Fastest Players To Hit 3500 Hits
Who was the fastest player to hit 3500 hits?
Ty Cobb is the fastest player to hit 3500 hits, accomplishing it in 2483 games. He hit his 3500th hit on May 24, 1924.
Which active player is on pace to next make the Top 50 list for "Fastest To 3500 Hits"?
Based on their career production, the player most likely to make the "Fastest to 3500 Hits" leaderboard is Jose Altuve, who is currently at 2420 hits, and is projected to reach 3500 H in 897 games, for 2906 total games, which would put him 5th on the leaderboard.
Note: Some players on this leaderboard might show up as having 3501 or 3502 hits, which means they hit multiple Hs in the game in which they crossed the milestone. In order to normalize the modern statistics and the historic ones (for which there is no play-by-play data), all the stats shown here are based on per-game statistics. Meaning that the at-bat total might not be the exact at-bat in which the player reached the milestone, only the number of ABs and PAs they had at the conclusion of the game in which they reached the milestone.
This list filters out players born before 1880, as many of them played in the era pre-1901 before game-level boxscores were available, and thus a specific game number when a milestone was achieved couldn't be presented accurately.
This list filters out players born before 1880, as many of them played in the era pre-1901 before game-level boxscores were available, and thus a specific game number when a milestone was achieved couldn't be presented accurately.