Batting Average : 2004 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

2004 Batting Average Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Barry Bonds .362 (.36193) San Francisco Giants 1
Todd Helton .347 (.34735) Colorado Rockies 2
Mark Loretta .335 (.33548) San Diego Padres 3
Adrian Beltre .334 (.33445) Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Albert Pujols .331 (.33108) St. Louis Cardinals 5
Juan Pierre .326 (.32596) Florida Marlins 6
Sean Casey .324 (.32399) Cincinnati Reds 7
Jason Kendall .319 (.31882) Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Aramis Ramirez .318 (.31810) Chicago Cubs 9
Lance Berkman .316 (.31618) Houston Astros 10
Scott Rolen .314 (.31400) St. Louis Cardinals 11
Johnny Estrada .314 (.31385) Atlanta Braves 12
Shea Hillenbrand .310 (.30961) Arizona Diamondbacks 13
Jack Wilson .308 (.30828) Pittsburgh Pirates 14
Tony Womack .307 (.30741) St. Louis Cardinals 15
J.D. Drew .305 (.30502) Atlanta Braves 16
Bobby Abreu .301 (.30139) Philadelphia Phillies 17
Jim Edmonds .301 (.30120) St. Louis Cardinals 18
Lyle Overbay .301 (.30052) Milwaukee Brewers 19
Sean Burroughs .298 (.29828) San Diego Padres 20
Placido Polanco .298 (.29821) Philadelphia Phillies 21
Miguel Cabrera .294 (.29353) Florida Marlins 22
Aaron Miles .293 (.29310) Colorado Rockies 23
Moises Alou .293 (.29285) Chicago Cubs 24
Mike Lowell .293 (.29264) Florida Marlins 25



The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

Future Hall of Famer Sammy Sosa is best known for wearing number twenty-one; however, when the young slugger played for the Chicago White Sox (1989-1991) he only wore number twenty-five.

Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox — including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.