page_title: List of Major League Baseball career at-bat leaders
hierarchical_section_title: List of Major League Baseball career at-bat leaders
context_page_description: 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:
  He receives a base on balls.
  He is hit by a pitch.
  He hits a sacrifice fly or a sacrifice bunt.
  He is awarded first base due to interference or obstruction, usually by the catcher.
  He is replaced by another hitter before his at bat is completed, in which case the plate appearance and any related statistics go to the pinch hitter.
  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.
context_section_description: In baseball, an at bat (AB) 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:
  He receives a base on balls (BB).
  He is hit by a pitch (HBP).
  He hits a sacrifice fly or a sacrifice bunt (also known as sacrifice hit).
  He is awarded first base due to interference or obstruction, usually by the catcher.
  He is replaced by another hitter before his at bat is completed, in which case the plate appearance and any related statistics go to the pinch hitter (unless he is replaced with two strikes and his replacement completes a strikeout, in which case the at bat and strikeout are still charged to the first batter).
  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.
caption: Pete Rose, the all-time leader in at-bats.
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