Category profile
- Dominance
- 84
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 90
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 92
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 16 | |
| 1968 | 16 | |
| 1969 | 25 | |
| 1970 | 18 | |
| 1971 | 20 | |
| 1972 | 21 | |
| 1973 | 19 | |
| 1974 | 11 | |
| 1975 | 22 | |
| 1976 | 14 | |
| 1977 | 21 | |
| 1978 | 16 | |
| 1979 | 16 | |
| 1980 | 10 | |
| 1981 | 14 | |
| 1982 | 5 | |
| 1983 | 9 | |
| 1984 | 15 | |
| 1985 | 16 | |
| 1986 | 7 |
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 Tom Seaver ranks #33 in Baseball
Tom Seaver ranks 33rd among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 358th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 88.0 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 84, Peak 90, Longevity 90, Honours 86, Statistics 92. 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 1967–1986 with 20 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1969, which sets the Peak component at 90. Statistics is the defining strength of the profile at 92 out of 100, and it carries 15% of the final score. The underlying career record includes cy young awards 3, career wins 311, strikeouts 3640, world series titles 1.
Immediately ahead sits Alex Rodriguez on 88.3, a gap of 0.3 points. Directly behind is Mike Schmidt on 88.5. 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.
Tom Seaver GOAT Score explained
- Dominance84/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Seaver stood above the field while competing. Scored 84/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1969. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity90/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 19 years of competition and 20 recorded seasons. Scored 90/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics92/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 92/100.
Top Seaver comparisons
Tom Seaver — frequently asked
- Is Tom Seaver the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Tom Seaver ranks 33rd in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 88.0, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Tom Seaver's GOAT Score?
- 88.0 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 84 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 90 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 92 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Tom Seaver rank all time?
- 358th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 33rd within Baseball.
- Tom Seaver vs Alex Rodriguez: who ranks higher?
- Alex Rodriguez, on 88.3 against Tom Seaver's 88.0 — a margin of 0.3 points.