5 pitchers were tied for winning the most games by a relief pitcher in a season in 1997, with 10 wins. The first three are T.J. Mathews, Danny Patterson and Arthur Rhodes.

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Data note: Pitcher Wins: player game data complete from 1901
Data note: Data: Retrosheet

	NAME	W	SEASON	TM	L	W%	G	GS	ERA	SO	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	GF	IBB	TBF	WP	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	H/9
1	T.J. Mathews	10	1997	TOT	6	.625	64	0	3.01	70	0	0	3	74.2	75	25	32	9	30	2	26	4	329	1	8.44	3.62	2.33	1.08	21.3	9.1	1.41	.303	3.86	9.04
2	Danny Patterson D. Patterson	10	1997	TEX	6	.625	54	0	3.42	69	0	0	1	71.0	70	27	29	3	23	0	17	4	296	7	8.75	2.92	3.00	0.38	23.3	7.8	1.31	.333	3.68	8.87
3	Arthur Rhodes A. Rhodes	10	1997	BAL	3	.769	53	0	3.02	102	0	0	1	95.1	75	32	32	9	26	4	6	5	378	2	9.63	2.45	3.92	0.85	27.0	6.9	1.06	.278	3.02	7.08
4	Bobby Ayala B. Ayala	10	1997	SEA	5	.667	71	0	3.82	92	0	0	8	96.2	91	41	45	14	41	3	33	3	403	6	8.57	3.82	2.24	1.30	22.8	10.2	1.37	.304	4.19	8.47
5	Roberto Hernandez R. Hernandez	10	1997	TOT	3	.769	74	0	2.45	82	0	0	31	80.2	67	22	24	7	38	1	50	5	340	3	9.15	4.24	2.16	0.78	24.1	11.2	1.30	.283	2.68	7.48
6	Aaron Small A. Small	9	1997	OAK	5	.643	71	0	4.28	57	0	0	4	96.2	109	46	50	6	40	3	22	6	425	4	5.31	3.72	1.43	0.56	13.4	9.4	1.54	.323	4.66	10.15
7	Marc Wilkins M. Wilkins	9	1997	PIT	5	.643	70	0	3.69	47	0	0	2	75.2	65	31	33	7	33	4	21	2	310	5	5.59	3.93	1.42	0.83	15.2	10.6	1.30	.265	3.93	7.73
8	Robb Nen R. Nen	9	1997	FLA	3	.750	73	0	3.89	81	0	0	35	74.0	72	32	35	7	40	0	65	7	332	5	9.85	4.86	2.03	0.85	24.4	12.0	1.51	.319	4.26	8.76
9	Cory Lidle C. Lidle	7	1997	NYM	1	.875	52	0	3.13	50	0	0	2	74.2	74	26	30	7	20	1	20	4	311	1	6.03	2.41	2.50	0.84	16.1	6.4	1.26	.288	3.62	8.92
10	Bob Wickman B. Wickman	7	1997	MIL	6	.538	74	0	2.73	78	0	0	1	95.2	89	29	32	8	41	3	20	7	405	8	7.34	3.86	1.90	0.75	19.3	10.1	1.36	.295	3.01	8.37
11	Rod Beck R. Beck	7	1997	SFG	4	.636	73	0	3.47	53	0	0	37	70.0	67	27	31	7	8	2	66	2	281	1	6.81	1.03	6.63	0.90	18.9	2.8	1.07	.284	3.99	8.61
12	Darren Holmes D. Holmes	7	1997	COL	2	.778	36	0	4.84	40	0	0	3	57.2	74	31	33	7	25	0	10	3	263	3	6.24	3.90	1.60	1.09	15.2	9.5	1.72	.351	5.15	11.55
13	Greg McMichael G. McMichael	7	1997	NYM	10	.412	73	0	2.98	81	0	0	7	87.2	73	29	34	8	27	2	23	6	355	5	8.32	2.77	3.00	0.82	22.8	7.6	1.14	.274	3.49	7.49
14	Jay Powell J. Powell	7	1997	FLA	2	.778	74	0	3.28	65	0	0	2	79.2	71	29	35	3	30	4	23	3	337	3	7.34	3.39	2.17	0.34	19.3	8.9	1.27	.289	3.95	8.02
15	Greg Swindell G. Swindell	7	1997	MIN	3	.700	64	0	3.29	72	0	0	1	112.0	96	41	41	10	24	2	12	3	441	0	5.79	1.93	3.00	0.80	16.3	5.4	1.07	.258	3.29	7.71
16	Billy Wagner B. Wagner	7	1997	HOU	8	.467	62	0	2.85	106	0	0	23	66.1	49	21	23	5	30	3	49	1	277	3	14.38	4.07	3.53	0.68	38.3	10.8	1.19	.331	3.12	6.65
17	John Wetteland J. Wetteland	7	1997	TEX	2	.778	61	0	1.94	63	0	0	31	65.0	43	14	18	5	21	0	58	3	259	1	8.72	2.91	3.00	0.69	24.3	8.1	0.98	.224	2.49	5.95
18	Doug Jones D. Jones	6	1997	MIL	6	.500	75	0	2.02	82	0	0	36	80.1	62	18	20	4	9	3	73	1	307	2	9.19	1.01	9.11	0.45	26.7	2.9	0.88	.278	2.24	6.95
19	Paul Quantrill P. Quantrill	6	1997	TOR	7	.462	77	0	1.94	56	0	0	5	88.0	103	19	25	5	17	1	29	3	373	1	5.73	1.74	3.29	0.51	15.0	4.6	1.36	.333	2.56	10.53
20	Trevor Hoffman T. Hoffman	6	1997	SDP	4	.600	70	0	2.66	111	0	0	37	81.1	59	24	25	9	24	0	59	4	322	7	12.28	2.66	4.63	1.00	34.5	7.5	1.02	.281	2.77	6.53
21	Jesse Orosco J. Orosco	6	1997	BAL	3	.667	71	0	2.32	46	0	0	0	50.1	29	13	13	6	30	0	12	0	205	1	8.23	5.36	1.53	1.07	22.4	14.6	1.17	.187	2.32	5.19
22	Mariano Rivera M. Rivera	6	1997	NYY	4	.600	66	0	1.88	68	0	0	43	71.2	65	15	17	5	20	0	56	6	301	2	8.54	2.51	3.40	0.63	22.6	6.6	1.19	.288	2.13	8.16
23	Rich DeLucia R. DeLucia	6	1997	TOT	4	.600	36	0	3.89	44	0	0	3	44.0	35	19	21	5	27	1	13	2	186	2	9.00	5.52	1.63	1.02	23.7	14.5	1.41	.275	4.30	7.16
24	Mike Stanton M. Stanton	6	1997	NYY	1	.857	64	0	2.57	70	0	0	3	66.2	50	19	19	3	34	3	15	2	283	3	9.45	4.59	2.06	0.41	24.7	12.0	1.26	.272	2.57	6.75
25	Julian Tavarez J. Tavarez	6	1997	SFG	4	.600	89	0	3.87	38	0	0	0	88.1	91	38	43	6	34	4	13	5	378	4	3.87	3.46	1.12	0.61	10.1	9.0	1.42	.287	4.38	9.27

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