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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)