Complete Games : 1999 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)
 

1999 Complete Games Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Randy Johnson 12 Arizona Diamondbacks 1
Curt Schilling 8 Philadelphia Phillies 2
Pedro Astacio 7 Colorado Rockies 3
Kevin Brown 5 Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Andy Ashby 4 San Diego Padres 5
Greg Maddux 4 Atlanta Braves  
Shane Reynolds 4 Houston Astros  
Steve Trachsel 4 Chicago Cubs  
Brian Bohanon 3 Colorado Rockies 9
Mike Hampton 3 Houston Astros  
Jon Lieber 3 Chicago Cubs  
Jose Lima 3 Houston Astros  
Russ Ortiz 3 San Francisco Giants  
Dennis Springer 3 Florida Marlins  
Javier Vazquez 3 Montreal Expos  
Brian Anderson 2 Arizona Diamondbacks 16
Miguel Batista 2 Montreal Expos  
Kris Benson 2 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Sean Bergman 2 Houston Astros  
Atlanta Braves  
Francisco Cordova 2 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Omar Daal 2 Arizona Diamondbacks  
Tom Glavine 2 Atlanta Braves  
Pete Harnisch 2 Cincinnati Reds  
Livan Hernandez 2 Florida Marlins  
San Francisco Giants  
Jose Jimenez 2 St. Louis Cardinals  



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.

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.

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