Winning Percentage : 2006 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:

"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)
 

2006 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Roy Halladay .762 (.76190) Toronto Blue Jays 1
Johan Santana .760 (.76000) Minnesota Twins 2
Chien-Ming Wang .760 (.76000) New York Yankees  
Jon Garland .720 (.72000) Chicago White Sox 4
Mike Mussina .682 (.68182) New York Yankees 5
Curt Schilling .682 (.68182) Boston Red Sox  
Kenny Rogers .680 (.68000) Detroit Tigers 7
Ervin Santana .667 (.66667) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 8
Freddy Garcia .654 (.65385) Chicago White Sox 9
Justin Verlander .654 (.65385) Detroit Tigers  
Jeremy Bonderman .636 (.63636) Detroit Tigers 11
Barry Zito .615 (.61538) Oakland Athletics 12
Randy Johnson .607 (.60714) New York Yankees 13
Vicente Padilla .600 (.60000) Texas Rangers 14
Jake Westbrook .600 (.60000) Cleveland Indians  
Josh Beckett .593 (.59259) Boston Red Sox 16
Jose Contreras .591 (.59091) Chicago White Sox 17
Gil Meche .579 (.57895) Seattle Mariners 18
Erik Bedard .577 (.57692) Baltimore Orioles 19
Joe Blanton .571 (.57143) Oakland Athletics 20
Kevin Millwood .571 (.57143) Texas Rangers  
Brad Radke .571 (.57143) Minnesota Twins  
Cliff Lee .560 (.56000) Cleveland Indians 23
John Lackey .542 (.54167) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 24
Ted Lilly .536 (.53571) Toronto Blue Jays 25



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.

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

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.