Saves : 1930 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1930 Saves Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Hi Bell 8 St. Louis Cardinals 1
Watty Clark 6 Brooklyn Robins 2
Joe Heving 6 New York Giants  
Jim Lindsey 5 St. Louis Cardinals 4
Bob Smith 5 Boston Braves  
Steve Swetonic 5 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Archie Campbell 4 Cincinnati Reds 7
Pat Malone 4 Chicago Cubs  
Glenn Spencer 4 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Guy Bush 3 Chicago Cubs 10
Phil Collins 3 Philadelphia Phillies  
Joe Genewich 3 New York Giants  
Ray Kolp 3 Cincinnati Reds  
Hub Pruett 3 New York Giants  
Charlie Root 3 Chicago Cubs  
Larry Benton 2 New York Giants 16
Cincinnati Reds  
Ben Cantwell 2 Boston Braves  
Pete Donohue 2 Cincinnati Reds  
New York Giants  
Hal Haid 2 St. Louis Cardinals  
Bill Hallahan 2 St. Louis Cardinals  
Carl Hubbell 2 New York Giants  
Syl Johnson 2 St. Louis Cardinals  
Dolf Luque 2 Brooklyn Robins  
Socks Seibold 2 Boston Braves  
Harry Smythe 2 Philadelphia Phillies  



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.

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.