Top 25 Earned Run Average in 2001 in the American League

Earned Run Average : 2001 American League Top 25

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"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)

2001 Earned Run Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Earned Run Average Team Rank

Freddy Garcia 3.05 (3.0545) Seattle Mariners 1

Mike Mussina 3.15 (3.1487) New York Yankees 2

Joe Mays 3.16 (3.1583) Minnesota Twins 3

Mark Buehrle 3.29 (3.2937) Chicago White Sox 4

Tim Hudson 3.37 (3.3702) Oakland Athletics 5

Jamie Moyer 3.43 (3.4340) Seattle Mariners 6

Mark Mulder 3.45 (3.4535) Oakland Athletics 7

Barry Zito 3.49 (3.4852) Oakland Athletics 8

Roger Clemens 3.51 (3.5129) New York Yankees 9

Cory Lidle 3.59 (3.5904) Oakland Athletics 10

Aaron Sele 3.60 (3.6000) Seattle Mariners 11

Steve Sparks 3.65 (3.6466) Detroit Tigers 12

Jarrod Washburn 3.77 (3.7707) Anaheim Angels 13

Tim Wakefield 3.90 (3.8952) Boston Red Sox 14

Brad Radke 3.94 (3.9425) Minnesota Twins 15

Andy Pettitte 3.99 (3.9917) New York Yankees 16

Jeff Weaver 4.08 (4.0814) Detroit Tigers 17

Jason Johnson 4.09 (4.0867) Baltimore Orioles 18

Bartolo Colon 4.09 (4.0885) Cleveland Indians 19

Chris Carpenter 4.09 (4.0896) Toronto Blue Jays 20

Paul Abbott 4.25 (4.2515) Seattle Mariners 21

Eric Milton 4.32 (4.3233) Minnesota Twins 22

Ramon Ortiz 4.36 (4.3562) Anaheim Angels 23

Jeff Suppan 4.37 (4.3695) Kansas City Royals 24

C.C. Sabathia 4.39 (4.3919) Cleveland Indians 25

Name Earned Run Average Team Rank

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

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 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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