Winning Percentage : 1918 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:

"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
 

1918 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Sam Jones .762 (.76190) Boston Red Sox 1
Fritz Coumbe .650 (.65000) Cleveland Indians 2
Babe Ruth .650 (.65000) Boston Red Sox  
Walter Johnson .639 (.63889) Washington Senators 4
Guy Morton .636 (.63636) Cleveland Indians 5
Stan Coveleski .629 (.62857) Cleveland Indians 6
Carl Mays .618 (.61765) Boston Red Sox 7
Bernie Boland .583 (.58333) Detroit Tigers 8
Reb Russell .583 (.58333) Chicago White Sox  
Bert Gallia .571 (.57143) St. Louis Browns 10
Dutch Leonard .571 (.57143) Boston Red Sox  
Jim Shaw .571 (.57143) Washington Senators  
George Mogridge .552 (.55172) New York Yankees 13
Ray Caldwell .529 (.52941) New York Yankees 14
Harry Harper .524 (.52381) Washington Senators 15
Slim Love .520 (.52000) New York Yankees 16
Jim Bagby .515 (.51515) Cleveland Indians 17
Scott Perry .513 (.51282) Philadelphia Athletics 18
Joe Benz .500 (.50000) Chicago White Sox 19
Joe Bush .500 (.50000) Boston Red Sox  
Allen Sothoron .500 (.50000) St. Louis Browns  
Dave Davenport .476 (.47619) St. Louis Browns 22
George Cunningham .462 (.46154) Detroit Tigers 23
Doc Ayers .455 (.45455) Washington Senators 24
Tom Rogers .444 (.44444) St. Louis Browns 25



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.

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).