Winning Percentage : 2001 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:

"What people don't understand is, one day off for Cal Ripken would not recharge his batteries. One day would not do it. He's not playing 2,130 games in a row. Cal is ONLY playing 162 games a year." - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995)
 

2001 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Roger Clemens .870 (.86957) New York Yankees 1
Paul Abbott .810 (.80952) Seattle Mariners 2
C.C. Sabathia .773 (.77273) Cleveland Indians 3
Jamie Moyer .769 (.76923) Seattle Mariners 4
Freddy Garcia .750 (.75000) Seattle Mariners 5
Aaron Sele .750 (.75000) Seattle Mariners  
Mark Mulder .724 (.72414) Oakland Athletics 7
Cory Lidle .684 (.68421) Oakland Athletics 8
Eric Milton .682 (.68182) Minnesota Twins 9
Barry Zito .680 (.68000) Oakland Athletics 10
Mark Buehrle .667 (.66667) Chicago White Sox 11
Tim Hudson .667 (.66667) Oakland Athletics  
Steve Sparks .609 (.60870) Detroit Tigers 13
Mike Mussina .607 (.60714) New York Yankees 14
Andy Pettitte .600 (.60000) New York Yankees 15
Brad Radke .577 (.57692) Minnesota Twins 16
Joe Mays .567 (.56667) Minnesota Twins 17
Hideo Nomo .565 (.56522) Boston Red Sox 18
Ramon Ortiz .542 (.54167) Anaheim Angels 19
Bartolo Colon .538 (.53846) Cleveland Indians 20
Doug Davis .524 (.52381) Texas Rangers 21
Jarrod Washburn .524 (.52381) Anaheim Angels  
Rick Helling .522 (.52174) Texas Rangers 23
Chris Carpenter .500 (.50000) Toronto Blue Jays 24
Esteban Loaiza .500 (.50000) Toronto Blue Jays  



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).