Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 90
- Honours
- 82
- Statistics
- 92
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 4 | |
| 1920 | 6 | |
| 1921 | 19 | |
| 1922 | 19 | |
| 1923 | 17 | |
| 1924 | 18 | |
| 1925 | 11 | |
| 1926 | 16 | |
| 1927 | 22 | |
| 1928 | 23 | |
| 1929 | 10 | |
| 1930 | 11 | |
| 1931 | 3 | |
| 1932 | 5 | |
| 1933 | 5 | |
| 1934 | 15 | |
| 1935 | 7 | |
| 1936 | 7 |
Data sources
- MLB.com
- 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 Waite Hoyt ranks #148 in Baseball
Waite Hoyt ranks 148th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 1452nd of 2289 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 86.2 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 90, Longevity 90, Honours 82, 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 1918–1938 with 18 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1928, 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 world series titles 3, career wins 237, career strikeouts 1206, world series wins 6.
Immediately ahead sits Mickey Cochrane on 86.2, a gap of 0.0 points. Directly behind is Bruce Sutter on 86.2. 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.
Waite Hoyt GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Hoyt stood above the field while competing. Scored 80/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1928. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity90/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 20 years of competition and 18 recorded seasons. Scored 90/100.
- Honours82/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 82/100.
- Statistics92/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 92/100.
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Waite Hoyt — frequently asked
- Is Waite Hoyt the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Waite Hoyt ranks 148th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 86.2, behind Babe Ruth on 94.6.
- What is Waite Hoyt's GOAT Score?
- 86.2 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 90 (20%), Honours 82 (20%), Statistics 92 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Waite Hoyt rank all time?
- 1452nd of 2289 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 148th within Baseball.
- Waite Hoyt vs Mickey Cochrane: who ranks higher?
- Waite Hoyt, on 86.2 against Mickey Cochrane's 86.2 — a margin of 0.0 points.