Bruce Sutter had the most saves in 1979, with 37 saves.

Interpreted as:

most total saves by a player from 1970 and 1979

	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	Bruce Sutter B. Sutter	37	1979	CHC	62	6	6	.500	0	2.22	110	0	0	101.1	67	25	29	3	32	0	56	5	403	9	9.77	2.84	3.44	0.27	27.3	7.9	0.98	.248	2.58	54	1.88	48	5.95	22.5
2	Mike Marshall M. Marshall	32	1979	MIN	90	10	15	.400	1	2.65	81	0	0	142.2	132	42	47	8	48	4	84	2	586	8	5.11	3.03	1.69	0.50	13.8	8.2	1.26	.279	2.96	61	3.41	81	8.33	12.3
3	Kent Tekulve K. Tekulve	31	1979	PIT	94	10	8	.556	0	2.75	75	0	0	134.1	109	41	46	5	49	2	67	20	550	4	5.02	3.28	1.53	0.33	13.6	8.9	1.18	.248	3.08	72	3.23	84	7.30	9.2
4	Jim Kern J. Kern	29	1979	TEX	71	13	5	.722	0	1.57	136	0	0	143.0	99	25	35	5	62	2	57	6	578	5	8.56	3.90	2.19	0.31	23.5	10.7	1.13	.252	2.20	38	2.61	64	6.23	23.4
5	Gene Garber G. Garber	25	1979	ATL	68	6	16	.273	0	4.33	56	0	0	106.0	121	51	66	10	24	5	55	9	461	0	4.75	2.04	2.33	0.85	12.1	5.2	1.37	.303	5.60	107	3.71	90	10.27	4.8
6	Joe Sambito J. Sambito	22	1979	HOU	63	8	7	.533	0	1.77	83	0	0	91.1	80	18	20	8	23	4	51	4	375	0	8.18	2.27	3.61	0.79	22.1	6.1	1.13	.280	1.97	51	2.93	83	7.88	6.3
7	Aurelio Lopez A. Lopez	21	1979	DET	61	10	5	.667	0	2.41	106	0	0	127.0	95	34	37	12	51	3	49	3	519	3	7.51	3.61	2.08	0.85	20.4	9.8	1.15	.239	2.62	55	3.55	82	6.73	11.1
8	Don Stanhouse D. Stanhouse	21	1979	BAL	52	7	3	.700	0	2.85	34	0	0	72.2	49	23	24	4	51	1	46	7	307	2	4.21	6.32	0.67	0.50	11.1	16.6	1.38	.207	2.97	71	4.65	113	6.07	-4.6
9	Gary Lavelle G. Lavelle	20	1979	SFG	70	7	9	.438	0	2.51	80	0	0	96.2	86	27	31	5	42	2	55	15	407	2	7.45	3.91	1.90	0.47	19.7	10.3	1.32	.291	2.89	69	3.10	86	8.01	5.5
10	Sid Monge S. Monge	19	1979	CLE	76	12	10	.545	0	2.40	108	0	0	131.0	96	35	37	9	64	1	53	8	542	9	7.42	4.40	1.69	0.62	19.9	11.8	1.22	.242	2.54	58	3.45	83	6.60	10.6
11	Rich Gossage R. Gossage	18	1979	NYY	36	5	3	.625	0	2.62	41	0	0	58.1	48	17	18	5	19	0	33	4	234	3	6.33	2.93	2.16	0.77	17.5	8.1	1.15	.254	2.78	64	3.41	82	7.41	4.8
12	Elias Sosa E. Sosa	18	1979	MON	62	8	7	.533	0	1.96	59	0	0	96.2	77	21	24	2	37	2	41	11	396	1	5.49	3.44	1.59	0.19	14.9	9.3	1.18	.253	2.23	53	2.98	81	7.17	7.7
13	Tom Hume T. Hume	17	1979	CIN	57	10	9	.526	12	2.76	80	2	0	163.0	162	50	54	12	33	0	33	9	669	2	4.42	1.82	2.42	0.66	12.0	4.9	1.20	.276	2.98	74	3.30	87	8.94	9.1
14	Doug Bair D. Bair	16	1979	CIN	65	11	7	.611	0	4.29	86	0	0	94.1	93	45	47	7	51	3	42	12	430	3	8.20	4.87	1.69	0.67	20.0	11.9	1.53	.304	4.48	115	3.58	94	8.87	2.4
15	Tug McGraw T. McGraw	16	1979	PHI	65	4	3	.571	1	5.16	57	0	0	83.2	83	48	56	9	29	2	43	7	357	2	6.13	3.12	1.97	0.97	16.0	8.1	1.34	.285	6.02	134	3.87	101	8.93	-0.1
16	Mark Clear M. Clear	14	1979	CAL	52	11	5	.688	0	3.63	98	0	0	109.0	87	44	48	6	68	3	37	5	481	9	8.09	5.61	1.44	0.50	20.4	14.1	1.42	.265	3.96	89	3.59	88	7.18	6.2
17	Ed Farmer E. Farmer	14	1979	TOT	53	5	7	.417	5	2.99	73	0	0	114.1	96	38	57	4	53	3	35	10	491	9	5.75	4.17	1.38	0.31	14.9	10.8	1.30	.257	4.49	72	3.37	82	7.56	9.5
18	Grant Jackson G. Jackson	14	1979	PIT	72	8	5	.615	0	2.96	39	0	0	82.0	67	27	32	9	35	2	29	5	339	3	4.28	3.84	1.11	0.99	11.5	10.3	1.24	.228	3.51	78	4.55	118	7.35	-6.2
19	Byron McLaughlin B. McLaughlin	14	1979	SEA	47	7	7	.500	7	4.22	74	1	0	123.2	114	58	58	13	60	2	31	8	529	10	5.39	4.37	1.23	0.95	14.0	11.3	1.41	.266	4.22	98	4.39	99	8.30	0.9
20	Dick Drago D. Drago	13	1979	BOS	53	10	6	.625	1	3.03	67	0	0	89.0	85	30	33	6	21	3	37	6	367	4	6.78	2.12	3.19	0.61	18.3	5.7	1.19	.293	3.34	67	2.90	67	8.60	13.7
21	Rollie Fingers R. Fingers	13	1979	SDP	54	9	9	.500	0	4.52	65	0	0	83.2	91	42	47	7	37	1	41	8	372	2	6.99	3.98	1.76	0.75	17.5	9.9	1.53	.321	5.06	129	3.62	100	9.79	-0.2
22	Mark Littell M. Littell	13	1979	STL	63	9	4	.692	0	2.19	67	0	0	82.1	60	20	22	2	39	0	40	5	342	7	7.32	4.26	1.72	0.22	19.6	11.4	1.20	.248	2.40	59	2.83	77	6.56	7.6
23	Sparky Lyle S. Lyle	13	1979	TEX	67	5	8	.385	0	3.13	48	0	0	95.0	78	33	37	9	28	0	53	6	384	2	4.55	2.65	1.71	0.85	12.5	7.3	1.12	.231	3.51	76	3.82	94	7.39	2.4
24	Al Hrabosky A. Hrabosky	11	1979	KCR	58	9	4	.692	0	3.74	39	0	0	65.0	67	27	31	3	41	1	37	10	294	7	5.40	5.68	0.95	0.42	13.3	13.9	1.66	.305	4.29	88	4.06	99	9.28	0.2
25	Shane Rawley S. Rawley	11	1979	SEA	48	5	9	.357	3	3.84	48	0	0	84.1	88	36	40	2	40	1	30	5	364	5	5.12	4.27	1.20	0.21	13.2	11.0	1.52	.315	4.27	89	3.35	76	9.39	9.9