Stolen Bases : 2004 American 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:

"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)
 

2004 Stolen Bases Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Carl Crawford 59 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1
Ichiro Suzuki 36 Seattle Mariners 2
Chone Figgins 34 Anaheim Angels 3
Brian Roberts 29 Baltimore Orioles 4
Alex Rodriguez 28 New York Yankees 5
Derek Jeter 23 New York Yankees 6
Matt Lawton 23 Cleveland Indians  
Torii Hunter 21 Minnesota Twins 8
Julio Lugo 21 Tampa Bay Devil Rays  
Randy Winn 21 Seattle Mariners  
Coco Crisp 20 Cleveland Indians 11
Lew Ford 20 Minnesota Twins  
Johnny Damon 19 Boston Red Sox 13
Willie Harris 19 Chicago White Sox  
Alex Sanchez 19 Detroit Tigers  
Omar Vizquel 19 Cleveland Indians  
Jeff DaVanon 18 Anaheim Angels 17
Alfonso Soriano 18 Texas Rangers  
Rocco Baldelli 17 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 19
Eric Byrnes 17 Oakland Athletics  
Aaron Rowand 17 Chicago White Sox  
David Eckstein 16 Anaheim Angels 22
Darin Erstad 16 Anaheim Angels  
Vladimir Guerrero 15 Anaheim Angels 24
Adam Kennedy 15 Anaheim Angels  



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).

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.

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.