Francisco Rodriguez has the most saves in a season, with 62 saves in 2008.

Interpreted as:

most saves by a player in an MLB season by a closer

	NAME	SV	SEASON	TM	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	SO	CG	SHO	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	GF	IBB	TBF	WP	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	ERA-	FIP	FIP-	H/9	PRAA
1	Francisco Rodriguez F. Rodriguez	62	2008	LAA	76	2	3	.400	0	2.24	77	0	0	68.1	54	17	21	4	34	2	69	4	288	6	10.14	4.48	2.26	0.53	26.7	11.8	1.29	.292	2.77	52	3.21	75	7.11	8.1
2	Edwin Díaz E. Díaz	57	2018	SEA	73	0	4	.000	0	1.96	124	0	0	73.1	41	16	17	5	17	6	65	0	280	3	15.22	2.09	7.29	0.61	44.3	6.1	0.79	.281	2.09	48	1.60	38	5.03	21.3
3	Bobby Thigpen B. Thigpen	57	1990	CWS	77	4	6	.400	0	1.83	70	0	0	88.2	60	18	20	5	32	1	73	3	347	2	7.11	3.25	2.19	0.51	20.2	9.2	1.04	.230	2.03	47	3.07	80	6.09	7.6
4	Eric Gagne E. Gagne	55	2003	LAD	77	2	3	.400	0	1.20	137	0	0	82.1	37	11	12	2	20	3	67	2	306	2	14.98	2.19	6.85	0.22	44.8	6.5	0.69	.243	1.31	30	0.85	20	4.04	31.8
5	John Smoltz J. Smoltz	55	2002	ATL	75	3	2	.600	0	3.25	85	0	0	80.1	59	29	30	4	24	0	68	1	314	1	9.52	2.69	3.54	0.45	27.1	7.6	1.03	.274	3.36	80	2.38	57	6.61	16.2
6	Mariano Rivera M. Rivera	53	2004	NYY	74	4	2	.667	0	1.94	66	0	0	78.2	65	17	17	3	20	5	69	3	316	0	7.55	2.29	3.30	0.34	20.9	6.3	1.08	.279	1.94	43	2.81	63	7.44	14.6
7	Trevor Hoffman T. Hoffman	53	1998	SDP	66	4	2	.667	0	1.48	86	0	0	73.0	41	12	12	2	21	1	61	2	274	8	10.60	2.59	4.10	0.25	31.4	7.7	0.85	.238	1.48	37	2.04	49	5.05	17.8
8	Randy Myers R. Myers	53	1993	CHC	73	2	4	.333	0	3.11	86	0	0	75.1	65	26	26	7	26	1	69	2	313	3	10.27	3.11	3.31	0.84	27.5	8.3	1.21	.301	3.11	76	2.98	72	7.77	9.5
9	Eric Gagne E. Gagne	52	2002	LAD	77	4	1	.800	0	1.97	114	0	0	82.1	55	18	18	6	16	2	68	4	314	1	12.46	1.75	7.13	0.66	36.3	5.1	0.86	.278	1.97	51	1.79	43	6.01	21.8
10	Jeurys Familia J. Familia	51	2016	NYM	78	3	4	.429	0	2.55	84	0	0	77.2	63	22	25	1	31	1	67	6	321	3	9.73	3.59	2.71	0.12	26.2	9.7	1.21	.304	2.90	65	2.38	59	7.30	14.6
11	Mark Melancon M. Melancon	51	2015	PIT	78	3	2	.600	0	2.23	62	0	0	76.2	57	19	22	4	14	2	63	2	293	3	7.28	1.64	4.43	0.47	21.2	4.8	0.93	.251	2.58	58	2.81	74	6.69	8.5
12	Jim Johnson J. Johnson	51	2012	BAL	71	2	1	.667	0	2.49	41	0	0	68.2	55	19	21	3	15	3	63	1	269	1	5.37	1.97	2.73	0.39	15.2	5.6	1.02	.251	2.75	60	3.25	76	7.21	7.8
13	Rod Beck R. Beck	51	1998	CHC	81	3	4	.429	0	3.02	81	0	0	80.1	86	27	33	11	20	2	70	4	349	2	9.07	2.24	4.05	1.23	23.2	5.7	1.32	.319	3.70	71	3.72	86	9.63	5.6
14	Dennis Eckersley D. Eckersley	51	1992	OAK	69	7	1	.875	0	1.91	93	0	0	80.0	62	17	17	5	11	1	65	6	309	0	10.46	1.24	8.45	0.56	30.1	3.6	0.91	.286	1.91	52	1.71	44	6.98	19.4
15	Jim Johnson J. Johnson	50	2013	BAL	74	3	8	.273	0	2.94	56	0	0	70.1	72	23	26	5	18	7	63	4	291	2	7.17	2.30	3.11	0.64	19.2	6.2	1.28	.327	3.33	72	3.44	84	9.21	5.2
16	Craig Kimbrel C. Kimbrel	50	2013	ATL	68	4	3	.571	0	1.21	98	0	0	67.0	39	9	10	4	20	3	60	2	258	3	13.16	2.69	4.90	0.54	38.0	7.8	0.88	.263	1.34	33	1.92	53	5.24	13.2
17	Mariano Rivera M. Rivera	50	2001	NYY	71	4	6	.400	0	2.34	83	0	0	80.2	61	21	24	5	12	1	66	2	310	1	9.26	1.34	6.92	0.56	26.8	3.9	0.90	.268	2.68	53	2.27	51	6.81	19.3
18	Jose Valverde J. Valverde	49	2011	DET	75	2	4	.333	0	2.24	69	0	0	72.1	52	18	21	5	34	3	70	4	301	3	8.59	4.23	2.03	0.62	22.9	11.3	1.19	.247	2.61	54	3.54	88	6.47	4
19	Francisco Cordero F. Cordero	49	2004	TEX	67	3	4	.429	0	2.13	79	0	0	71.2	60	17	19	1	32	1	63	2	304	3	9.92	4.02	2.47	0.13	26.0	10.5	1.28	.309	2.39	43	2.40	52	7.53	17.5
20	Trevor Rosenthal T. Rosenthal	48	2015	STL	68	2	4	.333	0	2.10	83	0	0	68.2	62	16	16	3	25	1	57	3	287	7	10.88	3.28	3.32	0.39	28.9	8.7	1.27	.337	2.10	55	2.41	63	8.13	10.9
21	Fernando Rodney F. Rodney	48	2014	SEA	69	1	6	.143	0	2.85	76	0	0	66.1	61	21	24	3	28	3	64	3	286	4	10.31	3.80	2.71	0.41	26.6	9.8	1.34	.330	3.26	78	2.83	76	8.28	6.6
22	Fernando Rodney F. Rodney	48	2012	TBR	76	2	2	.500	0	0.60	76	0	0	74.2	43	5	9	2	15	3	65	1	282	4	9.16	1.81	5.07	0.24	27.0	5.3	0.78	.220	1.08	16	2.12	52	5.18	16.2
23	Brian Wilson B. Wilson	48	2010	SFG	70	3	3	.500	0	1.81	93	0	0	74.2	62	15	16	3	26	1	59	5	311	0	11.21	3.13	3.58	0.36	29.9	8.4	1.18	.314	1.93	47	2.19	57	7.47	14.3
24	Brian Fuentes B. Fuentes	48	2009	LAA	65	1	5	.167	0	3.93	46	0	0	55.0	53	24	24	6	24	5	57	2	242	1	7.53	3.93	1.92	0.98	19.0	9.9	1.40	.292	3.93	89	4.41	101	8.67	-0.3
25	Jeff Shaw J. Shaw	48	1998	TOT	73	3	8	.273	0	2.12	55	0	0	85.0	75	20	22	8	19	1	69	5	339	0	5.82	2.01	2.89	0.85	16.2	5.6	1.11	.262	2.33	51	3.77	88	7.94	5.1