2008 Bases on Balls Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Bases on Balls	Team	Rank
Jack Cust	111	Oakland Athletics	1
Nick Markakis	99	Baltimore Orioles	2
Grady Sizemore	98	Cleveland Indians	3
B.J. Upton	97	Tampa Bay Rays	4
Carlos Pena	96	Tampa Bay Rays	5
Jim Thome	91	Chicago White Sox	6
Joe Mauer	84	Minnesota Twins	7
Brian Roberts	82	Baltimore Orioles	8
Nick Swisher	82	Chicago White Sox
Milton Bradley	80	Texas Rangers	10
J.D. Drew	79	Boston Red Sox	11
Jason Giambi	76	New York Yankees	12
Justin Morneau	76	Minnesota Twins
Lyle Overbay	74	Toronto Blue Jays	14
Bobby Abreu	73	New York Yankees	15
Curtis Granderson	71	Detroit Tigers	16
Kevin Millar	71	Baltimore Orioles
Akinori Iwamura	70	Tampa Bay Rays	18
David Ortiz	70	Boston Red Sox
Alex Gordon	66	Kansas City Royals	20
Carlos Quentin	66	Chicago White Sox
Daric Barton	65	Oakland Athletics	22
Paul Konerko	65	Chicago White Sox
Alex Rodriguez	65	New York Yankees
Johnny Damon	64	New York Yankees	25
Name	Bases on Balls	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. 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). The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.