1972 Saves Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Saves	Team	Rank
Sparky Lyle	35	New York Yankees	1
Terry Forster	29	Chicago White Sox	2
Rollie Fingers	21	Oakland Athletics	3
Wayne Granger	19	Minnesota Twins	4
Ken Sanders	17	Milwaukee Brewers	5
Horacio Pina	15	Texas Rangers	6
Chuck Seelbach	14	Detroit Tigers	7
Frank Linzy	12	Milwaukee Brewers	8
Fred Scherman	12	Detroit Tigers
Darold Knowles	11	Oakland Athletics	10
Dave LaRoche	10	Minnesota Twins	11
Bob Locker	10	Oakland Athletics
Steve Mingori	10	Cleveland Indians
Tom Burgmeier	9	Kansas City Royals	14
Paul Lindblad	9	Texas Rangers
Grant Jackson	8	Baltimore Orioles	16
Ed Farmer	7	Cleveland Indians	17
Eddie Watt	7	Baltimore Orioles
Ted Abernathy	5	Kansas City Royals	19
Cy Acosta	5	Chicago White Sox
Lloyd Allen	5	California Angels
Bobby Bolin	5	Boston Red Sox
Phil Hennigan	5	Cleveland Indians
Bill Lee	5	Boston Red Sox
Casey Cox	4	Texas Rangers	25
		New York Yankees
Name	Saves	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). 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.