1970 Saves Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Saves	Team	Rank
Ron Perranoski	34	Minnesota Twins	1
Lindy McDaniel	29	New York Yankees	2
Darold Knowles	27	Washington Senators	3
Tom Timmermann	27	Detroit Tigers
Mudcat Grant	24	Oakland Athletics	5
Wilbur Wood	21	Chicago White Sox	6
Sparky Lyle	20	Boston Red Sox	7
Ken Tatum	17	California Angels	8
Jack Aker	16	New York Yankees	9
Stan Williams	15	Minnesota Twins	10
Pete Richert	13	Baltimore Orioles	11
Ken Sanders	13	Milwaukee Brewers
Ted Abernathy	12	Kansas City Royals	13
Eddie Watt	12	Baltimore Orioles
Dennis Higgins	11	Cleveland Indians	15
Mel Queen	9	California Angels	16
Eddie Fisher	8	California Angels	17
Fred Lasher	8	Detroit Tigers
		Cleveland Indians
Bob Locker	7	Milwaukee Brewers	19
		Oakland Athletics
Gary Wagner	7	Boston Red Sox
Joe Grzenda	6	Washington Senators	21
Horacio Pina	6	Washington Senators
Vicente Romo	6	Boston Red Sox
Paul Doyle	5	California Angels	24
Andy Messersmith	5	California Angels
Name	Saves	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. 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).