Top 25 Shutouts in 1978 in the American League

Shutouts : 1978 American League Top 25

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"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)

1978 Shutouts Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Shutouts Team Rank

Ron Guidry 9 New York Yankees 1

Mike Caldwell 6 Milwaukee Brewers 2

Jim Palmer 6 Baltimore Orioles

Luis Tiant 5 Boston Red Sox 4

Jack Billingham 4 Detroit Tigers 5

Fergie Jenkins 4 Texas Rangers

Dennis Leonard 4 Kansas City Royals

Scott McGregor 4 Baltimore Orioles

Frank Tanana 4 California Angels

Dennis Eckersley 3 Boston Red Sox 10

Rich Gale 3 Kansas City Royals

Nolan Ryan 3 California Angels

Lary Sorensen 3 Milwaukee Brewers

Bill Travers 3 Milwaukee Brewers

Jim Wright 3 Boston Red Sox

Jerry Augustine 2 Milwaukee Brewers 16

Francisco Barrios 2 Chicago White Sox

Steve Comer 2 Texas Rangers

Ed Figueroa 2 New York Yankees

Mike Flanagan 2 Baltimore Orioles

Dave Goltz 2 Minnesota Twins

Larry Gura 2 Kansas City Royals

Jesse Jefferson 2 Toronto Blue Jays

John Henry Johnson 2 Oakland Athletics

Ken Kravec 2 Chicago White Sox

Name Shutouts Team Rank

The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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).

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.

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