All-Time Center Fielder WAR Rankings
WAR
Career Wins Above Replacement.
WAR7
Top 7 seasons, based on Wins Above Replacement.
WAR5C
Best 5 consecutive seasons by Wins Above Replacement.
WAR3
Top 3 seasons, based on Wins Above Replacement.
JAWS
The average of Career WAR and WAR7. (Stat developed by Jay Jaffe)
| NAME | HOF | WAR | WAR7 | WAR5C | WAR3 | JAWS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willie Mays | Y | 156.2 | 73.6 | 52.3 | 32.9 | 114.9 |
| Ty Cobb | Y | 151.0 | 69.1 | 47.7 | 32.6 | 110.1 |
| Mickey Mantle | Y | 110.2 | 64.8 | 47.7 | 33.1 | 87.5 |
| Tris Speaker | Y | 134.3 | 62.2 | 44.3 | 29.1 | 98.3 |
| Mike Trout | 75.9 | 65.6 | 47.0 | 31.2 | 70.8 | |
| Joe DiMaggio | Y | 79.1 | 51.3 | 38.0 | 25.4 | 65.2 |
| Ken Griffey Jr. | Y | 83.8 | 53.9 | 37.8 | 27.5 | 68.9 |
| Duke Snider | Y | 66.0 | 50.0 | 38.8 | 26.3 | 58.0 |
| Kenny Lofton | 68.4 | 43.2 | 31.0 | 21.3 | 55.8 | |
| Carlos Beltran | 70.1 | 44.3 | 30.3 | 21.7 | 57.2 | |
| Andre Dawson | Y | 64.8 | 39.1 | 32.6 | 20.8 | 52.0 |
| Andruw Jones | 62.7 | 46.3 | 34.2 | 22.5 | 54.5 | |
| Richie Ashburn | Y | 64.4 | 44.2 | 31.5 | 20.6 | 54.3 |
| Jim Edmonds | 60.4 | 42.5 | 32.1 | 20.0 | 51.5 | |
| Jim Wynn | 55.8 | 43.3 | 28.6 | 22.2 | 49.6 | |
| Vada Pinson | 54.2 | 40.1 | 30.7 | 20.5 | 47.2 | |
| Cesar Cedeno | 52.8 | 41.2 | 31.4 | 21.3 | 47.0 | |
| Willie Davis | 60.8 | 38.7 | 24.7 | 19.7 | 49.8 | |
| Larry Doby | Y | 49.3 | 39.5 | 30.1 | 20.0 | 44.4 |
| Chet Lemon | 55.6 | 37.0 | 25.7 | 18.2 | 46.3 | |
| Kirby Puckett | Y | 51.1 | 37.5 | 26.9 | 20.4 | 44.3 |
| Dale Murphy | 46.5 | 41.0 | 28.0 | 21.4 | 43.8 | |
| Andrew McCutchen | 46.1 | 37.4 | 31.6 | 20.9 | 41.8 | |
| Fred Lynn | 50.2 | 38.3 | 26.6 | 21.0 | 44.3 | |
| Bernie Williams | 49.6 | 36.4 | 26.7 | 17.4 | 43.0 | |
| Earl Averill | Y | 48.0 | 37.4 | 25.4 | 19.5 | 42.7 |
| Wally Berger | 42.5 | 35.7 | 27.1 | 18.2 | 39.1 | |
| Willie Wilson | 46.1 | 33.8 | 26.9 | 21.0 | 40.0 | |
| Johnny Damon | 56.3 | 33.0 | 22.2 | 16.3 | 44.7 | |
| Brett Butler | 49.7 | 35.1 | 24.0 | 16.8 | 42.4 | |
| Devon White | 47.3 | 35.4 | 24.5 | 18.7 | 41.4 | |
| Curtis Granderson | 47.0 | 34.3 | 26.3 | 18.4 | 40.7 | |
| Earle Combs | Y | 43.9 | 34.3 | 25.7 | 16.9 | 39.1 |
| Curt Flood | 41.9 | 32.8 | 23.3 | 15.8 | 37.4 | |
| Pete Reiser | 24.4 | 21.6 | 26.7 | 17.9 | 23.0 | |
| Ellis Burks | 49.8 | 31.9 | 19.7 | 18.2 | 40.9 | |
| Torii Hunter | 50.7 | 31.3 | 20.7 | 15.6 | 41.0 | |
| Paul Blair | 37.7 | 35.5 | 24.8 | 19.8 | 36.6 | |
| Max Carey | Y | 54.5 | 32.8 | 22.5 | 15.3 | 43.7 |
| Hack Wilson | Y | 38.2 | 35.9 | 30.0 | 19.5 | 37.1 |
| Lorenzo Cain | 37.1 | 33.3 | 27.3 | 19.5 | 35.2 | |
| Bobby Murcer | 32.1 | 29.7 | 26.4 | 19.7 | 30.9 | |
| Andy Van Slyke | 41.3 | 32.7 | 24.0 | 17.8 | 37.0 | |
| Amos Otis | 42.8 | 32.5 | 20.7 | 17.6 | 37.7 | |
| Ray Lankford | 38.2 | 31.3 | 24.0 | 16.4 | 34.8 | |
| Steve Finley | 44.2 | 31.9 | 18.2 | 16.5 | 38.1 | |
| Edd Roush | Y | 45.1 | 31.7 | 24.2 | 16.1 | 38.4 |
| Dom DiMaggio | 33.1 | 26.8 | 20.4 | 13.3 | 30.0 | |
| Garry Maddox | 36.8 | 30.3 | 23.8 | 16.5 | 33.6 | |
| Dwayne Murphy | 33.2 | 29.8 | 23.2 | 17.1 | 31.5 | |
| Eric Davis | 36.1 | 30.0 | 23.7 | 17.6 | 33.1 | |
| Ben Chapman | 41.3 | 29.5 | 22.3 | 15.0 | 35.4 | |
| Al Oliver | 43.7 | 27.9 | 19.4 | 14.0 | 35.8 | |
| Kevin Kiermaier | 29.1 | 27.9 | 23.9 | 18.0 | 28.5 | |
| Andy Pafko | 36.7 | 29.7 | 22.3 | 16.8 | 33.2 | |
| George Springer | 29.7 | 26.5 | 23.3 | 16.0 | 28.1 | |
| Mike Cameron | 46.7 | 32.5 | 23.9 | 16.2 | 39.6 | |
| Tommy Leach | 46.8 | 31.0 | 17.9 | 16.2 | 38.9 | |
| Marquis Grissom | 29.6 | 27.5 | 21.5 | 15.8 | 28.6 | |
| Darin Erstad | 32.3 | 28.7 | 22.7 | 18.0 | 30.5 | |
| Lenny Dykstra | 42.5 | 32.9 | 23.4 | 20.1 | 37.7 | |
| Grady Sizemore | 27.7 | 28.2 | 26.8 | 19.1 | 28.0 | |
| Mickey Rivers | 32.7 | 27.5 | 22.1 | 15.2 | 30.1 | |
| Fielder Jones | 43.2 | 28.9 | 21.5 | 13.8 | 36.1 | |
| Willie McGee | 34.2 | 28.4 | 18.8 | 17.5 | 31.3 | |
| Clyde Milan | 40.0 | 28.2 | 21.7 | 14.9 | 34.1 | |
| Lance Johnson | 30.2 | 28.0 | 22.4 | 17.1 | 29.1 | |
| Shane Victorino | 31.5 | 28.5 | 21.3 | 15.9 | 30.0 | |
| Jacoby Ellsbury | 31.0 | 28.0 | 20.3 | 17.6 | 29.5 | |
| Bobby Thomson | 33.9 | 26.9 | 20.6 | 15.9 | 30.4 | |
| Josh Hamilton | 28.2 | 27.1 | 22.5 | 18.0 | 27.7 | |
| Chili Davis | 38.2 | 24.7 | 15.6 | 12.7 | 31.5 | |
| Roy Thomas | 32.2 | 31.1 | 22.3 | 15.8 | 31.7 | |
| Cy Seymour | 31.8 | 28.4 | 24.1 | 16.6 | 30.1 | |
| Benny Kauff | 29.0 | 29.1 | 25.1 | 19.3 | 29.1 | |
| Dave Henderson | 27.6 | 27.2 | 21.3 | 16.6 | 27.4 | |
| Adam Jones | 32.5 | 24.9 | 20.3 | 13.0 | 28.7 | |
| Lloyd Moseby | 27.5 | 25.7 | 22.4 | 17.3 | 26.6 | |
| Baby Doll Jacobson | 28.4 | 26.6 | 20.5 | 14.7 | 27.5 | |
| Johnny Mostil | 23.8 | 24.4 | 21.4 | 15.1 | 24.1 | |
| Cy Williams | 37.2 | 25.8 | 18.7 | 14.0 | 31.5 | |
| Tommie Agee | 25.4 | 26.3 | 21.6 | 17.0 | 25.9 | |
| Vernon Wells | 28.6 | 26.1 | 20.2 | 15.2 | 27.4 | |
| Bill North | 26.8 | 26.5 | 19.6 | 16.9 | 26.7 | |
| Cesar Tovar | 28.2 | 25.9 | 20.2 | 13.2 | 27.1 | |
| Wally Judnich | 15.2 | 15.3 | 19.0 | 11.4 | 15.3 | |
| Brady Anderson | 35.0 | 30.1 | 20.6 | 18.0 | 32.6 | |
| Stan Spence | 22.5 | 23.1 | 23.3 | 15.3 | 22.8 | |
| Jimmy Piersall | 29.4 | 25.3 | 18.1 | 14.2 | 27.4 | |
| Terry Moore | 20.7 | 17.5 | 18.4 | 11.4 | 19.1 | |
| Rick Monday | 33.1 | 22.9 | 16.1 | 12.0 | 28.0 | |
| Tony Gonzalez | 27.0 | 26.4 | 17.4 | 14.4 | 26.7 | |
| Chick Stahl | 31.9 | 27.1 | 18.0 | 14.4 | 29.5 | |
| Michael Bourn | 22.8 | 23.8 | 21.6 | 16.6 | 23.3 | |
| Denard Span | 28.1 | 23.5 | 17.2 | 13.5 | 25.8 | |
| Barney McCosky | 21.2 | 21.5 | 16.4 | 10.9 | 21.4 | |
| Ginger Beaumont | 30.5 | 26.3 | 18.3 | 13.6 | 28.4 | |
| Austin Jackson | 21.9 | 24.1 | 20.6 | 15.2 | 23.0 | |
| Randy Winn | 27.5 | 24.7 | 16.3 | 13.1 | 26.1 | |
| Sam West | 31.7 | 22.3 | 17.9 | 11.7 | 27.0 | |
| Amos Strunk | 27.8 | 24.5 | 19.0 | 13.8 | 26.2 | |
| Sam Chapman | 17.1 | 17.0 | 15.0 | 11.0 | 17.1 | |
| Coco Crisp | 28.9 | 24.3 | 14.1 | 11.8 | 26.6 | |
| Carlos Gomez | 24.4 | 23.0 | 19.3 | 14.7 | 23.7 | |
| Matt Kemp | 21.4 | 23.6 | 18.4 | 16.8 | 22.5 | |
| Al Bumbry | 24.5 | 22.0 | 15.4 | 13.1 | 23.3 | |
| Burt Shotton | 23.6 | 24.1 | 20.6 | 14.3 | 23.9 | |
| Johnny Frederick | 15.4 | 15.4 | 14.3 | 10.7 | 15.4 | |
| Stan Javier | 25.4 | 21.4 | 14.2 | 11.4 | 23.4 | |
| A.J. Pollock | 22.0 | 21.7 | 17.7 | 13.4 | 21.9 | |
| Matty Alou | 23.0 | 23.4 | 16.8 | 13.8 | 23.2 | |
| Gorman Thomas | 19.8 | 21.4 | 20.7 | 13.0 | 20.6 | |
| Mark Kotsay | 21.5 | 22.9 | 16.6 | 12.0 | 22.2 | |
| Adam Eaton | 18.7 | 19.5 | 17.4 | 15.9 | 19.1 | |
| Jim Landis | 20.6 | 20.0 | 17.7 | 12.7 | 20.3 | |
| Lloyd Waner | Y | 27.9 | 20.3 | 14.0 | 10.8 | 24.1 |
| Carl Everett | 20.5 | 21.2 | 15.3 | 14.2 | 20.9 | |
| Bill Bruton | 26.3 | 19.4 | 13.1 | 9.8 | 22.9 | |
| Aaron Rowand | 20.9 | 18.8 | 15.7 | 14.4 | 19.9 | |
| Ruppert Jones | 22.6 | 20.5 | 12.4 | 11.8 | 21.6 |