2005 Saves Leaders Top 25 in the National League
Name	Saves	Team	Rank
Chad Cordero	47	Washington Nationals	1
Trevor Hoffman	43	San Diego Padres	2
Brad Lidge	42	Houston Astros	3
Todd Jones	40	Florida Marlins	4
Jason Isringhausen	39	St. Louis Cardinals	5
Derrick Turnbow	39	Milwaukee Brewers
Billy Wagner	38	Philadelphia Phillies	7
Ryan Dempster	33	Chicago Cubs	8
Brian Fuentes	31	Colorado Rockies	9
Braden Looper	28	New York Mets	10
Jose Mesa	27	Pittsburgh Pirates	11
Tyler Walker	23	San Francisco Giants	12
Yhency Brazoban	21	Los Angeles Dodgers	13
Armando Benitez	19	San Francisco Giants	14
Chris Reitsma	15	Atlanta Braves	15
Jose Valverde	15	Arizona Diamondbacks
David Weathers	15	Cincinnati Reds
Brandon Lyon	14	Arizona Diamondbacks	18
Brian Bruney	12	Arizona Diamondbacks	19
Dan Kolb	11	Atlanta Braves	20
Kyle Farnsworth	10	Atlanta Braves	21
Danny Graves	10	Cincinnati Reds
		New York Mets
Eric Gagne	8	Los Angeles Dodgers	23
Duaner Sanchez	8	Los Angeles Dodgers
LaTroy Hawkins	6	Chicago Cubs	25
		San Francisco Giants
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. 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. 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).