Top 25 Winning Percentage in 2005 in the American League

Winning Percentage : 2005 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)

2005 Winning Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

Cliff Lee .783 (.78261) Cleveland Indians 1

John Lackey .737 (.73684) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2

Bartolo Colon .724 (.72414) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 3

Johan Santana .696 (.69565) Minnesota Twins 4

Matt Clement .684 (.68421) Boston Red Sox 5

Jose Contreras .682 (.68182) Chicago White Sox 6

David Wells .682 (.68182) Boston Red Sox

Randy Johnson .680 (.68000) New York Yankees 8

Mark Buehrle .667 (.66667) Chicago White Sox 9

Jamie Moyer .650 (.65000) Seattle Mariners 10

Jon Garland .643 (.64286) Chicago White Sox 11

Freddy Garcia .636 (.63636) Chicago White Sox 12

Kenny Rogers .636 (.63636) Texas Rangers

Chris Young .632 (.63158) Texas Rangers 14

Mike Mussina .619 (.61905) New York Yankees 15

C.C. Sabathia .600 (.60000) Cleveland Indians 16

Gustavo Chacin .591 (.59091) Toronto Blue Jays 17

Bronson Arroyo .583 (.58333) Boston Red Sox 18

Mark Hendrickson .579 (.57895) Tampa Bay Devil Rays 19

Tim Wakefield .571 (.57143) Boston Red Sox 20

Bruce Chen .565 (.56522) Baltimore Orioles 21

Rodrigo Lopez .556 (.55556) Baltimore Orioles 22

Scott Elarton .550 (.55000) Cleveland Indians 23

Dan Haren .538 (.53846) Oakland Athletics 24

Carlos Silva .529 (.52941) Minnesota Twins 25

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

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.

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.

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