List of Major League Baseball career saves leaders

In baseball statistics, a relief pitcher is credited with a save (denoted by SV) who finishes a game for the winning team under certain prescribed circumstances. Most commonly a pitcher earns a save by entering in the ninth inning of a game in which his team is winning by three or fewer runs and finishing the game by pitching one inning without losing the lead.^[1]

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. Kenley Jansen,^[6] Lee Smith,^[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 in their careers.