Winning Percentage : 1989 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)
 

1989 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Bret Saberhagen .793 (.79310) Kansas City Royals 1
Bert Blyleven .773 (.77273) California Angels 2
Storm Davis .731 (.73077) Oakland Athletics 3
Scott Bankhead .700 (.70000) Seattle Mariners 4
Dave Stewart .700 (.70000) Oakland Athletics  
Jeff Ballard .692 (.69231) Baltimore Orioles 6
Greg Swindell .684 (.68421) Cleveland Indians 7
Dave Stieb .680 (.68000) Toronto Blue Jays 8
Bob Welch .680 (.68000) Oakland Athletics  
Tom Gordon .654 (.65385) Kansas City Royals 10
Chuck Finley .640 (.64000) California Angels 11
Mike Moore .633 (.63333) Oakland Athletics 12
Allan Anderson .630 (.62963) Minnesota Twins 13
Roy Smith .625 (.62500) Minnesota Twins 14
Nolan Ryan .615 (.61538) Texas Rangers 15
Roger Clemens .607 (.60714) Boston Red Sox 16
Chris Bosio .600 (.60000) Milwaukee Brewers 17
John Dopson .600 (.60000) Boston Red Sox  
Kirk McCaskill .600 (.60000) California Angels  
Mike Boddicker .577 (.57692) Boston Red Sox 20
Mark Gubicza .577 (.57692) Kansas City Royals  
Kevin Brown .571 (.57143) Texas Rangers 22
Tom Candiotti .565 (.56522) Cleveland Indians 23
Bob Milacki .538 (.53846) Baltimore Orioles 24
Bud Black .522 (.52174) Cleveland Indians 25



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

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.