Category profile
- Dominance
- 89
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 94
- Honours
- 89
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 0.315 | |
| 1943 | 0.357 | |
| 1944 | 0.347 | |
| 1945 | 0.365 | |
| 1946 | 0.312 | |
| 1947 | 0.376 | |
| 1948 | 0.338 | |
| 1949 | 0.346 | |
| 1950 | 0.355 | |
| 1951 | 0.336 | |
| 1952 | 0.337 | |
| 1953 | 0.351 | |
| 1954 | 0.33 | |
| 1955 | 0.31 | |
| 1956 | 0.351 | |
| 1957 | 0.337 | |
| 1958 | 0.288 | |
| 1959 | 0.255 | |
| 1960 | 0.288 |
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 Stan Musial ranks #8 in Baseball
Stan Musial ranks 8th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 162nd of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 90.9 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 89, Peak 90, Longevity 94, Honours 89, 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 1941–1963 with 19 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1947, which sets the Peak component at 90. Longevity is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes mvp awards 3, world series titles 3, batting titles 7, career hits 3630.
Immediately ahead sits Barry Bonds on 92.3, a gap of 1.4 points. Directly behind is Walter Johnson on 91.7. 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.
Stan Musial GOAT Score explained
- Dominance89/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Musial stood above the field while competing. Scored 89/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1947. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity94/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 22 years of competition and 19 recorded seasons. Scored 94/100.
- Honours89/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 89/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
Top Musial comparisons
Stan Musial — frequently asked
- Is Stan Musial the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Stan Musial ranks 8th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 90.9, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Stan Musial's GOAT Score?
- 90.9 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 89 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 94 (20%), Honours 89 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Stan Musial rank all time?
- 162nd of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 8th within Baseball.
- Stan Musial vs Barry Bonds: who ranks higher?
- Barry Bonds, on 92.3 against Stan Musial's 90.9 — a margin of 1.4 points.