List of Major League Baseball career Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score as a right fielder leaders

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This is a list of the top 100 Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielders in career Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score (JAWS). JAWS is a sabermetric stat developed by statistician Jay Jaffe to determine a player's rank at their position in relation to worthiness for election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Babe Ruth is the all-time leader for right fielders with a value of 124 JAWS. The active leader is Mookie Betts with a value of 51.2 JAWS.

Key

RankRank amongst leaders in career Jaffe Wins Above Replacement. A blank field indicates a tie.
PlayerName of the player.
JAWSTotal career Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score.
*Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame.
BoldDenotes active player.

List

RankPlayerJAWS
1 Babe Ruth *124
2 Hank Aaron *101.7
3 Stan Musial *96.6
4 Mel Ott *82.3
5 Frank Robinson *80
6 Roberto Clemente *74.7
7 Al Kaline *70.8
8 Reggie Jackson *60.4
9 Harry Heilmann *60
10 Paul Waner *59
11 Larry Walker *58.7
12 Sam Crawford *57.5
13 Shoeless Joe Jackson 57.4
14 Tony Gwynn *55.2
15 Dwight Evans 52.3
16 Ichiro Suzuki 51.9
17 Reggie Smith 51.6
18 Sammy Sosa 51.2
Mookie Betts 51.2
20 Dave Winfield *51.1
21 Bobby Abreu 50.9
22 Vladimir Guerrero *50.3
23 Bobby Bonds 49.5
24 Gary Sheffield 49.3
25 Enos Slaughter *47.6
RankPlayerJAWS
26 Elmer Flick *46.8
27 Willie Keeler *45.2
28 Brian Giles 44.2
29 Chuck Klein *42.7
Sam Rice *42.7
31 Jack Clark 42.2
32 Harry Hooper *41.8
33 Kiki Cuyler *41.7
34 Tony Oliva *40.8
35 Giancarlo Stanton 40.1
36 Rocky Colavito 40
37 Rusty Staub 39.5
Bryce Harper 39.5
39 King Kelly *39.1
40 Sam Thompson *38.8
Dave Parker 38.8
42 Darryl Strawberry 38.5
J. D. Drew 38.5
44 Dixie Walker 38.1
45 Felipe Alou 38
46 Ken Singleton 37.8
47 Bill Nicholson 37.7
48 Mike Tiernan 37.5
José Bautista 37.5
50 Jesse Barfield 36.9
RankPlayerJAWS
51 Johnny Callison 36.4
52 Nelson Cruz 36.3
53 Jose Canseco 36.1
Tim Salmon 36.1
55 Jason Heyward 35.6
56 Magglio Ordóñez 35.4
57 Babe Herman 35.3
Tommy Henrich 35.3
Roger Maris 35.3
60 David Justice 35
61 Kirk Gibson 34.2
62 Tommy Holmes 34
63 Juan González 33.9
64 Reggie Sanders 33.3
65 Paul O'Neill 33.2
66 Shawn Green 33.1
67 Aaron Judge 32.6
68 Bob Allison 32.1
Roy Cullenbine 32.1
70 Shin-Soo Choo 31.9
71 Ross Youngs *31.8
72 Brian Jordan 31.7
73 Gavvy Cravath 31.5
74 Wally Moses 31.3
75 George Springer 30.6
RankPlayerJAWS
76 Harold Baines *30.1
Carl Furillo 30.1
78 Nick Markakis 29.1
79 Ken Griffey Sr. 29
80 Hunter Pence 28.5
81 Jayson Werth 28.3
Von Hayes 28.3
83 J. D. Martinez 28.2
84 Alex Ríos 27.8
85 Raúl Mondesí 27.5
86 John Titus 27.3
87 Sixto Lezcano 27.1
88 Hank Bauer 26.5
89 Jackie Jensen 26.3
90 Terry Puhl 26
91 Bob Meusel 25.9
92 Elmer Valo 25.6
93 Bing Miller 25.5
94 Oyster Burns 25.2
95 Socks Seybold 24.7
96 Ival Goodman 24.4
Vic Wertz 24.4
98 Josh Reddick 23.8
99 George Selkirk 23.3
100 Buck Freeman 23

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