Top 25 Stolen Bases in 2006 in the American League

Stolen Bases : 2006 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)

2006 Stolen Bases Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Stolen Bases Team Rank

Carl Crawford 58 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1

Chone Figgins 52 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2

Corey Patterson 45 Baltimore Orioles 3

Ichiro Suzuki 45 Seattle Mariners

Scott Podsednik 40 Chicago White Sox 5

Brian Roberts 36 Baltimore Orioles 6

Derek Jeter 34 New York Yankees 7

Orlando Cabrera 27 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 8

Luis Castillo 25 Minnesota Twins 9

Johnny Damon 25 New York Yankees

Coco Crisp 22 Boston Red Sox 11

Joey Gathright 22 Tampa Bay Devil Rays

Kansas City Royals

Grady Sizemore 22 Cleveland Indians

Carlos Guillen 20 Detroit Tigers 14

Julio Lugo 18 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 15

Nick Punto 17 Minnesota Twins 16

Vernon Wells 17 Toronto Blue Jays

Willie Bloomquist 16 Seattle Mariners 18

Adam Kennedy 16 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Vladimir Guerrero 15 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 20

Alex Rios 15 Toronto Blue Jays

Alex Rodriguez 15 New York Yankees

Maicer Izturis 14 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 23

Miguel Cairo 13 New York Yankees 24

Melky Cabrera 12 New York Yankees 25

Name Stolen Bases Team Rank

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).

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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