]] in 1920, [[Babe Ruth]] had 458 [[at bat]]s during which he recorded 172 hits: 73 singles, 36 doubles, 9 triples, and 54 home runs.<ref name=Ruth/> This was {{nowrap|(73 × 1)}} + {{nowrap|(36 × 2)}} + {{nowrap|(9 × 3)}} + {{nowrap|(54 × 4)}} = 388 [[total bases]]. His total number of bases (388) divided by his total at-bats (458) is .847, which constitutes his slugging percentage for the season.<ref name=Ruth>{{cite web |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/R/Pruthb101.htm |title=Babe Ruth |website=[[Retrosheet]] |access-date=April 13, 2024}}</ref>

Ruth's 1920 figure set a record in [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB), which stood until 2001 when [[Barry Bonds]] achieved 411 bases in 476 at-bats for a slugging percentage of .863.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B/Pbondb001.htm |title=Barry Bonds |website=[[Retrosheet]] |access-date=April 13, 2024}}</ref><ref name=perSeason/> [[Josh Gibson]], who played in [[Negro league baseball]], had a slugging percentage of .974 in 1937.<ref name=perSeason>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/slugging_perc_season.shtml |title=Single-Season Leaders & Records for Slugging % |website=[[Baseball Reference]] |access-date=2016-12-10}}</ref>{{efn|In late 2020, MLB began recognizing statistics of the seven "major Negro leagues",<ref>{{cite web |last=Anderson |first=R.J. |date=December 16, 2020 |title=MLB Elevates Negro Leagues to 'Major League' Status, Giving 'Overdue Recognition' to 3,400 Players |url=https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-elevates-negro-leagues-to-major-league-status-giving-overdue-recognition-to-3400-players/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216164302/https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-elevates-negro-leagues-to-major-league-status-giving-overdue-recognition-to-3400-players/ |archive-date=December 16, 2020 |access-date=December 18, 2020 |website=[[CBSSports.com]]}}</ref> thus Gibson is now listed as the single-season leader for slugging percentage.}}

Until the 2024 incorporation of [[Negro league]] statistics into major league records, the MLB career leader in slugging percentage was Ruth (.6897), followed by [[Ted Williams]] (.6338) and [[Lou Gehrig]] (.6324).<ref name=Career>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/slugging_perc_career.shtml |title=Career Leaders & Records for Slugging % |website=[[Baseball-Reference.com]] |access-date=April 13, 2024}}</ref> Ruth was displaced by [[Josh Gibson]], who has a career slugging percentage of .718.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Castrovince |first1=Anthony |title=What to know about Negro Leagues stats entering MLB record |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/faq-negro-leagues-stats-major-league-record |access-date=9 June 2024 |work=[[MLB.com]] |date=29 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
{{main|List of Major League Baseball career slugging percentage leaders}}

The maximum possible slugging percentage is 4.000.<ref name="Baseball Scorekeeping: A Practical Guide, 2003"/>  A number of MLB players have had a 4.000 career slugging percentage for a short amount of time by [[List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat|hitting a home run in their first major league at bat]]. However, no player in MLB history has ever retired with a 4.000 slugging percentage. Four players have [[triple (baseball)|triple]]d in their only MLB [[plate appearance]] and therefore share the record—without consideration of a minimum number of [[games played]] or plate appearances—of a career slugging percentage of 3.000. They are [[Eric Cammack]] ([[2000 New York Mets season|2000 Mets]]); [[Scott Munninghoff]] ([[1980 Philadelphia Phillies season|1980 Phillies]]); [[Eduardo Rodríguez (right-handed pitcher)|Eduardo Rodríguez]] ([[1973 Milwaukee Brewers season|1973 Brewers]]); and [[Chuck Lindstrom]] ([[1958 Chicago White Sox season|1958 White Sox]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Slugging Percentage {{!}} The ARMory Power Pitching Academy |url=https://armorypitching.com/slugging-percentage/ |access-date=2020-10-10 |website=armorypitching.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

For the 2023 season, the average slugging percentage for all players in MLB was .414. The highest single-season league average was .437 in 2000, and the lowest was .305 in 1908.<ref name=MLBperSeason>{{cite web |title=Major League Baseball Batting Year-by-Year Averages |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/bat.shtml |website=[[Baseball-Reference.com]] |access-date=April 13, 2024}}</ref>