1940 Saves Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Saves	Team	Rank
Al Benton	17	Detroit Tigers	1
Clint Brown	10	Chicago White Sox	2
Johnny Murphy	9	New York Yankees	3
Johnny Allen	5	Cleveland Indians	4
Pete Appleton	5	Chicago White Sox
Ed Heusser	5	Philadelphia Athletics
Jack Wilson	5	Boston Red Sox
Harry Eisenstat	4	Cleveland Indians	8
Bob Feller	4	Cleveland Indians
Roxie Lawson	4	St. Louis Browns
Emerson Dickman	3	Boston Red Sox	11
Joe Dobson	3	Cleveland Indians
Herb Hash	3	Boston Red Sox
Joe Heving	3	Boston Red Sox
Archie McKain	3	Detroit Tigers
Al Milnar	3	Cleveland Indians
Johnny Rigney	3	Chicago White Sox
Jim Bagby	2	Boston Red Sox	18
George Caster	2	Philadelphia Athletics
Bump Hadley	2	New York Yankees
Joe Krakauskas	2	Washington Senators
Walt Masterson	2	Washington Senators
Rene Monteagudo	2	Washington Senators
Al Smith	2	Cleveland Indians
Steve Sundra	2	New York Yankees
Name	Saves	Team	Rank

	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). The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry. 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.