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

Only three have been elected since 2009 − Trevor Hoffman (2018), Mariano Rivera (2019) and Lee Smith (2019). Billy Wagner, a flame-throwing left-hander and one of baseball's elite closers during ...

I didn’t vote for Billy Wagner. But although I don ... In other cases, they fall second only to Mariano Rivera. Wagner obviously is a baseball great, one of the top 10 relievers ever.

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 ...

This week marked the unveiling of the 2024 Hall of Fame ballot, with legendary Astros closer Billy ... Mariano Rivera in WHIP, ERA and ERA+, with his 422 saves ranking fourth all-time. Wagner ...

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 ...

Billy Wagner won’t be picking up the phone when ... who also started). Taking Mariano Rivera out of the equation — because no one was Rivera — Wagner has a better ERA than any of the ...

Billy Wagner coaches baseball at the Miller School ... Wagner ranks sixth on the career saves list with 422, behind Mariano Rivera, Trevor Hoffman and Lee Smith, who are in, and Francisco ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.