All-Time Center Fielder WAR Rankings

RANK:
Ranking on our Top 100 List of Center Fielders.

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)

RANK	NAME	HOF	WAR	WAR7	WAR5C	WAR3	JAWS
1	Willie Mays	Y	156.2	73.6	52.3	32.9	114.9
2	Ty Cobb	Y	151.0	69.1	47.7	32.6	110.1
3	Mickey Mantle	Y	110.2	64.8	47.7	33.1	87.5
4	Tris Speaker	Y	134.3	62.2	44.3	29.1	98.3
5	Mike Trout		75.9	65.6	47.0	31.2	70.8
6	Joe DiMaggio	Y	79.1	51.3	38.0	25.4	65.2
7	Ken Griffey Jr.	Y	83.8	53.9	37.8	27.5	68.9
8	Duke Snider	Y	66.0	50.0	38.8	26.3	58.0
9	Kenny Lofton		68.4	43.2	31.0	21.3	55.8
10	Carlos Beltran		70.1	44.3	30.3	21.7	57.2
11	Andre Dawson	Y	64.8	39.1	32.6	20.8	52.0
12	Andruw Jones		62.7	46.3	34.2	22.5	54.5
13	Richie Ashburn	Y	64.4	44.2	31.5	20.6	54.3
14	Jim Edmonds		60.4	42.5	32.1	20.0	51.5
15	Jim Wynn		55.8	43.3	28.6	22.2	49.6
16	Vada Pinson		54.2	40.1	30.7	20.5	47.2
17	Cesar Cedeno		52.8	41.2	31.4	21.3	47.0
18	Willie Davis		60.8	38.7	24.7	19.7	49.8
19	Larry Doby	Y	49.3	39.5	30.1	20.0	44.4
20	Chet Lemon		55.6	37.0	25.7	18.2	46.3
21	Kirby Puckett	Y	51.1	37.5	26.9	20.4	44.3
22	Dale Murphy		46.5	41.0	28.0	21.4	43.8
23	Andrew McCutchen		46.1	37.4	31.6	20.9	41.8
24	Fred Lynn		50.2	38.3	26.6	21.0	44.3
25	Bernie Williams		49.6	36.4	26.7	17.4	43.0
26	Earl Averill	Y	48.0	37.4	25.4	19.5	42.7
27	Wally Berger		42.5	35.7	27.1	18.2	39.1
28	Willie Wilson		46.1	33.8	26.9	21.0	40.0
29	Johnny Damon		56.3	33.0	22.2	16.3	44.7
30	Brett Butler		49.7	35.1	24.0	16.8	42.4
31	Devon White		47.3	35.4	24.5	18.7	41.4
32	Curtis Granderson		47.0	34.3	26.3	18.4	40.7
33	Earle Combs	Y	43.9	34.3	25.7	16.9	39.1
34	Curt Flood		41.9	32.8	23.3	15.8	37.4
35	Pete Reiser		24.4	21.6	26.7	17.9	23.0
36	Ellis Burks		49.8	31.9	19.7	18.2	40.9
37	Torii Hunter		50.7	31.3	20.7	15.6	41.0
38	Paul Blair		37.7	35.5	24.8	19.8	36.6
39	Max Carey	Y	54.5	32.8	22.5	15.3	43.7
40	Hack Wilson	Y	38.2	35.9	30.0	19.5	37.1
41	Lorenzo Cain		37.1	33.3	27.3	19.5	35.2
42	Bobby Murcer		32.1	29.7	26.4	19.7	30.9
43	Andy Van Slyke		41.3	32.7	24.0	17.8	37.0
44	Amos Otis		42.8	32.5	20.7	17.6	37.7
45	Ray Lankford		38.2	31.3	24.0	16.4	34.8
46	Steve Finley		44.2	31.9	18.2	16.5	38.1
47	Edd Roush	Y	45.1	31.7	24.2	16.1	38.4
48	Dom DiMaggio		33.1	26.8	20.4	13.3	30.0
49	Garry Maddox		36.8	30.3	23.8	16.5	33.6
50	Dwayne Murphy		33.2	29.8	23.2	17.1	31.5
51	Eric Davis		36.1	30.0	23.7	17.6	33.1
52	Ben Chapman		41.3	29.5	22.3	15.0	35.4
53	Al Oliver		43.7	27.9	19.4	14.0	35.8
54	Kevin Kiermaier		29.1	27.9	23.9	18.0	28.5
55	Andy Pafko		36.7	29.7	22.3	16.8	33.2
56	George Springer		29.7	26.5	23.3	16.0	28.1
57	Mike Cameron		46.7	32.5	23.9	16.2	39.6
58	Tommy Leach		46.8	31.0	17.9	16.2	38.9
59	Marquis Grissom		29.6	27.5	21.5	15.8	28.6
60	Darin Erstad		32.3	28.7	22.7	18.0	30.5
61	Lenny Dykstra		42.5	32.9	23.4	20.1	37.7
62	Grady Sizemore		27.7	28.2	26.8	19.1	28.0
63	Mickey Rivers		32.7	27.5	22.1	15.2	30.1
64	Fielder Jones		43.2	28.9	21.5	13.8	36.1
65	Willie McGee		34.2	28.4	18.8	17.5	31.3
66	Clyde Milan		40.0	28.2	21.7	14.9	34.1
67	Lance Johnson		30.2	28.0	22.4	17.1	29.1
68	Shane Victorino		31.5	28.5	21.3	15.9	30.0
69	Jacoby Ellsbury		31.0	28.0	20.3	17.6	29.5
70	Bobby Thomson		33.9	26.9	20.6	15.9	30.4
71	Josh Hamilton		28.2	27.1	22.5	18.0	27.7
72	Chili Davis		38.2	24.7	15.6	12.7	31.5
73	Roy Thomas		32.2	31.1	22.3	15.8	31.7
74	Cy Seymour		31.8	28.4	24.1	16.6	30.1
75	Benny Kauff		29.0	29.1	25.1	19.3	29.1
76	Dave Henderson		27.6	27.2	21.3	16.6	27.4
77	Adam Jones		32.5	24.9	20.3	13.0	28.7
78	Lloyd Moseby		27.5	25.7	22.4	17.3	26.6
79	Baby Doll Jacobson		28.4	26.6	20.5	14.7	27.5
80	Johnny Mostil		23.8	24.4	21.4	15.1	24.1
81	Cy Williams		37.2	25.8	18.7	14.0	31.5
82	Tommie Agee		25.4	26.3	21.6	17.0	25.9
83	Vernon Wells		28.6	26.1	20.2	15.2	27.4
84	Bill North		26.8	26.5	19.6	16.9	26.7
85	Cesar Tovar		28.2	25.9	20.2	13.2	27.1
86	Wally Judnich		15.2	15.3	19.0	11.4	15.3
87	Brady Anderson		35.0	30.1	20.6	18.0	32.6
88	Stan Spence		22.5	23.1	23.3	15.3	22.8
89	Jimmy Piersall		29.4	25.3	18.1	14.2	27.4
90	Terry Moore		20.7	17.5	18.4	11.4	19.1
91	Rick Monday		33.1	22.9	16.1	12.0	28.0
92	Tony Gonzalez		27.0	26.4	17.4	14.4	26.7
93	Chick Stahl		31.9	27.1	18.0	14.4	29.5
94	Michael Bourn		22.8	23.8	21.6	16.6	23.3
95	Denard Span		28.1	23.5	17.2	13.5	25.8
96	Barney McCosky		21.2	21.5	16.4	10.9	21.4
97	Ginger Beaumont		30.5	26.3	18.3	13.6	28.4
98	Austin Jackson		21.9	24.1	20.6	15.2	23.0
99	Randy Winn		27.5	24.7	16.3	13.1	26.1
100	Sam West		31.7	22.3	17.9	11.7	27.0
101	Amos Strunk		27.8	24.5	19.0	13.8	26.2
102	Sam Chapman		17.1	17.0	15.0	11.0	17.1
103	Coco Crisp		28.9	24.3	14.1	11.8	26.6
104	Carlos Gomez		24.4	23.0	19.3	14.7	23.7
105	Matt Kemp		21.4	23.6	18.4	16.8	22.5
106	Al Bumbry		24.5	22.0	15.4	13.1	23.3
107	Burt Shotton		23.6	24.1	20.6	14.3	23.9
108	Johnny Frederick		15.4	15.4	14.3	10.7	15.4
109	Stan Javier		25.4	21.4	14.2	11.4	23.4
110	A.J. Pollock		22.0	21.7	17.7	13.4	21.9
111	Matty Alou		23.0	23.4	16.8	13.8	23.2
112	Gorman Thomas		19.8	21.4	20.7	13.0	20.6
113	Mark Kotsay		21.5	22.9	16.6	12.0	22.2
114	Adam Eaton		18.7	19.5	17.4	15.9	19.1
115	Jim Landis		20.6	20.0	17.7	12.7	20.3
116	Lloyd Waner	Y	27.9	20.3	14.0	10.8	24.1
117	Carl Everett		20.5	21.2	15.3	14.2	20.9
118	Bill Bruton		26.3	19.4	13.1	9.8	22.9
119	Aaron Rowand		20.9	18.8	15.7	14.4	19.9
120	Ruppert Jones		22.6	20.5	12.4	11.8	21.6

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