Complete Games : 2002 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:

"What people don't understand is, one day off for Cal Ripken would not recharge his batteries. One day would not do it. He's not playing 2,130 games in a row. Cal is ONLY playing 162 games a year." - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995)
 

2002 Complete Games Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Randy Johnson 8 Arizona Diamondbacks 1
A.J. Burnett 7 Florida Marlins 2
Livan Hernandez 5 San Francisco Giants 3
Curt Schilling 5 Arizona Diamondbacks  
Bartolo Colon 4 Montreal Expos 5
Ryan Dempster 4 Florida Marlins  
Cincinnati Reds  
Odalis Perez 4 Los Angeles Dodgers  
Glendon Rusch 4 Milwaukee Brewers  
Kerry Wood 4 Chicago Cubs  
Pedro Astacio 3 New York Mets 10
Matt Clement 3 Chicago Cubs  
Jon Lieber 3 Chicago Cubs  
Brett Tomko 3 San Diego Padres  
Randy Wolf 3 Philadelphia Phillies  
Tom Glavine 2 Atlanta Braves 15
Brian Lawrence 2 San Diego Padres  
Al Leiter 2 New York Mets  
Tomo Ohka 2 Montreal Expos  
Russ Ortiz 2 San Francisco Giants  
Jason Schmidt 2 San Francisco Giants  
Javier Vazquez 2 Montreal Expos  
Jimmy Anderson 1 Pittsburgh Pirates 22
Mike Bacsik 1 New York Mets  
Miguel Batista 1 Arizona Diamondbacks  
Andy Benes 1 St. Louis Cardinals  



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.

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).