Billy Wagner is approaching the peak in his climb ... Trevor Hoffman in 2018 and Mariano Rivera the following year. Although ...

Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina and Mariano Rivera earned election ... Scott Rolen and Billy Wagner. Unless one is moved by 2020 ballot rookies Bobby Abreu, Alfonso Soriano, Cliff ...

Former Phillies closer Billy Wagner elected to Hall of Fame ... ranking alongside Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman in every ...

This is it for Billy Wagner on the BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot ... trailing the Gold Standards of his generation -- Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman -- greatly. If you put his rate stats beside ...

Billy Wagner knows a lot about teetering on the ... independent pitching — of any Hall of Fame reliever not named Mariano Rivera. He pitched in the steroid era, and had a career ERA+ of 187 ...

Players eligible for the Hall of Fame must appear on 75-plus percent of ballots to secure induction, a bar that eluded Wagner in recent years. But the seven-time All-Star continues to make ...

For Billy Wagner, once more ... received 99.7%of the vote, preserving Mariano Rivera as the Hall’s only unanimous selection. Sabathia, the enduring left-handed pitcher who totaled 251 wins ...

NEW YORK — In Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner, the Baseball Writers ... who missed by one vote of equaling Mariano Rivera’s perfection in 2017. He’s expected to draw record ...

Rivera, who was inducted in 2019 ... 101 saves with the Mets before being traded to Boston in August of 2009. Billy Wagner saved 101 games with the Mets from 2006-09. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected Tuesday along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.