Winning Percentage : 1927 National 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
 

1927 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Larry Benton .708 (.70833) Boston Braves 1
New York Giants  
Jesse Haines .706 (.70588) St. Louis Cardinals 2
Burleigh Grimes .704 (.70370) New York Giants 3
Ray Kremer .704 (.70370) Pittsburgh Pirates  
Grover Alexander .677 (.67742) St. Louis Cardinals 5
Carmen Hill .667 (.66667) Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Lee Meadows .655 (.65517) Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Dutch Henry .647 (.64706) New York Giants 8
Charlie Root .634 (.63415) Chicago Cubs 9
Freddie Fitzsimmons .630 (.62963) New York Giants 10
Red Lucas .621 (.62069) Cincinnati Reds 11
Vic Aldridge .600 (.60000) Pittsburgh Pirates 12
Bill Sherdel .586 (.58621) St. Louis Cardinals 13
Joe Genewich .579 (.57895) Boston Braves 14
Virgil Barnes .560 (.56000) New York Giants 15
Jakie May .556 (.55556) Cincinnati Reds 16
Hal Carlson .552 (.55172) Philadelphia Phillies 17
Chicago Cubs  
Eppa Rixey .545 (.54545) Cincinnati Reds 18
Dolf Luque .520 (.52000) Cincinnati Reds 19
Dazzy Vance .516 (.51613) Brooklyn Robins 20
Guy Bush .500 (.50000) Chicago Cubs 21
Sheriff Blake .481 (.48148) Chicago Cubs 22
Flint Rhem .455 (.45455) St. Louis Cardinals 23
Kent Greenfield .448 (.44828) New York Giants 24
Boston Braves  
Dutch Ulrich .421 (.42105) Philadelphia Phillies 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.

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).

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.