Top 25 Saves in 1985 in the National League

Saves : 1985 National League Top 25

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"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)

1985 Saves Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Saves Team Rank

Jeff Reardon 41 Montreal Expos 1

Lee Smith 33 Chicago Cubs 2

Ted Power 27 Cincinnati Reds 3

Dave Smith 27 Houston Astros

Goose Gossage 26 San Diego Padres 5

Bruce Sutter 23 Atlanta Braves 6

Jeff Lahti 19 St. Louis Cardinals 7

Tom Niedenfuer 19 Los Angeles Dodgers

Roger McDowell 17 New York Mets 9

Jesse Orosco 17 New York Mets

Kent Tekulve 14 Pittsburgh Pirates 11

Philadelphia Phillies

Scott Garrelts 13 San Francisco Giants 12

John Franco 12 Cincinnati Reds 13

Ken Howell 12 Los Angeles Dodgers

Ken Dayley 11 St. Louis Cardinals 15

John Candelaria 9 Pittsburgh Pirates 16

Tim Burke 8 Montreal Expos 17

Don Carman 7 Philadelphia Phillies 18

Mark Davis 7 San Francisco Giants

Frank DiPino 6 Houston Astros 20

CeciIio Guante 5 Pittsburgh Pirates 21

Al Holland 5 Philadelphia Phillies

Pittsburgh Pirates

Lance McCullers 5 San Diego Padres

Todd Worrell 5 St. Louis Cardinals

Warren Brusstar 4 Chicago Cubs 25

Name Saves Team Rank

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?

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.

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.

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