Winning Percentage : 1930 American 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 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Lefty Grove .848 (.84848) Philadelphia Athletics 1
Firpo Marberry .750 (.75000) Washington Senators 2
Bill Shores .750 (.75000) Philadelphia Athletics  
Sam Jones .682 (.68182) Washington Senators 4
Wes Ferrell .658 (.65789) Cleveland Indians 5
Red Ruffing .652 (.65217) Boston Red Sox 6
New York Yankees  
Roy Mahaffey .643 (.64286) Philadelphia Athletics 7
George Earnshaw .629 (.62857) Philadelphia Athletics 8
Lefty Stewart .625 (.62500) St. Louis Browns 9
Herb Pennock .611 (.61111) New York Yankees 10
Ted Lyons .595 (.59459) Chicago White Sox 11
Vic Sorrell .593 (.59259) Detroit Tigers 12
Bump Hadley .577 (.57692) Washington Senators 13
Lloyd Brown .571 (.57143) Washington Senators 14
Earl Whitehill .567 (.56667) Detroit Tigers 15
Rip Collins .563 (.56250) St. Louis Browns 16
Hank Johnson .560 (.56000) New York Yankees 17
Alvin Crowder .529 (.52941) St. Louis Browns 18
Washington Senators  
Mel Harder .524 (.52381) Cleveland Indians 19
Waite Hoyt .524 (.52381) New York Yankees  
Detroit Tigers  
Rube Walberg .520 (.52000) Philadelphia Athletics 21
Pat Caraway .500 (.50000) Chicago White Sox 22
George Pipgras .500 (.50000) New York Yankees  
George Uhle .500 (.50000) Detroit Tigers  
Roy Sherid .480 (.48000) New York Yankees 25



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).

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.