Meet baseball's new GOAT, Josh Gibson, after Negro Leagues' stats added to MLB

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Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that statistics from the Negro Leagues have been added to the MLB database.

MLB elevated Negro Leagues stats to "major league" in 2020, a move MLB said was "a longtime oversight in the game's history."

Since then, MLB has been working with the Elias Sports Bureau to figure out a way to incorporate them into the league's database.

The move shook things up in the baseball record books. For example, Willie Mays has 10 more hits, and Satchel Paige went from 28 wins to 125.

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A portrait of baseball great Josh Gibson in a Homestead Grays baseball uniform. Known as the "Black Babe Ruth" for his home run prowess, Gibson played for the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead Grays in the Negro Leagues. He never had the opportunity to play in the major leagues because he died a few months before Jackie Robinson's historic debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. (Getty Images)

But there may now be a new best baseball player of all time.

His name was Josh Gibson. He was a Negro League star catcher who, despite Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier, actually might just be the best player the Negro Leagues had ever seen.

But now he's in the conversation as the best player the sport has ever seen in any league.

Because of the revamping of the system, Gibson now holds the records for highest career batting average (.372, surpassing Ty Cobb's .367), slugging percentage (.718, formerly held by Babe Ruth's .690) and OPS (1.177, beating Ruth's 1.164). His .459 career on-base percentage ranks third all-time.

Gibson also holds several single-season records. His .446