List of Major League Baseball career slugging percentage leaders

In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (SLG) is a measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats. Unlike batting average, slugging percentage gives more weight to extra-base hits with doubles, triples, and home runs, relative to singles. Plate appearances ending in walks are specifically excluded from this calculation, as an appearance that ends in a walk is not counted as an at-bat.

Babe Ruth, the all-time leader in career slugging percentage.

Among players with at least 3000 plate appearances, Babe Ruth is the all-time leader with a career slugging percentage of .6897. Ted Williams (.6338), Lou Gehrig (.6324), Mule Suttles (.6179), Turkey Stearnes (.6165), Oscar Charleston (.6145), Jimmie Foxx (.6093), Barry Bonds (.6069), and Hank Greenberg (.6050) are the only other players with a career slugging percentage over .600. With the inclusion of Negro league players in MLB statistics, Josh Gibson becomes the career slugging percentage leader with an SLG of .718.

Key

Rank	Rank amongst leaders in career slugging percentage. A blank field indicates a tie.
Player	Name of the player.
SLG	Total career slugging percentage.
*	Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bold	Denotes active player.

List

Aaron Judge, the active leader and 10th all-time in career slugging percentage.

• Stats updated as of August 17, 2024.

Rank	Player	SLG
1	Babe Ruth*	.6897
2	Ted Williams*	.6338
3	Lou Gehrig*	.6324
4	Mule Suttles*	.6179
5	Turkey Stearnes*	.6165
6	Oscar Charleston*	.6145
7	Jimmie Foxx*	.6093
8	Barry Bonds	.6069
9	Hank Greenberg*	.6050
10	Aaron Judge	.6016
11	Mark McGwire	.5882
12	Manny Ramirez	.5854
13	Mike Trout	.5808
14	Joe DiMaggio*	.5788
15	Rogers Hornsby*	.5765
16	Larry Walker*	.5652
17	Shohei Ohtani	.5650
18	Albert Belle	.5638
19	Johnny Mize*	.5620
20	Juan González	.5607
21	Stan Musial*	.5591
22	Mickey Mantle*	.5568
23	Willie Mays*	.5566
24	Frank Thomas*	.5549
25	Hank Aaron*	.5545
26	Jim Thome*	.5541
27	Vladimir Guerrero*	.5525
28	David Ortiz*	.5515
29	Alex Rodriguez	.5502
30	Ralph Kiner*	.5479
31	Carlos Delgado	.5459
32	Mike Piazza*	.5452
33	Hack Wilson*	.5447
34	Albert Pujols	.5438
35	Chuck Klein*	.5430
36	Jeff Bagwell*	.5403
37	Duke Snider*	.5397
38	Todd Helton*	.5391
39	Ken Griffey Jr.*	.5378
40	Frank Robinson*	.5370
41	Lance Berkman	.5369
42	Juan Soto	.5357
43	Willie Wells*	.5355
44	Al Simmons*	.5349
45	Sammy Sosa	.5338
46	Dick Allen	.5336
	Earl Averill*	.5336
48	Mel Ott*	.5331
49	Ryan Braun	.5323
50	Babe Herman	.5319

Rank	Player	SLG
	Lefty O'Doul	.5319
52	Ken Williams	.5304
53	Chipper Jones*	.5293
54	Willie Stargell*	.5286
55	Mike Schmidt*	.5273
56	Jim Edmonds	.5271
57	Giancarlo Stanton	.5263
58	Chick Hafey*	.5261
59	Mookie Betts	.5249
60	Ronald Acuña Jr.	.5248
61	Jud Wilson*	.5237
62	Mo Vaughn	.5231
63	Bryce Harper	.5220
64	Wally Berger	.5216
	Hal Trosky	.5216
66	Nomar Garciaparra	.5206
67	Harry Heilmann*	.5205
68	Dan Brouthers*	.5201
69	Kevin Mitchell	.5198
70	Pete Alonso	.5192
71	Rafael Devers	.5189
	J. D. Martinez	.5189
73	Miguel Cabrera	.5183
74	Nolan Arenado	.5182
75	Charlie Keller	.5177
76	Shoeless Joe Jackson	.5174
77	Jason Giambi	.5164
78	Moisés Alou	.5157
	Josh Hamilton	.5157
80	Edgar Martínez*	.5155
81	Ryan Howard	.5152
82	Willie McCovey*	.5147
83	José Canseco	.5145
	Rafael Palmeiro	.5145
85	Gary Sheffield	.5139
86	Nelson Cruz	.5129
87	Freddie Freeman	.5128
88	Ty Cobb*	.5117
89	Joey Votto	.5110
90	Paul Goldschmidt	.5108
91	Ellis Burks	.5104
92	Matt Holliday	.5102
93	Matt Olson	.5097
94	Corey Seager	.5096
95	Eddie Mathews*	.5094
	Mark Teixeira	.5094
97	Fred McGriff *	.5091
98	Jeff Heath	.5088
99	Harmon Killebrew*	.5085
100	Richie Sexson	.5069

Sources

• "Career Leaders & Records for Slugging %". Baseball-Reference.com.