One .300 Batting Average in a league: AL 1968, NL 2025.

Trea Turner

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Centerfielder

Bats: Right  •  Throws: Right

6-1, 185lb (185cm, 83kg)

Team: Philadelphia Phillies (majors, 10-day IL)

Born: June 30, 1993 (Age: 32-090d) in Boynton Beach, FL us

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1968-batting-leaders.shtml

Batting Average

1.	Yastrzemski • BOS	.301
2.	Cater • OAK	.290
3.	Oliva • MIN	.289
4.	Horton • DET	.285
5.	Uhlaender • MIN	.283
6.	Davalillo • 2TM	.277
7.	Buford • BAL	.282	**
8.	Campaneris • OAK	.276
9.	Harrelson • BOS	.275
10.	Howard • WSA	.274

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/2025-batting-leaders.shtml

Batting Average

1.	Turner • PHI	.304
2.	Hoerner • CHC	.297
3.	Freeman • LAD	.294
4.	Arráez • SDP	.292
5.	Perdomo • ARI	.291
6.	Frelick • MIL	.290
7.	Burleson • STL	.290
8.	Turang • MIL	.287
9.	Bohm • PHI	.287
	Donovan • STL	.287

And both leaders had pretty big leads over #2.

Runs per Game:

AL 1968: 3.41

NL 2025: 4.48

That 1968 AL batting led to the colossally stupid Designated Hitter (DH) rule in 1973, They should have just gone to a Designated Fielder and 8 batters.

In recent years rule changes that should have helped batters:

- bigger bases, making first base a little closer to home plate, and second base closer to first (making a force out less likely)

- eliminating the shift: fielders cannot load up on one side of the field.

And yet in 2025 we have one .300 BA in NL and only six in the AL. But four with 50 HR, two in each league:

Home Runs

1.	Raleigh • SEA	60
2.	Schwarber • PHI	56
3.	Ohtani • LAD	54
4.	Judge • NYY	53
5.	Suárez • 2TM	49
6.	Caminero • TBR	45
7.	Soto • NYM	43
8.	Alonso • NYM	38
9.	Adell • LAA	37
10.	Greene • DET	36
	Ward • LAA	36

Strikeouts

1.	Wood • WSN	218
2.	Greene • DET	201
3.	Schwarber • PHI	196
4.	Suárez • 2TM	194
5.	Devers • 2TM	191
6.	Arozarena • SEA	190
7.	Raleigh • SEA	187
8.	McMahon • 2TM	186
9.	Ohtani • LAD	185
10.	De La Cruz • CIN	180

Plenty of SO in 2025. But in 1968:

Strikeouts

1.	Jackson • OAK	171
2.	Clendenon • PIT	163
3.	Allen • PHI	161
4.	Monday • OAK	143
5.	Howard • WSA	141
6.	Wynn • HOU	131
7.	Knoop • CAL	128
8.	Brock • STL	124
9.	Reichardt • CAL	118
10.	Belanger • BAL	114
	Shannon • STL	114

Reggie Jackson would not even be #10 in 2025. Only one batter with 40 HR in 1968:

Home Runs

1.	Howard • WSA	44
2.	Horton • DET	36
	McCovey • SFG	36
4.	Harrelson • BOS	35
5.	Allen • PHI	33
6.	Banks • CHC	32
7.	Williams • CHC	30
8.	Aaron • ATL	29
	Jackson • OAK	29
10.	Santo • CHC	26
	Wynn • HOU	26

I think the players are better than ever in 2025 but the game isn't. It's amazing the batters can hit the ball at all with all the velocity pitchers have. But it's supposed to be about fielding and base running, not SO and HR trots.