2003 Saves Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Saves	Team	Rank
Keith Foulke	43	Oakland Athletics	1
Eddie Guardado	41	Minnesota Twins	2
Mariano Rivera	40	New York Yankees	3
Jorge Julio	36	Baltimore Orioles	4
Troy Percival	33	Anaheim Angels	5
Mike MacDougal	27	Kansas City Royals	6
Lance Carter	26	Tampa Bay Devil Rays	7
Ugueth Urbina	26	Texas Rangers
Danys Baez	25	Cleveland Indians	9
Shigetoshi Hasegawa	16	Seattle Mariners	10
Byung-Hyun Kim	16	Boston Red Sox
Francisco Cordero	15	Texas Rangers	12
Aquilino Lopez	14	Toronto Blue Jays	13
Tom Gordon	12	Chicago White Sox	14
Cliff Politte	12	Toronto Blue Jays
Billy Koch	11	Chicago White Sox	16
Damaso Marte	11	Chicago White Sox
Kazuhiro Sasaki	10	Seattle Mariners	18
Brandon Lyon	9	Boston Red Sox	19
Jeff Nelson	8	Seattle Mariners	20
		New York Yankees
David Riske	8	Cleveland Indians
Juan Acevedo	6	New York Yankees	22
		Toronto Blue Jays
Franklyn German	5	Detroit Tigers	23
Chris Mears	5	Detroit Tigers
Jeremy Affeldt	4	Kansas City Royals	25
Name	Saves	Team	Rank

	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. 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.