Saves Records by Baseball Almanac

Saves Records

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for saves — including career saves marks, single season saves plateaus and game related saves records.

"I call Mo (Mariano Rivera) 'The Equalizer.' I mean, I can't tell you how comforting it felt to have him come in when I left the game." - Pitcher Roger Clemens on NYMag.com (Buster Olney, 05/21/2005, 'The Confidence Man', Source)

Saves Records Career Saves Records
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most Saves In A Career (Top 1,000)	AL	Mariano Rivera	New York	603	603
	NL	Trevor Hoffman	Florida	2	601
			San Diego	552
			Milwaukee	47
Saves Records Single Season Saves Records
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most Saves In A Season (Top 500)	AL	Francisco Rodriguez	Los Angeles	62	2008
	NL	Eric Gagne	Los Angeles	55	2003
		John Smoltz	Atlanta		2002
Most Saves In A Season By A Rookie	AL	Neftali Feliz	Texas	40	2010
	NL	Craig Kimbrel	Atlanta	41	2011
Most Saves In Any Month	AL	John Wetteland	New York	15	06-1996
	NL	Chad Cordero	Washington	15	06-2005
		Lee Smith	St. Louis		06-1993
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Saves Records Click Computer to Download Text File With Data From Record Below Single Game Saves Records
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most Saves On Any Given Day	AL	Bobby Jenks	Chicago	2	09-04-2010
					09-04-2010
	NL	Joel Hanrahan	Washington	2	08-07-2008
					08-07-2008
	* Last two appear above. * More than 125 recorded instances in history. * Click computer above to download more.
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Saves Records

Did you know that Major League Baseball saves did not become an officially recognized statistic until the 1969 season? Did you know that the blown save did not become official until 1998?

Baseball Almanac added Bobby Thigpen's fifty-seven save season (in 2001) to our fabulous feats section — see every save of his amazing record setting season.

Baseball Almanac recently added Eric Gagne's consecutive save streak to our fabulous feats section — see every save of his amazing record setting streak.

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