1998 Games Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Games	Team	Rank
Sean Runyan	88	Detroit Tigers	1
Paul Quantrill	82	Toronto Blue Jays	2
Greg Swindell	81	Minnesota Twins	3
		Boston Red Sox
Eddie Guardado	79	Minnesota Twins	4
Dan Plesac	78	Toronto Blue Jays	5
Mike Trombley	77	Minnesota Twins	6
Buddy Groom	75	Oakland Athletics	7
Tom Gordon	73	Boston Red Sox	8
Scott Service	73	Kansas City Royals
Alan Mills	72	Baltimore Orioles	10
Armando Benitez	71	Baltimore Orioles	11
Billy Taylor	70	Oakland Athletics	12
Mike Timlin	70	Seattle Mariners
Matt Whisenant	70	Kansas City Royals
Paul Assenmacher	69	Cleveland Indians	15
Mike Jackson	69	Cleveland Indians
Jesse Orosco	69	Baltimore Orioles
Rick Aguilera	68	Minnesota Twins	18
Eric Gunderson	68	Texas Rangers
Jim Mecir	68	Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Roberto Hernandez	67	Tampa Bay Devil Rays	21
Troy Percival	67	Anaheim Angels
Mike Stanton	67	New York Yankees
T.J. Mathews	66	Oakland Athletics	24
Todd Jones	65	Detroit Tigers	25
Name	Games	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. 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).