Top 25 Strikeouts in 1992 in the American League

Strikeouts : 1992 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)

1992 Strikeouts Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Strikeouts Team Rank

Randy Johnson 241 Seattle Mariners 1

Melido Perez 218 New York Yankees 2

Roger Clemens 208 Boston Red Sox 3

Jose Guzman 179 Texas Rangers 4

Jack McDowell 178 Chicago White Sox 5

Mark Langston 174 California Angels 6

Kevin Brown 173 Texas Rangers 7

Charles Nagy 169 Cleveland Indians 8

Juan Guzman 165 Toronto Blue Jays 9

John Smiley 163 Minnesota Twins 10

Ben McDonald 158 Baltimore Orioles 11

Nolan Ryan 157 Texas Rangers 12

Kevin Appier 150 Kansas City Royals 13

Kevin Tapani 138 Minnesota Twins 14

Jack Morris 132 Toronto Blue Jays 15

Jim Abbott 130 California Angels 16

Mike Mussina 130 Baltimore Orioles

Dave Stewart 130 Oakland Athletics

Bill Wegman 127 Milwaukee Brewers 19

Bobby Witt 125 Texas Rangers 20

Oakland Athletics

Danny Darwin 124 Boston Red Sox 21

Chuck Finley 124 California Angels

Frank Viola 121 Boston Red Sox 23

Chris Bosio 120 Milwaukee Brewers 24

Jimmy Key 117 Toronto Blue Jays 25

Name Strikeouts Team Rank

Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox � including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.

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.

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