Top 25 Complete Games in 1986 in the American League

Complete Games : 1986 American League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)

1986 Complete Games Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Complete Games Team Rank

Tom Candiotti 17 Cleveland Indians 1

Bert Blyleven 16 Minnesota Twins 2

Teddy Higuera 15 Milwaukee Brewers 3

Jack Morris 15 Detroit Tigers

Mike Witt 14 California Angels 5

Bruce Hurst 11 Boston Red Sox 6

Mike Moore 11 Seattle Mariners

Oil Can Boyd 10 Boston Red Sox 8

Roger Clemens 10 Boston Red Sox

Kirk McCaskill 10 California Angels

Mark Langston 9 Seattle Mariners 11

Mike Morgan 9 Seattle Mariners

Walt Terrell 9 Detroit Tigers

Charlie Leibrandt 8 Kansas City Royals 14

Mike Smithson 8 Minnesota Twins

Joaquin Andujar 7 Oakland Athletics 16

Mike Boddicker 7 Baltimore Orioles

Charlie Hough 7 Texas Rangers

Frank Viola 7 Minnesota Twins

Floyd Bannister 6 Chicago White Sox 20

Jim Clancy 6 Toronto Blue Jays

Danny Darwin 5 Milwaukee Brewers 22

Ron Guidry 5 New York Yankees

Neal Heaton 5 Cleveland Indians

Minnesota Twins

Dennis Leonard 5 Kansas City Royals

Name Complete Games Team Rank

Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second).

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

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?

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