Monday, May 25, 2020

List of baseball pitchers with at least 50 saves in a season


Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Toasterb
Photo license: CC BY-SA 3.0

This post is a list of baseball pitchers who have had at least 50 saves in a season in the MLB as of May 25th, 2020. There are 17 seasons listed below. The photo above is Francisco Rodriguez in 2007. Data source: Baseball-reference.com

62 saves
Francisco Rodriguez (2008)

57 saves
Bobby Thigpen (1990)
Edwin Diaz (2018)

55 saves
John Smoltz (2002)
Eric Gagne (2003)

53 saves
Randy Myers (1993)
Trevor Hoffman (1998)
Mariano Rivera (2004)

52 saves
Eric Gagne (2002)

51 saves
Dennis Eckersley (1992)
Rod Beck (1998)
Jim Johnson (2012)
Mark Melancon (2015)
Jeurys Familia (2016)

50 saves
Mariano Rivera (2001)
Jim Johnson (2013)
Craig Kimbrel (2013)