Slugging Average : 2005 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)
 

2005 Slugging Average Leaders

Top 25 in the National League
Derrek Lee .662 (.66162) Chicago Cubs 1
Albert Pujols .609 (.60914) St. Louis Cardinals 2
Carlos Delgado .582 (.58157) Florida Marlins 3
Ken Griffey, Jr. .576 (.57637) Cincinnati Reds 4
Andruw Jones .575 (.57509) Atlanta Braves 5
Aramis Ramirez .568 (.56803) Chicago Cubs 6
Miguel Cabrera .561 (.56117) Florida Marlins 7
Jason Bay .559 (.55927) Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Morgan Ensberg .557 (.55703) Houston Astros 9
Chad Tracy .553 (.55268) Arizona Diamondbacks 10
Adam Dunn .540 (.53959) Cincinnati Reds 11
Chase Utley .540 (.53959) Philadelphia Phillies  
Todd Helton .534 (.53438) Colorado Rockies 13
Jim Edmonds .533 (.53319) St. Louis Cardinals 14
Lance Berkman .524 (.52350) Houston Astros 15
David Wright .523 (.52348) New York Mets 16
Troy Glaus .522 (.52230) Arizona Diamondbacks 17
Geoff Jenkins .513 (.51301) Milwaukee Brewers 18
Jeff Kent .512 (.51175) Los Angeles Dodgers 19
Cliff Floyd .505 (.50545) New York Mets 20
Matt Holliday .505 (.50522) Colorado Rockies 21
Pat Burrell .504 (.50356) Philadelphia Phillies 22
Jason Lane .499 (.49903) Houston Astros 23
Bill Hall .495 (.49501) Milwaukee Brewers 24
Carlos Lee .487 (.48706) Milwaukee Brewers 25



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.

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).
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