Top 25 Batting Average in 2008 in the American League

Batting Average : 2008 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)

2008 Batting Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Batting Average Team Rank

Joe Mauer .328 (.32836) Minnesota Twins 1

Dustin Pedroia .326 (.32619) Boston Red Sox 2

Milton Bradley .321 (.32126) Texas Rangers 3

Ian Kinsler .319 (.31853) Texas Rangers 4

Magglio Ordonez .317 (.31729) Detroit Tigers 5

Kevin Youkilis .312 (.31227) Boston Red Sox 6

Ichiro Suzuki .311 (.31050) Seattle Mariners 7

David DeJesus .307 (.30695) Kansas City Royals 8

Placido Polanco .307 (.30690) Detroit Tigers 9

Nick Markakis .306 (.30588) Baltimore Orioles 10

Josh Hamilton .304 (.30449) Texas Rangers 11

Aubrey Huff .304 (.30435) Baltimore Orioles 12

Vladimir Guerrero .303 (.30314) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 13

Johnny Damon .303 (.30270) New York Yankees 14

Alex Rodriguez .302 (.30196) New York Yankees 15

Derek Jeter .300 (.30034) New York Yankees 16

Justin Morneau .300 (.30016) Minnesota Twins 17

Jose Lopez .297 (.29658) Seattle Mariners 18

Brian Roberts .296 (.29624) Baltimore Orioles 19

Bobby Abreu .296 (.29557) New York Yankees 20

Raul Ibanez .293 (.29291) Seattle Mariners 21

Garret Anderson .293 (.29264) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 22

Miguel Cabrera .292 (.29221) Detroit Tigers 23

Alex Rios .291 (.29134) Toronto Blue Jays 24

Delmon Young .290 (.29043) Minnesota Twins 25

Name Batting Average Team Rank

Future Hall of Famer Sammy Sosa is best known for wearing number twenty-one; however, when the young slugger played for the Chicago White Sox (1989-1991) he only wore number twenty-five.

The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

Jose Cruz of the Houston Astros had his number twenty-five retired on October 3, 1992, and became the first Major League player with that particular retired number.

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