On Base Percentage : 2001 National 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)
 

2001 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League
Barry Bonds .515 (.51506) San Francisco Giants 1
Larry Walker .449 (.44925) Colorado Rockies 2
Sammy Sosa .437 (.43741) Chicago Cubs 3
Todd Helton .432 (.43165) Colorado Rockies 4
Lance Berkman .430 (.43023) Houston Astros 5
Luis Gonzalez .429 (.42857) Arizona Diamondbacks 6
Chipper Jones .427 (.42688) Atlanta Braves 7
Gary Sheffield .417 (.41748) Los Angeles Dodgers 8
Jim Edmonds .410 (.41021) St. Louis Cardinals 9
Brian Giles .404 (.40356) Pittsburgh Pirates 10
Albert Pujols .403 (.40296) St. Louis Cardinals 11
Jeff Bagwell .397 (.39749) Houston Astros 12
Moises Alou .396 (.39587) Houston Astros 13
Bobby Abreu .393 (.39347) Philadelphia Phillies 14
Cliff Floyd .390 (.38951) Florida Marlins 15
Phil Nevin .388 (.38782) San Diego Padres 16
Mark Grace .386 (.38587) Arizona Diamondbacks 17
Ryan Klesko .384 (.38401) San Diego Padres 18
Mike Piazza .384 (.38394) New York Mets 19
Craig Biggio .382 (.38215) Houston Astros 20
Scott Rolen .378 (.37825) Philadelphia Phillies 21
Juan Pierre .378 (.37818) Colorado Rockies 22
Vladimir Guerrero .377 (.37705) Montreal Expos 23
Paul Lo Duca .374 (.37354) Los Angeles Dodgers 24
Shawn Green .372 (.37233) Los Angeles Dodgers 25



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.

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.
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