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Mariano Rivera [2] [3] [4] is the all-time leader in saves with 652. Rivera and Trevor Hoffman [5] are the only pitchers in MLB history to save more than 600 career games. Lee Smith, [6] Kenley Jansen, [7] Craig Kimbrel, [8] Francisco Rodríguez, [9] John Franco, [10] and Billy Wagner [11] are the only other pitchers to save more than 400 games ...
The process of preventing a ball from crossing the line is known as a save. In National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I soccer, where a player's career is at most four seasons long, it is considered a notable achievement to reach the 450-save threshold. In even rarer instances, players have reached the 500 and 600-save plateaus.
The term save was being used as far back as 1952. [4] Executives Jim Toomey of the St. Louis Cardinals and Irv Kaze of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and statistician Allan Roth of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers awarded saves to pitchers who finished winning games but were not credited with the win, regardless of the margin of victory.
MLB recognizes the player or players in each league with the most saves each season. In retrospect, the five saves by Jack Manning meant he led the National League in its inaugural year, while Bill Hoffer was the American League's first saves champion with three. [4] Mordecai Brown was the first pitcher to record at least 10 saves in a season.
Rollie Fingers was the first player to record 300 saves, reaching the mark on August 21, 1982. Aroldis Chapman is the most recent, achieving his 300th on August 26, 2021. The New York Mets are the only franchise to see three players reach the milestone while on their roster— John Franco , Billy Wagner , and Jason Isringhausen .
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
This is a list of players who have appeared in 400 or more games in Major League Soccer, the top flight men's soccer league of the United States and Canada, dating back to its inaugural season in 1996. This list does not include appearances in the MLS Cup playoffs.
Trevor Hoffman is ranked fifth in Major League Baseball for most saves in a single season, while ranking second in all-time saves, recording 601 over his 18-year career (552 as a member of the Padres). [3] [4] Offensively, Gwynn has the 18th highest hit total in Major League history, recording 3,141 hits over a 19-year Major League career. [5]