Top 25 Complete Games in 2006 in the American League

Complete Games : 2006 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:

"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)

2006 Complete Games Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Complete Games Team Rank

C.C. Sabathia 6 Cleveland Indians 1

Roy Halladay 4 Toronto Blue Jays 2

Kris Benson 3 Baltimore Orioles 3

John Lackey 3 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Jake Westbrook 3 Cleveland Indians

A.J. Burnett 2 Toronto Blue Jays 6

Daniel Cabrera 2 Baltimore Orioles

Dan Haren 2 Oakland Athletics

Felix Hernandez 2 Seattle Mariners

Randy Johnson 2 New York Yankees

Esteban Loaiza 2 Oakland Athletics

Kevin Millwood 2 Texas Rangers

Jamie Moyer 2 Seattle Mariners

Mark Redman 2 Kansas City Royals

Jeremy Sowers 2 Cleveland Indians

Chien-Ming Wang 2 New York Yankees

Joe Blanton 1 Oakland Athletics 17

Mark Buehrle 1 Chicago White Sox

Paul Byrd 1 Cleveland Indians

Bartolo Colon 1 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Jose Contreras 1 Chicago White Sox

Kelvim Escobar 1 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Freddy Garcia 1 Chicago White Sox

Jon Garland 1 Chicago White Sox

Devern Hansack 1 Boston Red Sox

Name Complete Games Team Rank

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).

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.

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.

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