Top 25 Hits in 2004 in the American League

Hits : 2004 American League Top 25

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"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)

2004 Hits Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Hits Team Rank

Ichiro Suzuki 262 Seattle Mariners 1

Michael Young 216 Texas Rangers 2

Vladimir Guerrero 206 Anaheim Angels 3

Miguel Tejada 203 Baltimore Orioles 4

Mark Kotsay 190 Oakland Athletics 5

Johnny Damon 189 Boston Red Sox 6

Derek Jeter 188 New York Yankees 7

Melvin Mora 187 Baltimore Orioles 8

Carl Crawford 185 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 9

Javy Lopez 183 Baltimore Orioles 10

Carlos Lee 180 Chicago White Sox 11

Randy Winn 179 Seattle Mariners 12

Aubrey Huff 178 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 13

Ivan Rodriguez 176 Detroit Tigers 14

David Ortiz 175 Boston Red Sox 15

Manny Ramirez 175 Boston Red Sox

Brian Roberts 175 Baltimore Orioles

Hideki Matsui 174 New York Yankees 18

Hank Blalock 172 Texas Rangers 19

Alex Rodriguez 172 New York Yankees

Chone Figgins 171 Anaheim Angels 21

Lew Ford 170 Minnesota Twins 22

Alfonso Soriano 170 Texas Rangers

Ronnie Belliard 169 Cleveland Indians 24

Carlos Guillen 166 Detroit Tigers 25

Name Hits Team Rank

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).

Future Hall of Famer Sammy Sosa is best known for wearing number twenty-one; however, when the young slugger played for the Chicago White Sox (1989-1991) he only wore number twenty-five.

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