<P> Set by Tony Mullane whose career spanned from 1881 to 1894 . Mullane pitched through a staggering 4531.1 innings (24 all - time) throwing a total of 343 wild pitches and averaged an errant pitch in 7.56% of those innings . The great Nolan Ryan pitched the second most wild throws with 277 . In today's MLB, the active leader is Félix Hernández with 140, just 40% of Mullane . With modern pitchers throwing fewer innings as well as wild pitches this record is safely unbreakable . </P> <P> Set by Pete Rose, 1963--86 . With the retirement of Derek Jeter at the end of the 2014 season with 3,465 hits, and the retirement at the end of the 2016 season of Alex Rodriguez with 3,115 hits,, no active major league player is at this time considered to be close to breaking Rose's mark . To get within 6 hits of tying Rose, a player would have to collect 250 hits over 17 consecutive seasons, or more than 200 hits over the course of 21 seasons . In the past 81 years, only Ichiro Suzuki has topped 250 hits in a season (with 262 hits in 2004). As of the end of the 2017 season, Ichiro has 3,080 MLB hits and 1,278 hits in the Japanese major leagues for a combined, unofficial total of 4,358, 102 more than Rose's record; however, Ichiro's hits from Japan's major leagues are not counted toward his MLB total . At the same time, Miguel Cabrera (34 years old) has 2,636 hits after 15 seasons; he would have to average slightly above 180 hits over 9 additional seasons to break the record . </P> <P> Set by Ichiro Suzuki, who attained this from 2001--10 . Ichiro's honors since joining the Seattle Mariners from Nippon Professional Baseball at age 27 include winning the 2001 AL Rookie of the Year and MVP awards, claiming the AL batting title in 2001 and 2004, leading the AL in hits in seven seasons (2001, 2004, 2006--10) and breaking George Sisler's 84 - year - old single - season hits record in 2004 with 262 hits . The closest player is Willie Keeler who had 8 consecutive seasons with 200 hits that occurred almost a century prior in the dead - ball era . Only José Altuve, with four consecutive 200 - hit seasons, will enter the 2018 season with a current streak of even two such seasons . </P> <P> Set by Sam Crawford, 1899--1916 . Highlights include: five 20 - triple seasons and sixteen 10 - triple seasons . The next closest player is Ty Cobb, who has 14 fewer triples at 295 . Because of changes in playing styles and conditions that began around 1920 and have continued into the present from the dead - ball era to the live - ball era, the number of triples hit has declined noticeably since then . Among hitters whose entire careers were in the live - ball era, the leader in career triples is Stan Musial, with 177 . </P>

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