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

Billy Wagner only spent one season of his MLB career ... "The standard for Hall of Fame closers is basically: Column A) Mariano Rivera … and Column B) everybody else," wrote Stark.

Billy Wagner has had a year to think about his ... lowest for a player with at least 900 innings thrown behind only Mariano Rivera. He had nine seasons with at least 30 saves, including with ...

Now stepping into the batter's box against Mariano Rivera ... the only question is by how much. Billy Wagner saved 101 games in four seasons with the Mets. Credit: Newsday/Kathy Kmonicek ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

Billy Wagner has been elected to the National Baseball ... The slender, 5-foot-10 lefty was the best non-Mariano-Rivera reliever in baseball from 1997-03, a time in which Wagner posted a 2.55 ...

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 ...