With every passing year, the dream of a player hitting .400 continues to fade.

The 2026 season will be the 75th Major League campaign since the last .400 season by a qualifying hitter: 1941, when the great Ted Williams hit .406. Sure, there have been flirtations since , but barring major changes in the sport, it sure is hard to imagine any player keeping up a .400 average for a full season.

But what if we shifted our focus to a different milestone? Ever since the “Moneyball” A’s of the early 2000s, it’s generally accepted that on-base percentage, not batting average, is what matters most. A .400 OBP is impressive, of course, but hardly historic -- so what about .500?

In MLB’s Expansion Era (since 1961), only Barry Bonds has posted a .500 on-base percentage in a season -- four straight

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