That's what just happened with Billy Wagner. Wagner ... His 2.31 career ERA was just a fraction above Mariano Rivera's (the only unanimous Hall of Famer). Wagner struck out 11.9 batters per ...
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.
Former Phillies closer Billy Wagner elected to Hall of Fame ... ranking alongside Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman in every closer category between 1996 to 2010. He was ahead of his time.
The bad news is that Andruw Jones will have to wait at least one more year. The good news is that he is on a path similar to the one traveled by former Braves closer Billy Wagner, one of the ...
Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for the Hall, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. Quite the journey ... by the classic era ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki could become the first Japanese player in baseball's Hall of Fame, and CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner and Carlos Beltrán ... Suzuki could join Mariano Rivera as the only ...
Sabathia was on 342 ballots and Wagner on 325, which was 29 more than ... voted in last month by the classic era committee. Mariano Rivera remained the only player to get 100% of the vote from ...
22 (UPI) --Ichiro Suzuki, C.C. Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected as the newest ... the second-highest in history, trailing only Mariano Rivera, the only unanimous selection.