List of Major League Baseball career at-bat leaders


In baseball, an at bat or time at bat is a batter's turn batting against a pitcher. An at bat is different from a plate appearance. A batter is credited with a plate appearance regardless of what happens during his turn at bat. A batter is only credited with an at bat if that plate appearance does not have one of the results enumerated below:
While at bats are used to calculate certain statistics, including batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage, a player can only qualify for the season-ending rankings in these categories if he accumulates 502 plate appearances during the season.
Pete Rose is the all-time leader in at bats with 14,053. Rose is also the only player in MLB history with more than 13,000 career at bats. There are only 29 players in MLB history that have reached 10,000 career at bats, with Albert Pujols being the only one active.

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RankPlayer AB
1Pete Rose14,053
2Hank Aaron *12,364
3Carl Yastrzemski *11,988
4Cal Ripken, Jr. *11,551
5Ty Cobb *11,434
6Eddie Murray *11,336
7Derek Jeter *11,195
8Adrián Beltré11,068
9Robin Yount *11,008
10Dave Winfield *11,003
11Stan Musial *10,972
12Rickey Henderson *10,961
13Willie Mays *10,881
14Craig Biggio *10,876
15Paul Molitor *10,835
16Albert Pujols 10,707
17Brooks Robinson *10,654
18Omar Vizquel10,586
19Alex Rodriguez10,566
20Rafael Palmeiro10,472
21Honus Wagner *10,439
22George Brett *10,349
23Lou Brock *10,332
24Cap Anson *10,281
25Luis Aparicio *10,231
26Tris Speaker10,195
27Al Kaline *10,116
28Rabbit Maranville *10,078
29Frank Robinson *10,006
30Eddie Collins *9,949
31Ichiro Suzuki9,934
32Andre Dawson *9,927
33Harold Baines *9,908
34Reggie Jackson *9,864
35Barry Bonds9,847
36Ken Griffey Jr. *9,801
37Tony Pérez *9,778
38Carlos Beltrán9,768
39Johnny Damon9,736
40Rusty Staub9,720
41Vada Pinson9,645
42Iván Rodríguez *9,592
43Nap Lajoie *9,589
44Sam Crawford *9,570
45Jake Beckley *9,551
46Paul Waner *9,459
47Mel Ott *9,456
48Roberto Clemente *9,454
49Ernie Banks *9,421
50Bill Buckner9,397