Top 25 Wins in 1988 in the American League

Wins : 1988 American 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)

1988 Wins Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Wins Team Rank

Frank Viola 24 Minnesota Twins 1

Dave Stewart 21 Oakland Athletics 2

Mark Gubicza 20 Kansas City Royals 3

Roger Clemens 18 Boston Red Sox 4

Bruce Hurst 18 Boston Red Sox

Greg Swindell 18 Cleveland Indians

Bob Welch 17 Oakland Athletics 7

Allan Anderson 16 Minnesota Twins 8

Storm Davis 16 Oakland Athletics

Teddy Higuera 16 Milwaukee Brewers

Dave Stieb 16 Toronto Blue Jays

Charlie Hough 15 Texas Rangers 12

Mark Langston 15 Seattle Mariners

Jack Morris 15 Detroit Tigers

Doyle Alexander 14 Detroit Tigers 15

Tom Candiotti 14 Cleveland Indians

John Farrell 14 Cleveland Indians

Bret Saberhagen 14 Kansas City Royals

Frank Tanana 14 Detroit Tigers

Don August 13 Milwaukee Brewers 20

Mike Boddicker 13 Baltimore Orioles

Boston Red Sox

John Candelaria 13 New York Yankees

Mike Flanagan 13 Toronto Blue Jays

Charlie Leibrandt 13 Kansas City Royals

Jerry Reuss 13 Chicago White Sox

Name Wins 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.

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).

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.

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