1997 Winning Percentage Leaders Top 25 in the National League
Name	Winning Percentage	Team	Rank
Greg Maddux	.826 (.82609)	Atlanta Braves	1
Denny Neagle	.800 (.80000)	Atlanta Braves	2
Shawn Estes	.792 (.79167)	San Francisco Giants	3
Darryl Kile	.731 (.73077)	Houston Astros	4
Kirk Rueter	.684 (.68421)	San Francisco Giants	5
Pedro Martinez	.680 (.68000)	Montreal Expos	6
Kevin Brown	.667 (.66667)	Florida Marlins	7
Tom Glavine	.667 (.66667)	Atlanta Braves
Mark Clark	.636 (.63636)	New York Mets	9
		Chicago Cubs
Chan Ho Park	.636 (.63636)	Los Angeles Dodgers
Joey Hamilton	.632 (.63158)	San Diego Padres	11
Bobby Jones	.625 (.62500)	New York Mets	12
Curt Schilling	.607 (.60714)	Philadelphia Phillies	13
Mike Hampton	.600 (.60000)	Houston Astros	14
Rick Reed	.591 (.59091)	New York Mets	15
Andy Benes	.588 (.58824)	St. Louis Cardinals	16
Alex Fernandez	.586 (.58621)	Florida Marlins	17
Francisco Cordova	.579 (.57895)	Pittsburgh Pirates	18
Mark Gardner	.571 (.57143)	San Francisco Giants	19
Matt Morris	.571 (.57143)	St. Louis Cardinals
Todd Stottlemyre	.571 (.57143)	St. Louis Cardinals
John Smoltz	.556 (.55556)	Atlanta Braves	22
Pedro Astacio	.545 (.54545)	Los Angeles Dodgers	23
		Colorado Rockies
Hideo Nomo	.538 (.53846)	Los Angeles Dodgers	24
Jason Schmidt	.526 (.52632)	Pittsburgh Pirates	25
Name	Winning Percentage	Team	Rank

	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).