Top 25 Saves in 2007 in the American League

Saves : 2007 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:

"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)

2007 Saves Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Saves Team Rank

Joe Borowski 45 Cleveland Indians 1

Bobby Jenks 40 Chicago White Sox 2

J.J. Putz 40 Seattle Mariners

Francisco Rodriguez 40 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Todd Jones 38 Detroit Tigers 5

Joe Nathan 37 Minnesota Twins 6

Jonathan Papelbon 37 Boston Red Sox

Jeremy Accardo 30 Toronto Blue Jays 8

Mariano Rivera 30 New York Yankees

Al Reyes 26 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 10

Alan Embree 17 Oakland Athletics 11

Joakim Soria 17 Kansas City Royals

Eric Gagne 16 Texas Rangers 13

Boston Red Sox

Chris Ray 16 Baltimore Orioles

Huston Street 16 Oakland Athletics

C.J. Wilson 12 Texas Rangers 16

Octavio Dotel 11 Kansas City Royals 17

Jamie Walker 7 Baltimore Orioles 18

Joaquin Benoit 6 Texas Rangers 19

Casey Janssen 6 Toronto Blue Jays

Hideki Okajima 5 Boston Red Sox 21

Akinori Otsuka 4 Texas Rangers 22

David Riske 4 Kansas City Royals

Danys Baez 3 Baltimore Orioles 24

Rafael Betancourt 3 Cleveland Indians

Name Saves 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.

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.

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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