Wins : 1959 American League Top 25

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"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1959 Wins Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Early Wynn 22 Chicago White Sox 1
Cal McLish 19 Cleveland Indians 2
Bob Shaw 18 Chicago White Sox 3
Jim Bunning 17 Detroit Tigers 4
Frank Lary 17 Detroit Tigers  
Don Mossi 17 Detroit Tigers  
Camilo Pascual 17 Washington Senators  
Gary Bell 16 Cleveland Indians 8
Bud Daley 16 Kansas City Athletics  
Whitey Ford 16 New York Yankees  
Milt Pappas 15 Baltimore Orioles 11
Hoyt Wilhelm 15 Baltimore Orioles  
Paul Foytack 14 Detroit Tigers 13
Duke Maas 14 New York Yankees  
Billy Pierce 14 Chicago White Sox  
Jerry Casale 13 Boston Red Sox 16
Art Ditmar 13 New York Yankees  
Pedro Ramos 13 Washington Senators  
Jim Perry 12 Cleveland Indians 19
Hal Brown 11 Baltimore Orioles 20
Ike Delock 11 Boston Red Sox  
Ray Herbert 11 Kansas City Athletics  
Jerry Walker 11 Baltimore Orioles  
Tom Brewer 10 Boston Red Sox 24
Ned Garver 10 Kansas City Athletics  



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

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).