Winning Percentage : 1983 American League Top 25

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1983 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Moose Haas .813 (.81250) Milwaukee Brewers 1
Richard Dotson .759 (.75862) Chicago White Sox 2
Scott McGregor .720 (.72000) Baltimore Orioles 3
La Marr Hoyt .706 (.70588) Chicago White Sox 4
Ron Guidry .700 (.70000) New York Yankees 5
Mike Boddicker .667 (.66667) Baltimore Orioles 6
Ken Schrom .652 (.65217) Minnesota Twins 7
Storm Davis .650 (.65000) Baltimore Orioles 8
Rick Honeycutt .636 (.63636) Texas Rangers 9
Dave Righetti .636 (.63636) New York Yankees  
Dan Petry .633 (.63333) Detroit Tigers 11
Bob Ojeda .632 (.63158) Boston Red Sox 12
Floyd Bannister .615 (.61538) Chicago White Sox 13
Jerry Koosman .611 (.61111) Chicago White Sox 14
Rick Sutcliffe .607 (.60714) Cleveland Indians 15
Jack Morris .606 (.60606) Detroit Tigers 16
Bud Black .588 (.58824) Kansas City Royals 17
Dave Stieb .586 (.58621) Toronto Blue Jays 18
Jim Clancy .577 (.57692) Toronto Blue Jays 19
Charlie Hough .536 (.53571) Texas Rangers 20
Milt Wilcox .524 (.52381) Detroit Tigers 21
Mike Caldwell .522 (.52174) Milwaukee Brewers 22
Lary Sorensen .522 (.52174) Cleveland Indians  
Luis Leal .520 (.52000) Toronto Blue Jays 24
John Tudor .520 (.52000) Boston Red Sox  



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).