Category profile
- Dominance
- 91
- Peak
- 93
- Longevity
- 82
- Honours
- 90
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 20 | |
| 1926 | 16 | |
| 1927 | 47 | |
| 1928 | 27 | |
| 1929 | 35 | |
| 1930 | 41 | |
| 1931 | 46 | |
| 1932 | 34 | |
| 1933 | 32 | |
| 1934 | 49 | |
| 1935 | 30 | |
| 1936 | 49 | |
| 1937 | 37 | |
| 1938 | 29 |
Data sources
- MLB
- Baseball Reference
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Lou Gehrig ranks #36 in Baseball
Lou Gehrig ranks 36th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 378th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 89.9 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 91, Peak 93, Longevity 82, Honours 90, Statistics 94. Those categories are normalised against the full Baseball reference universe of 262 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1923–1939 with 14 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1934, which sets the Peak component at 93. Statistics is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 15% of the final score. The underlying career record includes world series titles 6, mvp awards 2, home runs 493, career rbis 1995.
Immediately ahead sits Mel Ott on 88.0, a gap of -1.9 points. Directly behind is Miguel Cabrera on 88.3. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Lou Gehrig GOAT Score explained
- Dominance91/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Gehrig stood above the field while competing. Scored 91/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak93/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1934. Scored 93/100.
- Longevity82/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 16 years of competition and 14 recorded seasons. Scored 82/100.
- Honours90/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 90/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
Top Gehrig comparisons
Lou Gehrig — frequently asked
- Is Lou Gehrig the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Lou Gehrig ranks 36th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 89.9, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Lou Gehrig's GOAT Score?
- 89.9 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 91 (25%), Peak 93 (20%), Longevity 82 (20%), Honours 90 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Lou Gehrig rank all time?
- 378th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 36th within Baseball.
- Lou Gehrig vs Mel Ott: who ranks higher?
- Lou Gehrig, on 89.9 against Mel Ott's 88.0 — a margin of 1.9 points.