Top 25 Slugging Average in 2005 in the American League

Slugging Average : 2005 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)

2005 Slugging Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Slugging Average Team Rank

Alex Rodriguez .610 (.60992) New York Yankees 1

David Ortiz .604 (.60399) Boston Red Sox 2

Travis Hafner .595 (.59465) Cleveland Indians 3

Manny Ramirez .594 (.59386) Boston Red Sox 4

Mark Teixeira .575 (.57453) Texas Rangers 5

Vladimir Guerrero .565 (.56538) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 6

Richie Sexson .541 (.54122) Seattle Mariners 7

Jason Giambi .535 (.53477) New York Yankees 8

Paul Konerko .534 (.53391) Chicago White Sox 9

Jhonny Peralta .520 (.51984) Cleveland Indians 10

Mike Sweeney .517 (.51702) Kansas City Royals 11

Jay Gibbons .516 (.51639) Baltimore Orioles 12

Miguel Tejada .515 (.51529) Baltimore Orioles 13

Brian Roberts .515 (.51515) Baltimore Orioles 14

Michael Young .513 (.51347) Texas Rangers 15

David Dellucci .513 (.51264) Texas Rangers 16

Jermaine Dye .512 (.51229) Chicago White Sox 17

Gary Sheffield .512 (.51199) New York Yankees 18

Alfonso Soriano .512 (.51177) Texas Rangers 19

Jorge Cantu .497 (.49666) Tampa Bay Devil Rays 20

Hideki Matsui .496 (.49603) New York Yankees 21

Jason Varitek .489 (.48936) Boston Red Sox 22

Grady Sizemore .484 (.48438) Cleveland Indians 23

Victor Martinez .475 (.47532) Cleveland Indians 24

Melvin Mora .474 (.47386) Baltimore Orioles 25

Name Slugging Average 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.

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.

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.

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