Wins : 1921 American League Top 25

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"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
 

1921 Wins Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Carl Mays 27 New York Yankees 1
Urban Shocker 27 St. Louis Browns  
Red Faber 25 Chicago White Sox 3
Stan Coveleski 23 Cleveland Indians 4
Sam Jones 23 Boston Red Sox  
Waite Hoyt 19 New York Yankees 6
Dickey Kerr 19 Chicago White Sox  
George Mogridge 18 Washington Senators 8
Bob Shawkey 18 New York Yankees  
Tom Zachary 18 Washington Senators  
Walter Johnson 17 Washington Senators 11
Joe Bush 16 Boston Red Sox 12
Dixie Davis 16 St. Louis Browns  
Eddie Rommel 16 Philadelphia Athletics  
George Uhle 16 Cleveland Indians  
Jim Bagby 14 Cleveland Indians 16
Duster Mails 14 Cleveland Indians  
Howard Ehmke 13 Detroit Tigers 18
Allen Sothoron 13 St. Louis Browns  
Boston Red Sox  
Cleveland Indians  
Herb Pennock 12 Boston Red Sox 20
Bill Bayne 11 St. Louis Browns 21
Rip Collins 11 New York Yankees  
Slim Harriss 11 Philadelphia Athletics  
Dutch Leonard 11 Detroit Tigers  
Red Oldham 11 Detroit Tigers  



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.

The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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).