Top 25 Strikeouts in 1970 in the American League

Strikeouts : 1970 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)

1970 Strikeouts Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Strikeouts Team Rank

Sam McDowell 304 Cleveland Indians 1

Mickey Lolich 230 Detroit Tigers 2

Bob Johnson 206 Kansas City Royals 3

Jim Palmer 199 Baltimore Orioles 4

Ray Culp 197 Boston Red Sox 5

Mike Cuellar 190 Baltimore Orioles 6

Dave McNally 185 Baltimore Orioles 7

Tom Hall 184 Minnesota Twins 8

Catfish Hunter 178 Oakland Athletics 9

Jim Perry 168 Minnesota Twins 10

Rudy May 164 California Angels 11

Andy Messersmith 162 California Angels 12

Marty Pattin 161 Milwaukee Brewers 13

Les Cain 156 Detroit Tigers 14

Ken Brett 155 Boston Red Sox 15

Gary Peters 155 Boston Red Sox

Joe Coleman 152 Washington Senators 17

Chuck Dobson 149 Oakland Athletics 18

Sonny Siebert 142 Boston Red Sox 19

Tommy John 138 Chicago White Sox 20

Bert Blyleven 135 Minnesota Twins 21

Dick Bosman 134 Washington Senators 22

Lew Krausse 130 Milwaukee Brewers 23

Dick Drago 127 Kansas City Royals 24

Fritz Peterson 127 New York Yankees

Name Strikeouts Team Rank

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.

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.

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).

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