Top 25 Strikeouts in 1990 in the American League

Strikeouts : 1990 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)

1990 Strikeouts Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Strikeouts Team Rank

Nolan Ryan 232 Texas Rangers 1

Bobby Witt 221 Texas Rangers 2

Erik Hanson 211 Seattle Mariners 3

Roger Clemens 209 Boston Red Sox 4

Mark Langston 195 California Angels 5

Randy Johnson 194 Seattle Mariners 6

Chuck Finley 177 California Angels 7

Matt Young 176 Seattle Mariners 8

Tom Gordon 175 Kansas City Royals 9

Dave Stewart 166 Oakland Athletics 10

Jack McDowell 165 Chicago White Sox 11

Jack Morris 162 Detroit Tigers 12

Melido Perez 161 Chicago White Sox 13

Mike Boddicker 143 Boston Red Sox 14

Tim Leary 138 New York Yankees 15

Greg Swindell 135 Cleveland Indians 16

Chuck Cary 134 New York Yankees 17

Teddy Higuera 129 Milwaukee Brewers 18

Tom Candiotti 128 Cleveland Indians 19

Scott Sanderson 128 Oakland Athletics

Kevin Appier 127 Kansas City Royals 21

Bob Welch 127 Oakland Athletics

Dave Stieb 125 Toronto Blue Jays 23

Pete Harnisch 122 Baltimore Orioles 24

Brian Holman 121 Seattle Mariners 25

Name Strikeouts 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.

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.

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).

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