In electing Wagner, the BBWAA has defined the modern-day closer as its own entity, with candidates’ credentials measured not ...

The Athletic's Jayson Stark took a deep dive into the Hall of Fame chances for a couple modern day closers with Billy Wagner receiving enshrinement this year.

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

Billy Wagner is here to compete with eight relievers including Goose Gossage, Mariano Rivera, Hoyt Wilhelm, Trevor Hoffman, Dennis Eckersley, Rollie Fingers, Bruce Sutter, and Lee Smith. One of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.