Winning Percentage : 2007 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

2007 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League
Justin Verlander .750 (.75000) Detroit Tigers 1
Josh Beckett .741 (.74074) Boston Red Sox 2
C.C. Sabathia .731 (.73077) Cleveland Indians 3
Chien-Ming Wang .731 (.73077) New York Yankees  
Erik Bedard .722 (.72222) Baltimore Orioles 5
Kelvim Escobar .720 (.72000) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 6
Fausto Carmona .704 (.70370) Cleveland Indians 7
Roy Halladay .696 (.69565) Toronto Blue Jays 8
John Lackey .679 (.67857) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 9
Felix Hernandez .667 (.66667) Seattle Mariners 10
Paul Byrd .652 (.65217) Cleveland Indians 11
Javier Vazquez .652 (.65217) Chicago White Sox  
Jered Weaver .650 (.65000) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 13
Dan Haren .625 (.62500) Oakland Athletics 14
Andy Pettitte .625 (.62500) New York Yankees  
James Shields .600 (.60000) Tampa Bay Devil Rays 16
Miguel Batista .593 (.59259) Seattle Mariners 17
Scott Kazmir .591 (.59091) Tampa Bay Devil Rays 18
Tim Wakefield .586 (.58621) Boston Red Sox 19
Joe Blanton .583 (.58333) Oakland Athletics 20
Jeremy Guthrie .583 (.58333) Baltimore Orioles  
Brian Bannister .571 (.57143) Kansas City Royals 22
A.J. Burnett .556 (.55556) Toronto Blue Jays 23
Daisuke Matsuzaka .556 (.55556) Boston Red Sox  
Jeremy Bonderman .550 (.55000) Detroit Tigers 25



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.

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.

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).
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