Category profile
- Dominance
- 84
- Peak
- 88
- Longevity
- 88
- Honours
- 94
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 11 | |
| 1948 | 14 | |
| 1949 | 20 | |
| 1950 | 28 | |
| 1951 | 27 | |
| 1952 | 30 | |
| 1953 | 27 | |
| 1954 | 22 | |
| 1955 | 27 | |
| 1956 | 30 | |
| 1957 | 24 | |
| 1958 | 22 | |
| 1959 | 19 | |
| 1960 | 15 | |
| 1961 | 22 | |
| 1962 | 10 | |
| 1963 | 8 |
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 Yogi Berra ranks #39 in Baseball
Yogi Berra ranks 39th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 393rd of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 87.9 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 84, Peak 88, Longevity 88, Honours 94, Statistics 86. 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 1946–1965 with 17 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1952, which sets the Peak component at 88. Honours 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 world series titles 10, mvp awards 3, all-star selections 18, home runs 358.
Immediately ahead sits Rogers Hornsby on 89.5, a gap of 1.6 points. Directly behind is Ozzie Smith on 86.8. 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.
Yogi Berra GOAT Score explained
- Dominance84/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Berra stood above the field while competing. Scored 84/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak88/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1952. Scored 88/100.
- Longevity88/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 19 years of competition and 17 recorded seasons. Scored 88/100.
- Honours94/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 94/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
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Yogi Berra — frequently asked
- Is Yogi Berra the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Yogi Berra ranks 39th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 87.9, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Yogi Berra's GOAT Score?
- 87.9 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 84 (25%), Peak 88 (20%), Longevity 88 (20%), Honours 94 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Yogi Berra rank all time?
- 393rd of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 39th within Baseball.
- Yogi Berra vs Rogers Hornsby: who ranks higher?
- Rogers Hornsby, on 89.5 against Yogi Berra's 87.9 — a margin of 1.6 points.