List of Major League Baseball career putouts as a first baseman leaders

Jake Beckley, the all-time leader in career putouts by a first basemen.

In baseball statistics, a putout (denoted by PO or fly out when appropriate) is given to a defensive player who records an out by a Tagging a runner with the ball when he is not touching a base (a tagout), catching a batted or thrown ball and tagging a base to put out a batter or runner (a Force out), catching a thrown ball and tagging a base to record an out on an appeal play, catching a third strike (a strikeout), catching a batted ball on the fly (a flyout), or being positioned closest to a runner called out for interference.

First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that player's team. A first baseman is the player on the team playing defense who fields the area nearest first base, and is responsible for the majority of plays made at that base.

Jake Beckley is the all-time leader in career putouts as a first baseman with 23,731. Cap Anson (21,699), Ed Konetchy (21,361), Eddie Murray (21,255), and Charlie Grimm (20,711) are the only other players to record 20,000 career putouts.

Key

Rank	Rank amongst leaders in career putouts. A blank field indicates a tie.
Player	Name of player.
PO as 1B	Total career putouts as a first baseman.
*	denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bold	denotes active player.

List

Albert Pujols, the active leader in putouts as a first basemen and 44th all time.

• Stats updated as of the 2016 season.

Rank	Player	PO as 1B
1	Jake Beckley *	23,731
2	Cap Anson *	21,699
3	Ed Konetchy	21,361
4	Eddie Murray *	21,255
5	Charlie Grimm	20,711
6	Stuffy McInnis	19,962
7	Mickey Vernon	19,808
8	Jake Daubert	19,634
9	Lou Gehrig *	19,510
10	Joe Kuhel	19,386
11	Joe Judge	19,264
12	Fred McGriff	18,985
13	Todd Helton	18,889
14	Steve Garvey	18,844
15	George Sisler *	18,837
16	Wally Pipp	18,779
17	Mark Grace	18,503
18	Jim Bottomley *	18,337
19	Andrés Galarraga	18,224
20	Hal Chase	18,185
21	Keith Hernandez	17,909
22	Fred Tenney	17,903
23	Chris Chambliss	17,771
24	Rafael Palmeiro	17,738
25	Roger Connor *	17,612
26	Jeff Bagwell	17,545
27	Jimmie Foxx *	17,207
28	Willie McCovey *	17,170
29	George Burns	16,892
30	Will Clark	16,695
31	Tommy Tucker	16,401
32	Dan Brouthers *	16,365
33	John Olerud	16,165
34	Wally Joyner	16,081
35	Bill Terry *	15,972
36	Paul Konerko	15,936
37	Harry Davis	15,666
38	Lu Blue	15,644
39	Fred Merkle	15,419
40	George Scott	15,405
41	Gil Hodges	15,344
42	Norm Cash	15,157
43	Carlos Delgado	15,144
44	Albert Pujols	15,048
45	Tino Martinez	15,001
46	Mark Teixeira	14,942
47	Derrek Lee	14,910
48	Johnny Mize *	14,850
49	Tony Pérez *	14,481
50	Orlando Cepeda *	14,459

Rank	Player	PO as 1B
51	Mark McGwire	14,451
52	George Kelly *	14,232
53	Adrian Gonzalez	14,215
54	Don Mattingly	14,148
55	Eric Karros	14,056
56	Bill Buckner	13,901
57	Charles Comiskey *	13,832
58	Frank McCormick	13,798
59	Kent Hrbek	13,725
60	Dolph Camilli	13,724
61	Dan McGann	13,694
62	George McQuinn	13,414
63	Cecil Cooper	13,361
64	Elbie Fletcher	13,237
65	John Mayberry	13,169
66	Fred Luderus	13,126
67	Gus Suhr	13,103
68	Joe Adcock	13,006
69	Lee May	12,885
70	J. T. Snow	12,855
71	Kitty Bransfield	12,797
72	Bill White	12,735
73	George Stovall	12,709
74	Ted Kluszewski	12,652
75	Dick Hoblitzell	12,584
76	Jack Fournier	12,375
77	Ryan Howard	12,351
78	Candy LaChance	12,330
79	Walter Holke	12,158
80	Boog Powell	12,130
81	Hal Trosky	12,124
82	Adam LaRoche	12,072
83	Earl Sheely	12,067
84	Bill Skowron	12,043
85	Ernie Banks *	12,005
86	Jason Thompson	11,818
87	Lyle Overbay	11,755
88	Earl Torgeson	11,680
89	Pete O'Brien	11,651
90	Phil Cavarretta	11,375
91	Rudy York	11,359
92	Mike Hargrove	11,274
93	Justin Morneau	11,239
94	Joe Start	11,197
95	Chick Gandil	11,118
96	Mo Vaughn	10,947
97	Rod Carew *	10,930
98	Donn Clendenon	10,913
99	Carlos Peña	10,900
100	Sean Casey	10,875
	John Reilly	10,875

References

• Baseball-Reference.com