League Leaders Daily Quiz

1946 MLB Runs Batted In by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Runs driven in

The Boston Red Sox led all of MLB in runs batted in in 1946, with 737, 72 ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals. The average across 28 MLB teams is 402.3.

Led all of MLB in 1946 Boston Red Sox 156 games
737 Runs Batted In 72 clear of St. Louis Cardinals
# Team League G RBI
1 Boston Red Sox AL 156 737
2 St. Louis Cardinals NL 156 665
3 New York Yankees AL 154 649
4 Detroit Tigers AL 155 644
5 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 157 642
6 Boston Braves NL 154 596
7 New York Giants NL 154 576
7 St. Louis Browns AL 156 576
9 Chicago Cubs NL 155 566
10 Washington Senators AL 155 554
11 Philadelphia Phillies NL 155 516
12 Chicago White Sox AL 155 515
13 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 155 508
14 Cleveland Indians AL 156 497
15 Philadelphia Athletics AL 155 483
16 Cincinnati Reds NL 156 481
MLB average 402.3
17 Newark Eagles NN2 64 369
18 Homestead Grays NN2 58 310
19 Philadelphia Stars NN2 56 299
20 Baltimore Elite Giants NN2 58 286
21 New York Cubans NN2 50 199
22 Kansas City Monarchs NAL 67 159
23 Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns NAL 69 113
24 New York Black Yankees NN2 46 108
25 Cleveland Buckeyes NAL 68 89
26 Chicago American Giants NAL 80 58
27 Memphis Red Sox NAL 76 39
28 Birmingham Black Barons NAL 66 31

A team's total is its players' numbers for the club added up, so a player traded mid-season counts for each team only what he did there. Rates such as ERA and batting average are worked out from the team's summed totals, not averaged across players.