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Major League Baseball History
All-Time

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Top Designated Hitters by Decade

based on Wins Above Replacement

2010's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
David Ortiz	4	2010	2013	10.8
Billy Butler	4	2010	2013	9.1
Edwin Encarnacion	4	2010	2013	8.4

2000's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
David Ortiz	10	2000	2009	29.7
Frank Thomas	9	2000	2008	20.9
Travis Hafner	8	2002	2009	20.2

1990's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Edgar Martinez	10	1990	1999	51.6
Paul Molitor	9	1990	1998	29.0
Jose Canseco	10	1990	1999	25.8

1980's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Ken Phelps	10	1980	1989	10.5
Hal McRae	8	1980	1987	10.4
Don Baylor	9	1980	1988	9.3

1970's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Hal McRae	10	1970	1979	18.4
Rico Carty	9	1970	1979	16.7
Ron Blomberg	7	1971	1978	9.3

1960's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

1950's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

1940's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

1930's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

1920's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

1910's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

1900's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

1890's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

1880's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

1870's

Player	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
				0.0

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The statistics used were obtained free of charge from The Baseball Databank.

Wins Above Replacement data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.

Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet.
Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org".

Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James