slugging percentage

noun

variants or less commonly slugging average

baseball

: a statistic that reflects a batter's ability to get extra-base hits and that is expressed as a ratio (such as a rate per thousand) of the total number of bases reached on base hits (with one base for a single, two for a double, three for a triple, and four for a home run) to official times at bat

He drove in 118 runs, batted .289 and had the highest slugging percentage (.618) in the majors.

—Ron Fimrite

Quentin finished last week second in the American League in home runs (14), RBIs (48) and slugging percentage (.571) and sixth in on-base percentage (.396).

—Jon Heyman

The 28-year-old reached career-best figures in runs, RBIs, doubles (35), home runs (23) and slugging average (.505).

—Jim Allen

Examples of slugging percentage in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The cutter was relatively effective (.416 expected opponent slugging percentage), as was his sweeper (.428 XSLG), but left-handed hitters teed off on his four-seamer (.778 XSLG) and change-up (.509 XSLG). —Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025

Last year’s Twins were 11th in runs scored and slugging percentage. —Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025

Primarily an outfielder, Reynolds hit .226 with a .306 on-base percentage and .296 slugging percentage in 513 MLB games. —Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025

Only Schmidt and Mathews topped both that on-base percentage and slugging percentage. —Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for slugging percentage

• centage