How to Use on-base percentage in a Sentence

on-base percentage

noun

• The Cardinals have the fifth-best team on-base percentage in the majors at .330.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 12 Aug. 2023
• The Cardinals have the seventh-best team on-base percentage in the majors at .329.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 10 Sep. 2023
• Over the last 14 days the Angels have the tenth-best average against right-handed pitching and the eighth-best on-base percentage.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• Taveras’ on-base percentage is a concern, as the Rangers aren’t anywhere close to their production from last year.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• Even as the batting average and on-base percentage (.285) bottomed out the last two seasons, the promise of the pop in his swing remained.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2023
• His homers and RBIs are just a tick better per game since the punch, but his on-base percentage and batting average are markedly worse.
  — Stefan Stevenson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
• Of the nine regulars in the Dodgers’ lineup, however, the only one with a lower on-base percentage than Ohtani is Max Muncy.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• Now both players will vie for time at first with LaMonte Wade, who posted a .373 on-base percentage.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• That contact and his good on-base percentage should be helpful to Los Angeles.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Boone chose Wells for the leadoff spot despite a career .312 on-base percentage that matched the MLB average last season.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• His plan is built on hitter KPIs, like home runs, on-base percentage, and batting average.
  — Damon Stafford, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• Red Sox hitters have a collective .329 on-base percentage, the eighth-best percentage in MLB play.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• The defense is a real issue, but Torres has a lifetime .334 on-base percentage.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
• Only his teammate Aaron Judge has a higher on-base percentage over the last three seasons; Soto’s never had one that didn’t start with a four.
  — Tim Britton, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
• Dodgers hitters have a collective .342 on-base percentage, the best percentage in MLB play.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2023
• Ogden has already started every game for Miami and entered the week hitting over .330 with one of the team’s highest on-base percentages.
  — Noah Gulley, Miami Herald, 6 May 2025
• Winter acquisitions Kolten Wong and Teoscar Hernández should boost the on-base percentage and run production.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Judge led the majors in a host of categories, including home runs (58), runs batted in, walks, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and total bases.
  — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
• His batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage have all declined in each of his four MLB seasons.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• The on-base percentage led all Rangers’ minor leaguers at full-season affiliates.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Despite the ongoing dismissal of bunting, Jones said the skill will eventually see an uptick as players seek novel ways to boost on-base percentage by any means necessary.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 19 June 2024
• The Angels’ on-base percentage is the worst in baseball, lower even than the historically awful Colorado Rockies.
  — Sam Blum, New York Times, 2 May 2025
• His wOBA, which measures overall offensive value and is scaled to match on-base percentage, was .066 higher when not being shifted against.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• However, strikeout are still a huge problem, and his on-base percentage remained under .300, tracking with career norms.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2025
• So wOBA is basically looking at the things that happen in the batter's box (on-base percentage, slugging), weighting it against parks and providing a value, right?
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
• The Louisiana native entered this week with the best on-base percentage of any Monarchs player and ranked top 5 in the American Association in walks drawn.
  — Cal Friedman, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2024
• He is credited with laying the groundwork for the modern-day Orioles and pioneering now-common tactics such as using on-base percentage to evaluate hitters and limiting the pitch counts of young hurlers.
  — Paul McCardell, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2024
• Judge led the majors in home runs, runs batted in, on-base percentage, slugging, and two different measures of WAR, an advanced metric to gauge how many more wins a player is worth than an average-level player at his position.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
• From runs per game and plate appearances to home runs, RBIs, and on-base percentage, these two teams dominated in nearly every major offensive category.
  — Giovanni Malloy, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• For a player who’s never turned in a season with an on-base percentage over .325, there’s risk that Santander eventually becomes a player almost completely dependent on home runs to maintain his value.
  — Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024