Saves : 1939 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:

"I don't think I stayed for a complete game that first year (in Arizona). But something happened. During the second year, I started watching more intently, listening to the broadcasters talk about strategy. I started getting it. Suddenly, a 162-game season didn't seem ridiculously long anymore." - Richard Ruelas in The Arizona Republic (11-07-2001)
 

1939 Saves Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Johnny Murphy 19 New York Yankees 1
Clint Brown 18 Chicago White Sox 2
Chubby Dean 7 Philadelphia Athletics 3
Joe Heving 7 Boston Red Sox  
Pete Appleton 6 Washington Senators 5
Al Benton 5 Detroit Tigers 6
Emerson Dickman 5 Boston Red Sox  
Archie McKain 4 Detroit Tigers 8
Fritz Ostermueller 4 Boston Red Sox  
Willis Hudlin 3 Cleveland Indians 10
Thornton Lee 3 Chicago White Sox  
Al Milnar 3 Cleveland Indians  
Tommy Bridges 2 Detroit Tigers 13
Alex Carrasquel 2 Washington Senators  
Harry Eisenstat 2 Detroit Tigers  
Cleveland Indians  
Bump Hadley 2 New York Yankees  
Oral Hildebrand 2 New York Yankees  
Johnny Humphries 2 Cleveland Indians  
Lefty Mills 2 St. Louis Browns  
Bobo Newsom 2 St. Louis Browns  
Detroit Tigers  
Nels Potter 2 Philadelphia Athletics  
Marius Russo 2 New York Yankees  
Dizzy Trout 2 Detroit Tigers  
Jack Wilson 2 Boston Red Sox  
Joe Dobson 1 Cleveland Indians 25



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

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).