Category profile
- Dominance
- 86
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 90
- Honours
- 84
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1909 | 0.309 | |
| 1910 | 0.34 | |
| 1911 | 0.334 | |
| 1912 | 0.383 | |
| 1913 | 0.363 | |
| 1914 | 0.338 | |
| 1915 | 0.322 | |
| 1916 | 0.386 | |
| 1917 | 0.352 | |
| 1918 | 0.318 | |
| 1919 | 0.296 | |
| 1920 | 0.388 | |
| 1921 | 0.362 | |
| 1922 | 0.378 | |
| 1923 | 0.38 | |
| 1924 | 0.344 | |
| 1925 | 0.389 | |
| 1926 | 0.304 | |
| 1927 | 0.327 | |
| 1928 | 0.267 |
Data sources
- MLB
- Baseball Reference
- National Baseball Hall of Fame
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Tris Speaker ranks #31 in Baseball
Tris Speaker ranks 31st among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 346th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 88.4 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 86, Peak 90, Longevity 90, Honours 84, 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 1907–1928 with 20 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1925, which sets the Peak component at 90. 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 career hits 3514, career doubles 792, batting average 0.345, world series titles 3.
Immediately ahead sits Adrián Beltré on 87.3, a gap of -1.1 points. Directly behind is Alex Rodriguez 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.
Tris Speaker GOAT Score explained
- Dominance86/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Speaker stood above the field while competing. Scored 86/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1925. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity90/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 21 years of competition and 20 recorded seasons. Scored 90/100.
- Honours84/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 84/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
Top Speaker comparisons
Tris Speaker — frequently asked
- Is Tris Speaker the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Tris Speaker ranks 31st in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 88.4, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Tris Speaker's GOAT Score?
- 88.4 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 86 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 90 (20%), Honours 84 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Tris Speaker rank all time?
- 346th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 31st within Baseball.
- Tris Speaker vs Adrián Beltré: who ranks higher?
- Tris Speaker, on 88.4 against Adrián Beltré's 87.3 — a margin of 1.1 points.